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MRS. RAMSAY OF BARNTON [1]. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title may refer to Betty Hamilton (1770-1809), wife of William Ramsay of Barnton, a wealthy man who was a dominant figure in one of Edinburgh’s two private banks and a very substantial shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 1781 Ramsay bought the estate of Barnton and Cramond Regis (the grounds of what is now Davidson’s Mains Park), demolished the old house and built a grander one on the site. Cramond Regis, the old name for the area, was an ancient hunting seat of Scotland’s kings. It may also have been named for the wife of their son, George Ramsay, the Hon. Jean Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton, 6th of Wishaw and Susan Balfour. The couple wed in 1791.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 190. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pp. 10-11 (3rd ed.).

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-'''MRS. RAMSAY OF BARNTON [1]'''. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title probably refers to Betty Hamilton (1770-1809), wife of William Ramsay of Barnton, a wealthy man who was a dominant figure in one of Edinburgh’s two private banks and a very substantial shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 1781 Ramsay bought the estate of Barnton and Cramond Regis (the grounds of what is now Davidson’s Mains Park), demolished the old house and built a grander one on the site. Cramond Regis, the old name for the area, was an ancient hunting seat of Scotland’s kings.
+'''MRS. RAMSAY OF BARNTON [1]'''. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title may refer to Betty Hamilton (1770-1809), wife of William Ramsay of Barnton, a wealthy man who was a dominant figure in one of Edinburgh’s two private banks and a very substantial shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 1781 Ramsay bought the estate of Barnton and Cramond Regis (the grounds of what is now Davidson’s Mains Park), demolished the old house and built a grander one on the site. Cramond Regis, the old name for the area, was an ancient hunting seat of Scotland’s kings. It may also have been named for the wife of their son, George Ramsay, the Hon. Jean Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton, 6th of Wishaw and Susan Balfour. The couple wed in 1791.
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