A couple of small points of information. Without looking it up and purely from mmeory I think you will find that the Lallans poet that Jimmy Miller borrowed his name from was actually EVAN and not EWAN MacColl.

He was married to Jean Newlove and not divorced so Alex "married" Peggy to get her into the country.

Hew was a brilliant songwriter. Listen to Sam Larner talking about his life and see how Ewan weaved this into a song (Shoals of Herring); a great scholar (his work with travellers is of the highest order); and a wonderful singer. Some of his renditions of ballads are simply stunning. There were all sorts of things some people might consider faults, virtually all freely acknowledged by Peggy in the introduction to his autobiography "Journeyman".

Dave