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LADY CHARLOTTE MURRAY [1]. AKA and see "Cat in the Corner (1)," "Felix the Wrestler," "O'Mahoney's Frolics," "O'Shaughnessy's," "Puss in the Corner." Scottish, Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A double-tonic tune composed by Dunkeld, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). The tune honors Lady Charlotte Murray [1] (1731-1805), daughter of the 2nd Duke of Atholl. In 1753, she married her first cousin, John Murray at Dunkeld, Scotland (also home to Niel Gow). John Murray should have ascended to the Dukedom upon the death of the 2nd Duke, however, as his father had fought on the Jacobite side he was prevented from inheriting. Lady Charlotte, however, had ascended to the title of Baron Strange (which could descend through the female line), and thus outranked her husband--for a short while, for in 1764 the House of Lords returned the Dukedom to John and he became the third Duke of Atholl, at which time Lady Charlotte became Duchess.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 341. Gow (First Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 6 (appears as "Lady Charlotte Murray's (now Drummond) Jig").

Recorded sources: Banff Rodeo RBS 1066, Dan Joe MacInnis - "The Cape Breton Fiddle of Dan Joe MacInnis" (c. 1961).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]

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-'''LADY CHARLOTTE MURRAY [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Cat in the Corner (1)]]," "[[Felix the Wrestler]]," "[[O'Mahoney's Frolics]]," "[[O'Shaughnessy's]]," "[[Puss in the Corner]]." Scottish, Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A double-tonic tune composed by Dunkeld, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). The tune honors Lady Charlotte Murray (1754-1808), daughter of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl. She married twice, firstly, in 1797, to Sir John Menzies, 4th Bt., who died three years later, the union producing no children. Secondly, in Perthshire in 1801, she married Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, 7th of Megginch. Admiral Drummond and Lady Charlotte planted trees at the estate of Megginch, and collected daffodil bulbs in Brussels and Paris, and she also laid out the formal front parterre in 1835, planting it with striking holly and yew topiary. The garden she improved has been tended by successive generations of the family.
+'''LADY CHARLOTTE MURRAY [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Cat in the Corner (1)]]," "[[Felix the Wrestler]]," "[[O'Mahoney's Frolics]]," "[[O'Shaughnessy's]]," "[[Puss in the Corner]]." Scottish, Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A double-tonic tune composed by Dunkeld, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). The tune honors Lady Charlotte Murray [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Murray,_Duchess_of_Atholl] (1731-1805), daughter of the 2nd Duke of Atholl. In 1753, she married her first cousin, John Murray at Dunkeld, Scotland (also home to Niel Gow). John Murray should have ascended to the Dukedom upon the death of the 2nd Duke, however, as his father had fought on the Jacobite side he was prevented from inheriting. Lady Charlotte, however, had ascended to the title of Baron Strange (which could descend through the female line), and thus outranked her husband--for a short while, for in 1764 the House of Lords returned the Dukedom to John and he became the third Duke of Atholl, at which time Lady Charlotte became Duchess.
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