Romany Routes

Journal of the Romany & Traveller Family History Society
Volume 8

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 8 - Sep 2008
Principal Contents
The Merry-go-round Man -
Graham Terrell
Roberts Family of Sussex, Kent, and South Wales
   -
Rebekah Markham
A Family's Contribution -
Norah Smith
Extract from "The Night Side of London (1870)
Victorian Crime and Punishment -
John Pateman
Blundering About in the 21st Century -
Eric Trudgill
Solve the Mystery of Edwin Lockley
   -
Michael Edgerton, Marg Byram
Sampson and Amelia Tarrant -
Kevin Pearce
So Many Questions -
Dewi Prysor Williams
From the JGLS
The Journey Begins -
Alma Bacon
A Link to History -
Mark Baillie
Circumstantial Genealogy 4: My Lee Ancestors
   -
Anne-Marie Ford
Check the Events -
Ian Orchard
Travelling and Territory - the Long and the Short of It
   -
Eric Trudgill
Web Window
From Parish Registers
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Ayres/Ayers, Behr, Boswell, Botton/Botting/Botine, Bower, Brooks, Bucket, Buckland, Charlot(te), Clarke, Cooper, Draper, Golby, Gray, Hart, Hearne, Hillman, Holland, Howard, Hughes, Ingleton, Jones, Keeping, Kefford, Lawrence, Leatherland, Lee, Lewis, Manning, Manser, Massey, Mitchell, O'neill, Pannell, Ransley, Riles/Ryles, Roberts, Seers, Shaw, Sheriff, Smith, Snelling, Taylor, Tester, Thorpe, Toogood, Wilson, Wood

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 7 - Jun 2008
Principal Contents
The Welsh Romany Joneses - A Journey of Discovery
   - Part 4 -
Michael Wayne Jones
Crossing the Pond -
Sue Day
Scamps in my Pocket -
Michael Wilson
My Grandmother Emma -
Albert Buckley
Ronnie and Tex Taylor -
Cathay Birch
Nathan and Doris Lavinia Shaw -
Tom Hayter
Wisdom Smith's Children -
Eric Trudgill
Archive News: Gipsy Horses "held up" 1913 -
Sue Pearce
John Budd (Jack) Gray -
Anne Epton
William Smith and Milly Doe -
Norah Smith
Romany DNA Project
Extracts from Flora Thompson's Peverel Papers
   -
Alma Bacon
The Terrible End of Old Ted Buckland -
Anne Ford
Web Window
From Parish Registers
From the Census
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Albone, Allen, Allford, Allison, Ayres, Ball, Bassett/Basit, Beeney, Boswell, Boxall/Bexell, Buckland, Bunn, Choles, Clark, Cooper, Crutcher, Dawley, Doe, Elliott, Evans, Gess, Gregory, Hallum, Healey, Howard, Hughes, James, Jeffs, Johnson, Joles/Joules/Jowels, Jones, Lamb, Lane, Laws, Lee, Lock(e), Lockley, Long, Loveridge, Miller, Mitchell, Muirhead, Nicholson, O'neill, Orchard, Penfold, Ray, Ripley, Roberts, Rose, Scarrott, Sharwood, Sheen, Sherred, Smith, Swift, Thorne, Tidy/Tedy, Wales, Wells, White, Wood, Wray

