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On September 28th 1864 Charles Murray,, a  poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots, was born at Alford, Aberdeenshire.

I’ve posted a few times about him, but since then have found a biography of him written in the dialect he knew and worked with, for all the Aberdonians out there I hope you like this, for those not too familiar with “The Doric” enjoy…..this has played havoc with my spellcheck, but not for the first or last time!

Charles Murray is easily the maist-kent and maist popular Scots makars fae 1910 tae the 1960s; bit his scrievin wis modest, three sma buikies o verse.  Though there wisna onything amateur aboot his wark, Murray wisna professional screever and hid tae scrieve fan iver he hid ony spare time, fittin it aroon his wark life first is a prospecter and heid-chiel o a mine then as a heid colonial civil servant in the new-biggit Union o Sooth Africa.

Three individual collections cam oot in his lifetime - Hamewith; A Sough o War  and In the Country Places - the latter twa the traditional ‘slim volumes’ in fit verse afften appeart. The poems fae a three were vrocht the gather in Hamewith and Other Poems in 1927 fit bed print till the 1960s.

Charles Murray wis born on this day 1864, oot by Alford and wis the second bairn an only loon o Peter Murray, a jyner turned grieve.  His mither Margaret deid fan he wis three and he vrocht up be his aunt, Mary Robbie.  Efter skweel it Gallowhill, he served his time for five eer at Walker and Beattie, land surveyors in Aiberdeen.

He mynt later thit 'I came to Aberdeen, a country lad of sixteen with a “cockit” bonnet and, because it was winter, a big “gravit.’  His only worry in the big city 'was when the chief’s bell rang and I had to go to him and try to say a few sentences in what I thought to be English… The difficulty of translating my thoughts… was a real trouble.’

​Bit that worry didna last lang and Murray seen got lairnin aboot his chosen wark and despite his modest backgrun, became a richt social success.

​Ae freen mynt thit he, in nae time, became the maist popular member o the maist hail gran club o West End young chiels syne apairt fae his rare personality he hid a kyne o gifts:

'He was… a good shot, a keen angler, played several games well, could take his part in amateur theatricals, even took prizes at athletic sports such as throwing the hammer, played the fiddle, did pen and ink caricatures, was a good hand at bridge.

Efter three eer o wark in Aiberdeen, he went tae Sooth Africa, far he wis tae bide for neist 25 eers.  He landit it Cape Toon in Januar 1889 an, efter a fylie there, set oot for Kimberley, the diamond toon far he visited the De Beers Mine.  Efter this he went on tae Johannesburg and worked in mines in the Transvaal and Mashonaland.  He served in the Second Boer War and wis eventually appyntit Deputy Inspector of Mines. Within ten eers was Secretary for Public Warks for the Union of Sooth Africa.  He wis made a CMG (Companion of St Michael and St George) in 1922 and came hame tae Scotland we his wife, Edith, an settled in Banchory. He deid there on 12 April 1941.

MURRAY AND HIS SCOTS

'the vernacular was under a cloud…tabooed and frowned upon by most of our educational mentors. Hamewith helped to change attitudes in schools and in many…some or other of [Murray’s] poems are being committed to memory by the pupils’ and 'even HM Inspectors hail the "Hamewith” ​ Alexander Mackie.

Bit Murray’s wark wisna confined tae Doricland in e North East; mony of his poems - lik his maist popular The Whistle - became weel-kent far ayont Aiberdeenshire.   Murray follaet the gran echteenth century predecessors Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns and creatit a poetic tung fit wis draan on the Scots he heard arooo him as he wis grouwin up. Mony o the wirds and phrases he uses belong tae the Doric o his ain Aiberdeenshire bit he wis canny tae mak his Scots open tae fowk fae ither placies an a.  So, like Mary Symon, he bytimes uses the regular north-east 'f’ for 'wh’, and his best known poem is 'The Whistle’ and not 'The Fussle’.  Mony a Doric reader tho will ayewis read it as Fussle.

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Young Renfrewshire children excited to start school for the first time

Children aged four and five were eager to start school at Gallowhill Primary School in Paisley, yesterday. Continue reading Young Renfrewshire children excited to start school for the first time

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Gallowhill Primary School and Nursery Class

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On April 19th 1390 King Robert II, Grandson Robert the Bruce died.

Robert II, the first monarch of the House of Stewart, was born on 2nd March, 1316 at Paisley Abbey, the son of Robert the Bruce's daughter Marjorie Bruce and Walter, 6th High Steward of Scotland. He was delivered by a crude caesarean section, the heavily pregnant Marjorie Bruce had been riding in Gallowhill, Paisley, Renfrewshire when her horse was suddenly startled and threw her to the ground at a place called 'The Knock.' Marjorie was seriously injured, her fall caused a dislocation of her neck bone. She went into premature labour his mother failed to survive the ordeal of a caesarean section, dying a few hours later.

Young Robert was well thought of with one chronicler describing him to be;

“for the innate sweetness of his disposition generally beloved by true-hearted Scotsmen”.

Over 600 years later the jury is still out on Robert II, some say he was quite ineffective, the machinery of government was allowed to stagnate with Robert using honours as a way of controlling the more powerful barons. The rule of law was also weakened and crimes went unpunished. Direct taxation lapsed and barons and officials siphoned off money from customs duties, nothing changes in that way I bet!

Others say this style of bestowing honours made him a successful monarch, me I see little startling in his life, except his recruiting John Barbour to write the life of his namesake King Robert I, “The Brus” The epic tale is a mine of information about our most famous King.

Robert the second was also the father of one of the nastiest pieces of work in Scottish history, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, the Wolf of Badenoch, his father backed his method of “management.”

In dealings with England he was most successful with a the victory of the Scots over the English at the Battle of Otterburn, it was tainted by the loss of James, Earl of Douglas, more of that in August.

Robert II toured the north-east of the kingdom in late January 1390 and returned to Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire where he died on 19th April and was buried at Scone on 25th April What he lacked in his leadership he made up for in another field, he had 14 children by his two wives and at least another seven to other women, this was to cause conflict with later generations, but it left no shortage of potential heirs, his eldest son, John succeeded him, taking the name King Robert III.

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Come along to Renfrewshire Council housing consultation events

Public consultation events are taking place later this month to update people on plans for new Renfrewshire Council housing developments in Gallowhill and Johnstone. Continue reading Come along to Renfrewshire Council housing consultation events

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2 bedroom ground floor flat for sale on Gallowhill Road, Carmunnock

Asking price: £145,000

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