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Bessy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads, based on a true story. The two young women sought refuge from the plague in 1645 in a remote spot away from habitation. The story has been much embellished in a poem and balld that were written many years later. The supposed site of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray's bower, and of their grave, is recorded in a c.1860 Ordnance Survey name book, with the following comments: The site of bower and grave is on the banks of the River Almond and east of Burn Brae. (56°26′37″N 3°34′44″W / 56.4436°N 3.5789°W)

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rdfs:comment	Bessy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads, based on a true story. The two young women sought refuge from the plague in 1645 in a remote spot away from habitation. The story has been much embellished in a poem and balld that were written many years later. The supposed site of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray's bower, and of their grave, is recorded in a c.1860 Ordnance Survey name book, with the following comments: The site of bower and grave is on the banks of the River Almond and east of Burn Brae. (56°26′37″N 3°34′44″W / 56.4436°N 3.5789°W) (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Perthshire River Almond, Perth and Kinross Songwriter unknown Year of song unknown County Tyrone Child Ballads Maddy Prior Staunton, Virginia Steeleye Span Ewan MacColl Northern Ireland Otara Hill Pandemic Auckland volcanic field Child Ballads 17th-century songs Cherish the Ladies Martin Carthy Green Hill, New Zealand Omagh dbr:Wikt:bower
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has abstract	Bessy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads, based on a true story. The two young women sought refuge from the plague in 1645 in a remote spot away from habitation. The story has been much embellished in a poem and balld that were written many years later. According to the ballad, Bessy and Mary were daughters of two Perthshire gentlemen, who in 1666 built themselves a bower to avoid catching a devastating plague. The girls were supplied with food by a lad in love with both of them; the lad caught the plague and gave it to them, and all three sickened and died. The supposed site of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray's bower, and of their grave, is recorded in a c.1860 Ordnance Survey name book, with the following comments: This grave is situated on the north side of the Almond, and about half a mile West of Lynedoch house. Bessie Bell, according to the common tradition, was daughter to the Laird of Kinvaid, and Mary Gray, of the Laird of Lynedoch. Mutually attached in strong and tender friendship they lived together at Lynedoch, when the plague broke out in 1645; and to avoid it they retired to a romantic spot called Burn Brae, and there lived in a Bower in complete seclusion. A young gentleman of Perth, an admirer of both, visited them for the purpose, it is said, of supplying them with food, but unhappily he communicated to them the very pestilence from which they had fled. Falling victims to the disease, they were, according to custom, refused sepulture, in the ordinary burying-ground, and slept together as they had latterly lived The site of bower and grave is on the banks of the River Almond and east of Burn Brae. (56°26′37″N 3°34′44″W / 56.4436°N 3.5789°W) Two similar hills near Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) were named after Bessy Bell and Mary Gray by Scottish immigrants who went to Ireland to make their passage to America. Sliabh Troim ('mountain of elder') is the original Irish name of Bessy Bell, also recorded as Sliab Toad. There also exist twin hills in Staunton, Virginia which were named after the girls by Scottish immigrants. Two adjacent volcanic cones in the Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand, (Otara Hill and Green Hill) were referred to by 19th-century European settlers as Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (See 1859 map). (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	List of folk songs by Roud number Ōtara Hill Ballads and Candles Bessy bell and mary gray Tempted and Tried Green Hill, New Zealand Newtownstewart Shearwater (album) Woman of the House Mary Gray List of the Child Ballads Bessy Bell Betsy Belle and Mary Gray
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