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 6 - Mar 2008
Principal Contents
A Few Tips for Beginners -
Anne Ford
Thank You to the RTFHS -
Penny Prentice
Don't Leave It Too Late -
Tracy Bristow
Gipsy Women at Yetholm -
Robert Dawson
Ainlee Ryella - Looking Back - a Review
The Welsh Romany Joneses - A Journey of Discovery
   - Part 3 -
Michael Wayne Jones
Nehemiah Smith's Children -
Eric Trudgill
Umbrella Makers of Thornton Heath
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Trainette Hall nee Carey
Amberline Griggs 1893-1990 -
Alma Bacon
From Viking Long Boat to Gypsy Caravan -
Stephen Doe
Take Care when Researching -
Laurie Taylor
Frank Cuttriss -
Janet Keet-Black
My Gypsy Family -
Sandra Smith
Family History - a Short Story
   -
Margaret Alice Paterson nee Anscombe
A Major New Source on the WWW -
Keith Chandler
Recent Topics on the Romany Routes E-mail List
Photo Gallery
Web Window
From Parish Registers
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Barney, Beaney, Birch, Bird, Boswell, Brazil, Brinkley, Brown, Bull, Castle, Charlott, Cole, Constable, Cooper, Curtis, Doe, Draper, Finney, Fletcher, Frankum, Frost, Gifford, Gray, Gritt, Hall, Harman, Holliday, Horabin, Hyatt, Johnson, Jones, Lambert, Lawrence, Lee, Lock(e), Loveridge, Mills, Newman, Pelham, Pidgley, Ripley, Russell, Ryles, Sayer, Scott, Skarratt, Smart, Smith, Taylor, Thompson, Tilling, Warne, White, Wiles

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 5 - Dec 2007
Principal Contents
Walter Pateman and the Thiepval Memorial -
John Pateman
Blundering About in the 19th Century -
Eric Trudgill
Willett Family Life - Hedgehog -
Les Gustar
Carnation and Bessie -
Chris Penfold Brown
Proud to be Romany -
Alma Bacon
The Power of Pictures -
Kathy Doyle
The Welsh Romany Joneses - A Journey of Discovery
   - Part 2 -
Michael Wayne Jones
Old Mariah -
Albert Buckley
Convicts Sent to Australia -
Ann Epton
Miller and Williams - the Battersea Connection?
   -
Annette Chivrall
A Precious and Available Source -
Eric Trudgill
Freddie Taylor -
Jean Taylor
Cinders - was she a Smith, a Hope or a Lee?
   -
Janet Burgess
Ambrose Gray - from Horses to Scrap -
Ann Epton
Funeral of Sam Ayres -
Kerry Hawkins
A Tale of Two Bottoms -
John Pateman
Definitely a Hearn -
Jane Wardale
Web Window
From the Census
From Parish Registers
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Ainslie, Anscomb(e), Appleton, Ayres, Barton, Beckett née Birch, Besley, Birch, Bolye(?), Boswell, Brooks, Buckland, Burton, Carter, Chandler, Clarke, Cole, Cooper, Cullen, Dallaway/Dellaway, Darnell, Davis, Day, Deacon, Dickson, Dixon, Doe, Elliot, Finney, Fletcher, Gardner, Gatehouse, Gess, Giles, Goldring, Goldsmith, Gray, Green, Harris, Hayward, Hearn, Hector, Hughes, James, Jones, Keet, Kent, Kilby, King, Lakey, Lamb, Lee, Lines, Locke, Loveridge, Madgwick/Madgewick, Mapledorum, Marney/Mahoney, Marshall, Mason, Miles, Newberry/Newborough, Nicholls, Page, Pateman, Peadock, Peathouse, Penfold, Price, Reynolds, Richards, Ripley, Saunders, Sayers, Shaw, Sherrid, Skilton, Small, Smith, Stanley, Stevens, Stone, Strudwick, Sutton, Taylor, Turner, Waller, Wardale, Warn/Warne/Warner, Welcher, Wells, Wharton, Wheeler, Whitlock, Wilson, Witcher/Wicher/Whitcher, Wright

