May 26, 2006, 12:43 a.m. (Message 45380)
well a little more web surfing has revealed that the person that Tom Mungall found with a last name of Mellinish is actually marked with a question in the record about whether the name might have actually been "Mellinick." In any case the "Mellinish/Mellinick" is cited as an Englishman, which is a bit exasperating for a question of Scottish heritage. He is also surely not the American plasterer that I found in the records of Ohio yesterday, unless he was a very old plasterer. Further web-surfing found that there was an Irish town called "Mount Mellinick." A "mount" might be a very grandiose 'brae' but it seems an odd thing for a Scottish tune and dance to commemerate an obscure Irish town. Now does the Kentigern/Braes of Mellinish jig tune bear any relationship to the Gow tune Major Graham that the RSCDS used for the dance? Musicians?? And why is there no record in Dance Data of the use of any tune under the names Kentigern Jig or The Braes of Mellinish? I guess I'd best get back to doing the work I'm paid for. Bruce Herbold San Francisco Branch