Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco (later Aitken)

Miss Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco (later Aitken)
Born	1879
Died	1967
Residence	Horsell, Woking [1907] Potter's Croft, Horsell, Woking [1909] 49 Gordon Mansions, Francis Street, WC1 [1919, now Aitken] 11B Belsize Square, NW3 [1921] 52 Upper Bedford Place, WC1 [1927] Willianmarse, Brought, Hants. [1929] Broughton, Stockbridge, Hampshire; Somerville College, Oxford [census]
Occupation	anthropologist folklorist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1967 deceased elected_AI 1907.12.05 societies Folklore Society Archaeological Society of New Mexico

Notes

House Notes

proposed 22.10.1907 by J.L. Myres, seconded by T.A. Joyce
not in 1913 list
Editor with J.L. Myres, of Notes and queries on anthropology, 4th edition, 1912
LATER Mrs Robert Aitken
1959.06.04. It was reported that the Hon. Treasurer had received a letter from Mrs B Aitken asking for consideration to be given to her subscription which she had paid regularly since her election in 1907. The Council regretted that there were already as many remitted subscriptions as allowed under the By-Laws, so it was decided that publications should be sent free of charge until such time as a vacancy occurred on the list.
1967.12.14 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Barbara Freire-Marreco (1879–1967) was an English anthropologist and folklorist. She was a member of the first class of anthropology students to graduate from Oxford in 1908.[1]
She was born to a family of St Mawes in Cornwall, originally from Portugal, and spent her childhood in Horsell, Surrey. Barbara married Charles Aitken during World War I, meeting while they were employed at the War Trade Intelligence Department. They eventually moved to the county of Hampshire.
Her works were inspired by the lectures of John Linton Myres and Henry Balfour, after which she began a Classical education and achieved distinction in the field of anthropology. She remained a student of Balfour, and her education spanned a fellowship at Oxford and as a student of Professor Hobhouse at the London School of Economics. Her papers were published in Man and read before the British Association. She took a position at the Pitt Rivers Museum to study for her diploma and remained associated with this institution when this was completed; a collection of her specimens held at the museum. She became a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1907. Her membership in the Folklore Society from 1926 was preceded by articles in its journal, for which she continued to contribute 'Scraps of English folklore', correspondence, and a 1959 study of "processes of localization and relocalization" of folklore.[2]
The results of her fieldwork on the Pueblo peoples, collected in 1910 and 1913, was published by the authors of the Smithsonian's Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians.[2]

Publications

External Publications

Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians

House Publications

Temperament in Native American religion 1930

Related Material Details

RAI Material

A71 census

Other Material

PRM a collection of her specimens held at the museum, papers