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 4 - Sep 2007
Principal Contents
Society Day 2007 -
Jenny Holman
Officers' Reports
Still Gypsy
Circumstantial Genealogy 3: My Smith Ancestors
   -
Anne-Marie Ford
Willett Family Life - Preparation and Use of Rabbits' Brains
   -
Les Gustar
Around the Fire - Buff Lane -
Joan Sharpe
Ambrose Gray 1893-1978 -
Jane Brown
A Link with Royalty -
Norman Burton
Born on the Straw - CD Review -
Rev Keith Barrett
Illegitimacy, Gypsies and Travellers -
Iain Wells
Direct Descendants of John Wells
Theophilus Scarrott, Earthenware Dealer -
Glyn Hatherall
Cinderella Small -
Ian Orchard
Mary Ann Pateman (1840-1844) -
John Pateman
Obituary of Charles Ayres -
Alma Bacon
Consanguinity -
Jennie Pittam
Tales from Across the Seas -
Ruth MacDonald
The Welsh Romany Joneses - A Journey of Discovery
   -
Michael Wayne Jones
Web Window
From the Census
From Parish Registers
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Alexander, Allum, Baillie, Baker, Blyth, Booth, Boss, Boswell, Braithwaite, Buckland, Buckley, Charlot, Clayton, Collins, Cooper, Curd, Dafter, Davis, Deakins, Dixon, Doe, Draper, Duce, Eastmond, Faa, Faa-Blyth, Friar, Gardner, Gaskin/Glaskin, Gibson, Gray, Green, Gritt, Gurry, Hack, Hamlet, Hearn, Hibberd, Hilden, Histead, Holdstock, Hughes, King, Lamb, Lovell, Loveridge, Miller, North, Osborne, Pilmer, Pitman, Plumb, Potter, Rose, Rutherford, Sherwood, Smedley, Smith, Smith-Pouncett, Stevens/Stephens, Taylor, Upton, Wallser, Webb, Williams, Wood, Young

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 3 - Jun 2007
Principal Contents
Where on earth did all the Gypsies go? -
Ian Patterson
The 'Tinker' Clearances -
Robert Dawson
Willett Family Life - Bootlaces -
Les Gustar
An Exciting Discovery -
Keith Barrett
Recent Topics on the Romany Routes E-mail
Let's Rokker Romany Interests -
Henry Smith
An Emotional Journey -
Leigh Keen
Tommy Boswell 1838-1910 -
Anne Ford
2007 Society Day -
Jenny Holman
No Gorgios -
Anne-Marie Ford
Mills & Haywood (and variations) - a sad postscript
   -
Vivienne Halton
Tales from accross the seas -
Dorene Tretheway
Jimmy Scott -
Trish Wilson
So which Draper family? -
Dianne Sutton
Blundering About in the 18th Century -
Eric Trudgill
Corke's Meadow -
John Pateman
Web Window
From the Census
From Parish Registers
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Ackleton, Ayres, Bailey, Barney, Beaman, Birch/Burch, Birchon, Black, Blackman, Blackney, Boss, Bowers, Brazil, Brennan, Brinkley, Brooke, Brooks, Buckland, Bull, Burton, Butler, Byles, Cooper, Cox, Davis, Dighton, Drewery/Druery, Elliott, Frankum, Gentle, Giles, Goodman, Gray, Green, Gregory, Harris, Hore/Hoare, Horwood, Johnson, Jones, Kemp, King, Lea, Lee, Light, Lovell, Loveridge, O'Leary, Orwood, Page, Parish, Penfold/Pinfold, Perry, Price, Rawlings, Ripley, Rogers, Sharlott, Sines, Smith, Stamford, Stanley, Stevens, Stokes, Stockwell, Sutton, Swift, Thorpe, Wade?, Wake, Wells, White, Wickens, Willett, Williams

