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|f_annotation='''MRS. PETERKIN OF GRANGE HALL'S REEL.'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Peterkin of Grange Hall's Reel" was composed by Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, fiddler-composer, dancing master and postmaster [[biography:William Christie]] (1778-1849).  Grange Hall, Parish of Kinloss, Moray, northeast Scotland, is a country house and associated grounds, built in 1805 and said to have been originally designed by William Stark of Edinburgh.  There is some confusion about whether the estate was originally purchased by John Gordon Peterkin in circa 1800 or by his father, but one of the Peterkins built the mansion house. Unfortunately, the money for the estate probably derived in part from slave-ownership. The estate of Chatham in St. James, Jamaica, was owned by the Peterkin family and was run by the father's brother, Alexander, in 1817. It is not clear how much interest John Gordon Peterkin took in the Jamaican property<ref>Site: "Legacies of British Slave-ownership" [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644295 ] </ref>.  
|f_annotation='''MRS. PETERKIN OF GRANGE HALL'S REEL.'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Peterkin of Grange Hall's Reel" was composed by Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, fiddler-composer, dancing master and postmaster [[biography:William Christie]] (1778-1849).  Grange Hall, Parish of Kinloss, Moray, northeast Scotland, is a country house and associated grounds, built in 1805 and said to have been originally designed by William Stark of Edinburgh.  There is some confusion about whether the estate was originally purchased by John Gordon Peterkin in circa 1800 or by his father, but one of the Peterkins built the mansion house. Unfortunately, the money for the estate probably derived in part from slave-ownership. The estate of Chatham in St. James, Jamaica, was owned by the Peterkin family and was run by the father's brother, Alexander, in 1817. It is not clear how much interest John Gordon Peterkin took in the Jamaican property<ref>Site: "Legacies of British Slave-ownership" [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644295 ] </ref>.  
 
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Mary Anne would have been aged twelve at the time of Christie's publication, so it can hardly be she who is the "Mrs. Grant" of the title. John Gordon Peterkin and Mary Anne Peterkin's parents were James Peterkin of Grange, Moray, and Ann Gordon, and, if the mother resided with her son at Grange Hall, then perhaps it is she who was "Mrs. Peterkin."<span>Mary Anne (1808-1854), who married Major Grant of Invererne taking the name Grant Peterkin, succeeded her brother when he died in 1832. The estate remains in the Grant Peterkin family.</span>
Mary Anne would have been aged twelve at the time of Christie's publication, so it can hardly be she who is the "Mrs. Grant" of the title. John Gordon Peterkin and Mary Anne Peterkin's parents were James Peterkin of Grange, Moray, and Ann Gordon, and, if the mother resided with her son at Grange Hall, then perhaps it is she who was "Mrs. Peterkin."<span>Mary Anne (1808-1854), who married Major Grant of Invererne taking the name Grant Peterkin, succeeded her brother when he died in 1832. The estate remains in the Grant Peterkin family.</span>
|f_printed_sources=William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.'''), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 39.
|f_printed_sources=William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.'''), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 39.
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MRS. PETERKIN OF GRANGE HALL'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Peterkin of Grange Hall's Reel" was composed by Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, fiddler-composer, dancing master and postmaster biography:William Christie (1778-1849). Grange Hall, Parish of Kinloss, Moray, northeast Scotland, is a country house and associated grounds, built in 1805 and said to have been originally designed by William Stark of Edinburgh. There is some confusion about whether the estate was originally purchased by John Gordon Peterkin in circa 1800 or by his father, but one of the Peterkins built the mansion house. Unfortunately, the money for the estate probably derived in part from slave-ownership. The estate of Chatham in St. James, Jamaica, was owned by the Peterkin family and was run by the father's brother, Alexander, in 1817. It is not clear how much interest John Gordon Peterkin took in the Jamaican property[1].

Mary Anne would have been aged twelve at the time of Christie's publication, so it can hardly be she who is the "Mrs. Grant" of the title. John Gordon Peterkin and Mary Anne Peterkin's parents were James Peterkin of Grange, Moray, and Ann Gordon, and, if the mother resided with her son at Grange Hall, then perhaps it is she who was "Mrs. Peterkin."Mary Anne (1808-1854), who married Major Grant of Invererne taking the name Grant Peterkin, succeeded her brother when he died in 1832. The estate remains in the Grant Peterkin family.


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Printed sources : - William Christie (Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 39.






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  1. Site: "Legacies of British Slave-ownership" [1]