As I said little collecting of this type of material was done before 1900, certainly before 1880. The ballad seems to have been more current in the south. Bell and Dixon were in the north. Halliwell was more of a manuscript/print man as were Chappell and Ebsworth. John Broadwood made a small isolated collection in Sussex c1840. Peter was collecting/concocting in a small area of Scotland. He would have had copies of the English ballad but it would take me a while to look through his mss to see if he converted it into Scots. It wouldn't surprise me if he had. As an English ballad it would have been of little interest to Johnson, Scott, Motherwell, and Percy did no fieldwork. His material all came from correspondents (mainly Scottish) mss and previous print. Many of these collectors would also not be interested from the point of view of the subject matter so common on street lit.