Sue,
Thanks for that I'm sure Dick will find it far more helpful than my non-information.
Now that the house has come alive I have been able to search out the pamphlet I mentioned:
Roy Palmer's extremely useful 'A Checklist of manuscript songs and
tunes collected from oral tradition by Frank Kidson' (EFDSS 1986).
Also an article entitled 'Folk Song and The Folk' by John Francmanis, in 'Folk Song, Tradition, Revival and Recreation' (eds Ian Russell and David Atkinson) Elphinstone Institute, Univ. of Aberdeen, 2004.
Jim Carroll