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• Bob Copper
  ...'s master folksinger (Obituary). Michael Grosvenor Myer, The Guardian, 3rd April 2004.] ...patriarch of the Copper Family (Obituary). Ken Hunt, The Independent, 1st April 2004]
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• Britannia Coco-nut Dancers
  '''Britannia Coco-nut Dancers''' of Bacup, [[Lancashire]]. ...ances, simply known as numbers 1 to 5, and two Nut Dances 'Thowd Cash' and the 'Figures'.
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• William Edwards Davies
  ...ing as a painter he lived in Winchcombe for the rest of his life, the bulk of it in Gloucester Street, becoming Parish Clerk and Sexton. He was buried o ...e Wincomb morris dancers, Sharp only recorded two tunes from him, only one of which had Morris connections.
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• MOORE,John of Shropshire
  ...eath of his father, Richard, and lived with his mother who is described in the 1841 census as a publican. ...ountry dance tunes of the early nineteenth century, a few songs and number of street tunes.
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• May
  [[January]] [[February]] [[March]] [[April]] [[May]] [[June]] [[July]] [[August]] [[September]] [[October]] [[November ...ions and superstitions. The First day of May, or [[May Day]] sees a number of celebrations, some famous like [[Padstow Obby Oss|Padstow]] and others unkn
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• January
  [[January]] [[February]] [[March]] [[April]] [[May]] [[June]] [[July]] [[August]] [[September]] [[October]] [[November ...Monday after Epiphany, the first day of the first week back at work after the Christmas holidays.
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• John Cook
  ...had been given good leads by Eliza Wedgwood. John Cook died in the autumn of 1936. Sharp collected only one tune from Cook, the [[Rose Tree]], which was given number 2162 in Sharp's fair copy.
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• Henry Barrett
  ...ished family in Randwick, Gloucestershire. Cecil Sharp visited him on 9th April 19080 and noted three songs. ...ch the couple set up home in their native village and both went to work in the local woollen cloth factory.
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• Cecilia Costello
  ...who lived most of her life in [[Birmingham]]. Born October 24th 1884, died April 1976 aged 91. ...least [[Roy Palmer]] produced further material, amounting to a repertoire of seventeen songs."''
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 87 (1916)
  ...Moffat publish a variant of the first of Chappell's versions in Minstrelsy of England (p. 25) with an instructive note. See also Ashton's ''Real Sailor S ...02, at Port Royal, and was buried at Kingston. His portrait is, or was, in the Painted Hall, Greenwich, to which it was presented by George IV. Mr. Ashton
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• Harry Barling
  *[[Thresherman, The|The Thresherman]] ...ather of [[Charles Barling]], from whom Cecil Sharp would collect a couple of songs in 1908. Thus Charles and Harry were cousins.
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• Jack Williams
  #I am a boatman by my trade, <br>And a waterman also<br>Through keeping of such company<br>I brought myself to woe.<br> ...at length to Newgate I got brought,<br>Bound down in iron strong,<br>With the rattling chains all round my legs, <br>She longed to hear them on.<br>
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• William Hedges
  ...was deceased”) where he died on 22 January 1919. We have found no record of his burial. ...but William Henry became a cattleman. Both, however, continued to work on the land.
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• Cecil Sharp
  '''Cecil James Sharp''', collector of English folk-songs and dances. *''English folk song, some conclusions'', London: Simpkin; Novello, 1907. First edition available online in various formats here [http://www.archive.org/de
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• Henry Allen
  ...o. Henry Allen died just over a year after Sharp’s visit, towards the end of 1910. ...isingly, they did not. However, one of the other musicians who played for the Ruardean Morris dancers was [[Tite Smith]], from whom [[Stephen Baldwin]] l
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• 34 The Sprig of Thyme
  ...ral the tune is indeed A Aeolian; but if they are presumed to be sharpened the tune is A Dorian. T:34 The Sprig of Thyme<br>
  3 KB (570 words) - 22:08, 19 October 2018
• Copper Family
  redirect from [[The Copper Family]] ...England]], the nucleus of the family now lives in the neighbouring village of Peacehaven.
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• George Wray
  ...great deal of contextual detail, including biographical information about the major singers; Joseph Taylor, George Gouldthorpe and George Wray himself. ...ition at Barton, at the age of fifty-four; performing to the accompaniment of a fiddle, which he considers better than anything to dance to." ''Op.cit. p
  4 KB (704 words) - 12:52, 26 October 2011
• Scan Tester
  ...and it was there that he learned many of the tunes that were to form part of his superb repertoire. ...nbsp; To further supplement their income the family also hawked fish round the local farms and cottages.
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• Zulu War, The
  '''The Zulu War''' ...battle while fighting with those blacks,<br />Every inch a sailor beneath the Union Jack.“<br /><br />
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