I have identified the tune - but it's quite different from the Playford version - so where did this version come from?

Jenny Pluck Pears

Fresian Polkas from 1820 manuscript of Wieger Michiels Visser

Anglois19 & 29

Fresian Polka from 1820 manuscript of Wieger Michiels Visser

Anglois 24

This is a rehearsal recording of a proposed set of old time tunes - Rock the Cradle Joe/ Little Billy Wilson/Old Time Liza Jane

Tappers Band Medley 1

This is a rehearsal recording of a proposed set of old time tunes - Barlow Knife/ Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough/Roscoe

All in the key of G

Tappers Band Medley2

This is a rehearsal recording of a proposed set of old time tunes - Cherokee Shuffle / Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss/ Yellow Barber

All in D (note:  in most Old Time sessions Cherokee Shuffle is in G! - but I prefer to play it in D on the fiddle - banjo players find it works best in G!)) 

Tappers Band Medley3

In the Autumn of 1868 the Clipper Ship 'Gossamer' came second in the unofficial race
to bring back from China to London the first tea of the season.

Her young and reckless skipper, Captain John Thompson, having made his name,
proposed to and married his sweetheart Barbara Kerr.

Within three weeks they were setting out together from London on his next voyage.
Barbara was to be dropped off in Plymouth.

A severe westerly gale was blowing up the English Channel.
Most ships put into port to shelter, but the Gossamer was a Clipper Ship with deadlines to meet.

This trip didn't go so well...... 

Tim Brooks 8