Great work, IanC. The only "evidence" I had for a Manchester origin was from a Yetties songbook, where they advanced the theory that it was likely to have been Pomona before it became Lamorna.

Quite a few songs have "gone native" far from their point of origin.

"Lamorna" is NOW Cornish, just as "The Black Velvet Band" is now Irish, having moved from Barking to Belfast.

WassaiL! V