Andrew Ross
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Title - Andrew Ross
Contributors - Ethel Findlater; Elsie Johnston
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford
Item Person - Ross, Andrew [Rose, Andrew]; Rogers, Captain Henry
Summary - In this gruesome ballad, Orkney sailor Andrew Ross is tortured horribly by Captain Rogers on board the Martha Jane; he is savaged by dogs, dragged in the water, beaten, whipped, stabbed with an iron bar, and finally suspended in the air with ropes. When the ship docks at Liverpool, the captain is found guilty of murder and is executed.
Ethel Findlater recalls that Andrew Ross was supposed to be a Flotta man whose evangelisation was resented by his Catholic captain. Ethel got the words from a book given to her by Violet Harvey, and the tune from either Mrs Harvey or her own husband.
Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:07:08
Date Recorded - 1967.09.25
Date of Content - 1857.04 to 1857.09
Language - English
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies
Track ID - 63593
Original Tape ID - SA1967.109
Original Track ID - SA1967.109.A3
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R
Classification - GD6; R623;
Recording Location:
County - Orkney
Parish - Sandwick
Island - Orkney Mainland
Village - Dounby
Item Notes - 16 verses of 4 lines. Seaman Andrew Rose was tortured to death by Captain Henry Rogers between April and June of 1857, as their ship returned from Barbados. When the ship reached Liverpool, Rogers was tried and sentenced to death; his execution on 12th September the same year drew a crowd of tens of thousands.
Violet Harvey may be the same person as Violet Moar, from whom Ethel Findlater likewise says (on tape SA1968.193) that she borrowed a book and copied words.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, p. 7, no. 6
'A Ballad History of England from 1588 to the Present Day' (R. Palmer, 1979) pp. 138-139
Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/63593/1
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Contributors - Ethel Findlater; Elsie Johnston
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford
Item Person - Ross, Andrew [Rose, Andrew]; Rogers, Captain Henry
Summary - In this gruesome ballad, Orkney sailor Andrew Ross is tortured horribly by Captain Rogers on board the Martha Jane; he is savaged by dogs, dragged in the water, beaten, whipped, stabbed with an iron bar, and finally suspended in the air with ropes. When the ship docks at Liverpool, the captain is found guilty of murder and is executed.
Ethel Findlater recalls that Andrew Ross was supposed to be a Flotta man whose evangelisation was resented by his Catholic captain. Ethel got the words from a book given to her by Violet Harvey, and the tune from either Mrs Harvey or her own husband.
Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:07:08
Date Recorded - 1967.09.25
Date of Content - 1857.04 to 1857.09
Language - English
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies
Track ID - 63593
Original Tape ID - SA1967.109
Original Track ID - SA1967.109.A3
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R
Classification - GD6; R623;
Recording Location:
County - Orkney
Parish - Sandwick
Island - Orkney Mainland
Village - Dounby
Item Notes - 16 verses of 4 lines. Seaman Andrew Rose was tortured to death by Captain Henry Rogers between April and June of 1857, as their ship returned from Barbados. When the ship reached Liverpool, Rogers was tried and sentenced to death; his execution on 12th September the same year drew a crowd of tens of thousands.
Violet Harvey may be the same person as Violet Moar, from whom Ethel Findlater likewise says (on tape SA1968.193) that she borrowed a book and copied words.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, p. 7, no. 6
'A Ballad History of England from 1588 to the Present Day' (R. Palmer, 1979) pp. 138-139
Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/63593/1
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