Annotation:Mrs. J.W. Bourke

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 MRS. J. W. BOURKE. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 302. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 30.  Recorded sources:

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