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She was born and died on the Isle of Skye. Tolmie was born on a farm on Duirinish on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1840. Her father was John Tolmie whose family had been associated with the MacLeod clan at the nearby town of Dunvegan.
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Frances Tolmie
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She gathered Gaelic songs which were published in 1911. Her mother was Margaret MacAskill and she had been born on the Isle of Eigg. Over the next two years she extended her education to music and she seems to have taught herself the language of Gaelic.
Tolmie spent many years gathering together traditional songs in Gaelic.
She gathered Gaelic songs which were published in 1911 in the Journal of the Folksong Society. The collection was introduced by another folk song collector (Lucy Broadwood) and she supplied notes to explain the Gaelic musical scales to readers.
Tolmie returned to Skye and died in Dunvegan at the end of 1926.
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December 31, 1926 (aged 86) -
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