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Description: | Tale of a boy who is orphaned in a shipwreck. The boy eventually finds some sympathetic people to take him in. The song also features in 'Folk songs of Northumberland', Polworth, 1966.The song forms part of a nineteenth century manuscript held at Gosforth Records Office. In 1855 the first attempt at a large-scale regional survey of traditional song to be made in the country was put into action. It would be almost thirty years until this work would be published under the title of the Northumbrian Minstrelsy and during the intervening years the Ancient Melodies Committee set about collecting songs and tunes from local musicians, composers and other collectors. This manuscript, by Thomas Hepple of Kirkwhelpington, was sent to the Committee following an appeal by the Duke of Northumberland. The Duke, having been approached by the Committee, offered prizes of ��10 and ��5 for the two best collections of ancient Northumbrian music in score. Hepple's collection of songs appears to have been the only set of Northumbrian music to have been entered. It was nevertheless warmly received by the Committee, who included Hepple's fine Whittingham Fair in their final publication. Two more songs from this manuscript were later published by Stokoe and Reay but many remain unpublished - we now fortunately have the opportunity to finally see the collection in full ... ; Songs and tunes collected by Thomas Hepple | Rights holder: | rights holder : Society of Antiquaries | Subjects: | Accidents mishaps and disasters & river and sea children & orphans & shipwrecks | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:R0800701 | Go to resource |
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