on 21/12/2000 4:30 am, Bruce Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 17/12/00 8:33:10 pm, writes:
>>
>>> C sharpe is the bloke wot collected Scottish ballads.
>>>
>> Oh dear! No "e" for C Sharp, and he never collected Scottish Ballads, but
>> Confined his collecting to the south of England (mostly Somerset) and the
>> southern Appalachians:-)
>> He was, however, in touch with Greig and Duncan at the time when they were
>> collecting in Aberdeenshire.
>> Nicolas B., Lanark, Scotland.
>
> I see we have Charles Kilpatrick Sharpe, Sir Cuthbert Sharp and Cecil
> Sharp to straighten out.
>
There goes my name again... Bruce rightly corrects Nicholas B on the C
Sharpe mis-criticism, but he's slipped a Kilpatrick in there instead of a
Kirkpatrick. My Christmas card mis-addressing count is currently about 9:1
Kilpatrick verses Kirkpatrick, but getting locals NOT to call me Kirkpatrick
is almost impossible. This is helped by the local paper managing the error
with great consistency when reporting our folk sessions. My family's
Lanarkshire (Motherwell/Wishaw/Netherton) but over here in the eastern
borders the name is hardly known.
100 years before C K Sharpe's time, the two names were written freely and
interchangeably and sometimes signed by the same individual twice in
different ways on the same day. By the 1800s this had reduced and today the
Kirkpatrick name is considered mainly associated with Closeburn (Castle) and
the south Lanarkshire, Dumfries/Galloway families while Kilpatrick is
associated with Lomondside, Glasgow, Clydesdale and Ulster. Cospatric, which
sounds like a a variety of lettuce, is Dunbar and fallen out of use.
It's easy to get names mixed up when there are too many which sound the
same. I once wrote a prominent county magazine article which made Orlando
Gibbons the bloke who carved the woodwork at Chatsworth, and I'm sure C K
Sharpe has been credited with the invention of the bicycle more than once.
David Kilpatrick
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