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 2 - Mar 2007
Principal Contents
More Woad Parishes -
Robert Dawson
Esmeralda Lock -
Ann Ford
The Turner and Upton Families -
Susan Lodge
John Pateman Looks at Books
Rhoda Hughes the Gypsy 'Queen' -
Alma Bacon
Kentish Lees in 1910 -
Robert Dawson
Manuel Buckland's Children -
Eric Trudgill
The Origins of the Enigmatic Finneys -
Robert Dawson
Frank Hughes and the Gamekeeper -
Colin Jones
The Life and Death of Private Arthur Small -
B Cory Kilvert Jr Which School - If Any? - Janet Keet-Black
Seven Decades Back -
Godfrey Webb
Web Window
From Parish Registers
Did You See?
New Books
Members' Interests in this issue
Adams, Amos, Anslow, Bail, Bailey, Baker, Beasley, Beeney, Belshaw, Bird, Blackman, Bland, Blythhurst, Boswell, Boyling, Brazil/Braziel, Brewin, Brighty, Brooks, Buckland, Burr, Cane, Carp, Chambers, Clark, Cole, Collins, Cooper, Crocker, Deighton, Dobson, Doe, Douglas, Draper, Duffield , Easter, Eatherden/Etherden, Elliott, Fairy, Farr, Fisher, Foskett, Foster, French, Gascoigne, Gaskin, Gibson, Glover, Golby/Gobey, Gray, Greaves, Green, Grey, Hamlet, Harper, Harris, Heron, Hodgkins/Hodgkinson, Hopper, Hughes, Hunt, Hurst/Hursty/Horsey, Instone/Instance/Instant, Isaacs, James, Jewell, Jones, Kennedy, Kerr, King, Laidlaw, Lee, Lock(e), Lovat, Lovell, Lycett, Maccobby, Marshal, Millar, Munday, Newberry, Nock, Paine/Payne, Parkes, Parry, Parsons, Pattenden, Paul, Penfold, Perkins, Peters, Phelps, Pike, Poulton, Pullen, Ramasay, Redshaw, Richards, Ripley, Ryan, Sampson, Sanderson, Scamp, Shakepeare, Shepherd, Sherwood, Shoesmith, Simmonds, Siviter, Smith, Smith/Davis, Smith/Jones, Smith/Price, Snook, Stackhouse, Stanley, Stevens, Stone, Taylor, Thompson, Thornley, Thorpe, Tromans/Tromani/Trowmans/Trueman, Wakeley, Walker, Watson, White, Whitehouse, Wilderspin, Willetts, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Woodhouse, Woods, Wright

Romany Routes - Volume 8 No 1 - Dec 2006
Principal Contents
So which name do we search under in the next century?
   -
Robert Dawson
Residence: Tent on Kimbolton Road -
Dianne Sutton
Mesketh Smith: Transported for Life -
Ruth MacDonald
Exeter - An Open Day of Firsts -
Sharon Floate
The Hearns -
Sue Day
The Oldest Surviving Gypsy Gravestone? -
Sharon Floate
A Find at the National Fairground Archives Website
   -
Alma Bacon
Romani Roots - A Celebration of Traditional Gypsy Culture
   -
Kathy Doyle
On the Trail of my Romany Roots -
Rev Keith Barrett
Barrington Buckland's Children -
Eric Trudgill
From Beel's Weekly Messenger 1824 -
Jenny Boyd-Cropley
Two Stories, Two Soldiers - both Gypsies
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Chris Penfold Brown
Tugmutton Common -
John Pateman
Who Are They? - photographs for identification
New Books
From Parish Registers
From the Census
Members' Interests in this issue
Atherton, Ayres, Bailey, Baker, Ball, Banham, Barnard, Barney, Barton, Bassett, Beaney, Bennet, Best, Blackman, Bland, Bolling, Boswell, Bowers, Brazil, Britton, Brown, Bulley, Burtenshaw, Burton, Camfield, Carter, Chilcott, Clark(e), Cooper, Corr, Corry, Coxill/Coxall, Cunningham, Davis, Dickenson, Downer, East, Eatherden/Eatherton, Edwards, Elliott, Eustace, Eyres, Foord, Frankham, Franklin, Freer, Gallagher, Gibbs-Boswell, Gill, Goodwin, Goody, Gray, Gregory, Gumball, Harper, Hearn, Henson, Hillman, Hoadley, Hobson, Hollman, Hughes, Isaacs, James, Jeff, Johnson, Jones, Keet, Kemp, Kempster, Lakey, Lee, Martindale, May, Mcgregor, Mellor, Miley, Miller, Mills, Old, Orwood, Page, Parker, Penfold, Phipps, Pitchford, Platt, Pocock, Powell, Preece, Price, Raisbury, Richardson, Ripley, Rose, Rossiter, Sanders, Saunders, Scarrott, Scott, Sheldon, Sherwood, Sivers/Sivier, Small, Smith, Spinnall, Stanley, Stevens, Taylor, Tibbs, Todd, Tombs, Turner, Upton, Vincent, Vine, Virgo, Walker, Wells, West, Whitcher, Williams, Wilson, Wilson, Wood, Woods, Wraight

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