FOCHABERS

WE NEED INFORMATION ABOUT THESE FOCHABERS PEOPLE

Mrs Watson Gray. She lived at Corner House, East Street, Fochabers.
She sang unique versions of two ballads, Willie Mackintosh and The Bonny Earl Of Moray, and others learned in Glenlivet 50 years before. See this page.

Mrs W A Reid, East Neuk, Fochabers
She sang several ballads, including The Shoemaker, The Douglas Tragedy, Lang Johnny More and the Broom O The Cowdenowes

Robert Taylor, Spey Cottage, Inchberry, Fochabers
He sang The Bonny Hoose O Airlie, The Battle Of Harlaw and others

Miss Helen Warwick Burnholme, South Row, Fochabers.

BTW, I am truly puzzled at Carpenter's Fochabers list saying (Worst ever).

Card images and 1931 recordings are used courtesy of the James Madison Carpenter Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.