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"Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" is an old Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier. It is Child Ballad #46, Roud 36. It is known by a number of titles, including "Lord Roslin's Daughter" and "The Laird of Rosslyn's Daughter".
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Donald Knight Wilgus was an American folk song scholar and academic, most recognized for chronicling 'Hillbilly', blues music and Irish-American song and his contribution to ballad scholarship.
Carmen Roy was an ethnologist and folklorist who conducted a oral survey in the Gaspé Peninsula and served in many roles as curator and section director at Canada's National Museum in Ottawa in the late 1940s through to the 1980s. Working with Marius Barbeau and Luc Lacouciere, she helped build and modernize ethnographic practice in Canada and was considered an early leader in the field of folklore in the country. As an administrator at the National Museum she also helped foster the scholarship of collectors such as Helen Creighton and Edith Fowke.
MacEdward Leach (1892-1967) was an American folklorist, whose work "greatly influenced the development of folklore as an academic discipline".
Carrie Blanche Grover was a Canadian folk singer, fiddler, and folk song collector. She was a recognized authority on folk music, whose songs were recorded for the Library of Congress by both Alan Lomax and Sidney Robertson Cowell.
Eber Carle Perrow was a professor of English in the United states who wrote about the literary history of the last will and testament and southern folk songs. His writings on folk songs were influential.
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- MacKenzie, W.R. (1909). Ballad-singing in Nova Scotia. The Journal of American Folklore (22)85, 327–331.
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- Wilgus, D.K. (1959). Anglo-American folk song scholarship since 1898. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. xx, 466 p.
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