Margaret Gillespie (singer)
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{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret Gillespie
| birth_name = Margaret Duncan
| birth_date = 12 December 1841
| birth_place = New Deer, Aberdeenshire
| death_date = 1913
| death_place = South Africa
| known_for = Singer of traditional Scottish songs
}}
Margaret Gillespie, n. Duncan (12 December 1841 - 1913) was a Scottish singer of traditional songs. She was a major informant for The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, contributing 466 songs.{{Cite book |title=The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women |date=2018 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-3628-1 |editor-last=Ewan |editor-first=Elizabeth |location=Edinburgh |pages=160–161 |editor-last2=Pipes |editor-first2=Rose |editor-last3=Rendall |editor-first3=Jane |editor-last4=Reynolds |editor-first4=Siân}}
Biography
Margaret Gillespie was born on 12 December 1831 in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, daughter of Elizabeth Birnie and William Duncan.
Gillespie is listed as the "most prolific informant" of The Grieg-Duncan Folk Song Collection. The collection includes 3 500 texts and 3 300 melodies from North-East Scotland.{{Cite journal |last=Ziemann |first=Johanna Maria |date=2003 |title=Review of The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection. Vol. 8: Songs 1316-1933 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4147845 |journal=Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture |volume=48 |pages=312–317 |doi=10.2307/4147845 |jstor=4147845 |issn=1619-0548|url-access=subscription }}
Gillespie died in South Africa in 1913.
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