Okay, so you caught me off guard. I've now had a chance to look more closely and I've spotted the hoax. You can reveal your true identity now 'Susan'. Ha, ha!

For anyone else who thinks there's any milage in this at all, the only differences between Child E and A are 1) the suicide in E8 which is unique (in English versions) to child E and crops up in various continental versions, and 2) the changing of an insignificant rose to white which is red in some later versions. These type of colour changes are very common in ballads of all kinds (White, blue, purple, black, green, yellow Cockades for instance).

As for the Irish traveller versions, that's all they are, typical traveller versions of the English piece.