Daphne McDonald interviewed by Rob Willis in Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1119256
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McDonald, Daphne, 1914-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2003 Sept. 3
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 94 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Daphne McDonald, born at The Oaks, near Camden, N.S.W. recalls her father, Thomas Seymour, a carpenter from the Burragorang Valley, N.S.W. and first lieutenant in WW I; her mother Ruth Mary Healey, born in Ballarat, N.S.W. who established a midwifery Hospital at Weerona, N.S.W.; her mother's music and the songs she learnt from her; circumstances which led to her and her sister living in an orphanage and convent for a number of years; her childhood in Wollongong, N.S.W.; her training as a Domestic Science teacher, at Sydney Teacher's College (1930); first posting as an infant teacher, bonded for 3 years to Boronia Park, Sydney; posting to Baradine, N.S.W. at 21 years of age to teach a combined kindergarten, 1st & 2nd class totaling 60 children (1935); teaching post at Balgowrie, N.S.W. (1940); memories of air raid sirens; a great number of children's games and rhymes learnt during her time a teacher; teaching in the Illawarra region, N.S.W. on 35 shillings per week (1934)
McDonald recalls the Undesirable Climate Allowance payable for working at Baradine; social activities at Baradine, such as walking, golf, Bachelor & Spinster Balls; types of dances performed at balls; fires in Baradine; general stores and community life in Baradine (1930s onwards); Baradine School; return to work as a Librarian (1960s)
- Partial contents:
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- TAPE 1 Singing: The banks of Allan Water (fragment)
- Recitation: The banks of Allan Water (song)
- Singing: This is the end of a perfect day (fragment)
- We don't want to loose you- Boer War (fragment)
- repeated
- Just before the battle mother (fragment)
- Do not trust him, gentle maiden (fragment)
- Recitation: The passion flower (song fragment)
- Singing: The passion flower
- The wearing of the green (fragment)
- The dear little shamrock (fragment)
- They call it Ireland (fragment)
- The dear little shamrock (fragment)
- Tell me pretty maiden from Flora Dora (fragment)
- A bachelor gay (fragment)
- Conversation: intro and story of poem, Brave Gellert
- Recitation: Somebody's mother (poem)
- Old mother flipper flopper (not known as a song)
- Conversation: story of song Barbara Allen
- Singing: The little brown thrush (song repeated)
- Conversation: Fire on the mountain (playground game, details explained)
- Rookety Coo (hand action game)
- There's a cabin in the mountains (rhyme demonstrated)
- Tiny tapping in the night (elves and shoemakers game)
- finger play
- This in mother's knives and forks (rhyme demonstration)
- This is the church and this is the steeple (rhyme demonstration)
- How do you, my comrade (skipping rhyme)
- Jump Jim Crow song and description of dance
- Singing: Jump Jim Joe.
- TAPE 2 Singing: The wearing of the green
- Little bluebell
- Yellow daffodilly
- In the heart of a seed (action song)
- Down came the raindrops
- A frog he would a wooing go
- Hey ho said Rowley
- fragment from Don Giovanni (song in translation)
- unidentified Teacher's College song (fragment)
- I'm glad to meet you
- Once a jolly student (fragment)
- Swatting in the Library (W. Matilda parody)
- Biography/History:
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Daphne McDonald is a retired teacher.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Bruce Cameron.
- Recorded on Sept. 3, 2003 at Baradine, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Related Material:
- Related oral history with Daphne McDonald: located at; National Library of Australia Oral History & Indigenous Programs collection at ORAL TRC 6936/55.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
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- McDonald, Daphne, 1914- -- Interviews
- Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Baradine -- Interviews
- Folk songs, English -- New South Wales -- History -- 1901-1945
- Games -- New South Wales -- History -- 1901-1945
- Teachers -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945 -- Anecdotes
- Nursery rhymes, English -- New South Wales -- History -- 1901-1945
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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