The dance notes have the following story to explain the title:
My father’s mother claimed to have a family connection with Sir Isaac Newton. We have no proof of this connection. but they both came from the same part of Lincolnshire.
An interesting parallel is that I was sitting one day under a haggis tree and a haggis fell off onto my head.
This made me gravitate to Scottish Country Dancing!
Someone in the “Big Apple” actually believed this story which proves that if one tells a big enough lie it may become established truth!
One of my father’s cousins took her mother, my grandmother and another aunt to a restaurant in London.
Wishing to impress the other diners, the aunt said in a loud voice, “Of course we are all descended from Sir Isaac Newton”.
She was promptly kicked under the table because Uncle Isaac was a bachelor, and, in those days, single parents were not even mentioned in polite circles.