Annotation:Mrs. J.W. Bourke
MRS. J. W. BOURKE. AKA - "Mrs. Bourke." AKA and see "Lady Augusta Murray," "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)," "Push about the Jorum (1)," "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)." 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. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "Lady Augusta Murray." Robert Petrie printed a version as "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)" around 1805. The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune.
