G'day,

Jim McLean,

I'm having to cast my mind back somewhere in 9 years and 3633 postings for information that came up when I was looking at the sources for the tune Dion Boucicault borrowed for his song. I only remember noting that it was another of the tunes set to one of Tannahill's verses - as was Bonny Wood of Craigielea, the ancestral tune to Waltzing Matilda. This time round, I find quite a few counter claims for the tune itself ... suggesting it had already done service for several other Scottish songs.

If I troll through enough of those old posts ... I might remember which of Tannahill's songs is associated ... or not ...

Joybell & Muttley:

My Quinn ancestor seems to have moved north ... by the Goldrush era Jane-Anne was around the NSW Turon field, since she married a Dutch sailor in Bathurst, 1854 ... and 20 years later, around the time of the "Kelly Outbreak", she and her husband were in Sydney - running an "hostel for Merchant Navy officers". There are no first-hand family secrets passed down, at this end of the family, about Ned and his clan!

Regard(les)s,

Bob