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'''MR. GUN MUNRO OF POYNTZ-FIELD'''. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Poyntzfield House, Resolie Parish, County Cromarty, was the manor of the Munro family and takes its name from Charlotte Poyntz, the wife of the first George Gun Munro, for whom it was built. Formerly the estate was called Ardoch (The High Place). The title of the tune may refer to Sir George Gun Munro (1788-18), who was the son of Colonel Innes Munro and grandson of Sir George Gun Munro (Charolotte’s husband). The younger George Gun Munro served for many years in the army in India, and, in 1822 married Jamima Charlotte Gramham, daughter of Colonel Colin Dundas Graham. Later he was a major in the Ross-shire militia. Munro received his knighthood around 1842, which means the tune was composed prior. The couple had at least one child, for notice in print gives that a daughter was born in 1824, followed by another notice which gives that she wed at Poyntzfield House in 1849.
'''MR. GUN MUNRO OF POYNTZ-FIELD'''. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled '''A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c.''' (1796, p. 4), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow." Unfortunately, the composers names are not given.  The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.
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Poyntzfield House, Resolie Parish, County Cromarty, was the manor of the Munro family and takes its name from Charlotte (AKA Jemima) Poyntz, the wife of the first George Gun Munro, for whom it was built. Formerly the estate was called Ardoch (The High Place). See note for "[[annotation:Mrs. Gun Monro of Poyntzfield's Fancy]]" for more on the family.
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''Printed sources'':  Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 78.  
''Printed sources'':  Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 78.  
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MR. GUN MUNRO OF POYNTZ-FIELD. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c. (1796, p. 4), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow." Unfortunately, the composers names are not given. The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.

Poyntzfield House, Resolie Parish, County Cromarty, was the manor of the Munro family and takes its name from Charlotte (AKA Jemima) Poyntz, the wife of the first George Gun Munro, for whom it was built. Formerly the estate was called Ardoch (The High Place). See note for "annotation:Mrs. Gun Monro of Poyntzfield's Fancy" for more on the family.

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Printed sources: Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 78.

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