Well, I tried this last week and the thread vanished. So I will try again.

I am looking for information on the singers whose versions were collected by the early figures of the movement in the last decade of the 19th century and down to, say, the Second World War. Some (Baring-Gould, for example) provided a fair amount of information about their singers, but all too often there is only the basic format: place and date collected, singer's name and age; or even less than that. But there are some published records about these things, and I would be grateful for any references.

Stephen R.