Annotation:Miss Haldane of Gleneagles (2)
X:1 T:Miss Halldane of Gleneagles [2] C:John Carr (Pitnacree) N:Pitnacree is in Lude, parish of Blair-Atholl, Perthshire M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Seven Reels and Strathspeys (c. 1837, p. 2) N:”Printed and sold at Anderson’s Music Shop, Edinburgh” B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/118867572 N:”Humbly inscribed to the Laird and Lady of Lude” Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2 (GB) dBGB|AGAB cBAB|G2 (GB) dBGB|AGAB G/G/G G2:| gegb agab|gdgb a/a/a a2|gdgb agab|gedB G/G/G G2| gdgb agab|gdgb a/a/a a2|bagf gfed|egdB G/G/G G2||
MISS HALLDANE OF GLENEAGLES [2]. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Halldane of Gleneagles [2]" was composed by fiddler-composer John Carr of Pitnacree, Lude, parish of Blair Atholl in Highland Perthshire. Gleneagles was the seat of a branch of the Haldane family, one of Scotland's oldest noble families (800+ years). Tracing the family is very difficult due to the number of members, the interweaving of branches, the assumption of surnames, etc. However, Carr's "Miss Halldane" may be related to Margaret Haldane, who married General William Robertson, 13th of Lude.
Carr's single-sheet issue contained tunes names that all seem to relate to the Robertsons of Ludes, and make reference to the "Young Laird of Ludes (The)", "Lady Ludes" and "General Robertson of Lude" as well as two of the Haldane women. The 'young laird' is probably James Alexander Robertson of Lude, an army officer who never married and never had children; he sold the estate in 1823 after his father died. "General Robertson of Lude" would seem to have been his father, General William Robertson, 13th of Lude, who served in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and raised a regiment in 1794 called the Perthshire Fencibles. He married, in 1802, Margaret, eldest daughter of George Haldane, 18th of Gleneagles, Perthshire, who is Carr's "Lady Ludes." This puts the tentative dating of c. 1837 (by John Glen?) of the issue of Carr's single-sheet in question. It was likely either issued earlier than 1820, when the laird and lady were still living at Lude, or, it was issued around 1837 but of older tunes by Carr.
