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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: yeahyeah121212 on Friday 27 July 18 00:23 BST (UK)
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Hello, my family surname is Webb, which is on the gypsy surname list, and my family are very gypsy-like and have most of the gypsy aspects. I do not however know if we are gypsies or travellers or anything like that, but I would like to know. My grandfather was Barry Norman Webb who was born in 1948 and died in Salisbury hospital in 2014. His father was Arthur Norman Webb, not sure on birth and death date. There is also a record of Barry Webb living in carters clay farmhouse in 2006, and that is the area that we are from. Sloper and Another surname beginning with W which I forgot is also linked with us. We are also relatives to the Green, Harris, Hillier, Legg and Wolf families, all of which are on the gypsy surname list. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Other question so people don't repeat what has already been found
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=797420.msg6544549#msg6544549
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Cribbing ye quote from the other thread:
I wouldn’t mind knowing more, but I am mostly here to know whether it is possible if I could be gypsy or traveler or something of the type :D
From the familial names ye giving. And my personal experience of people of many of those names, plus a glimpse at 'The Book Of Bob' (Click the little house, under my avatar) for the purposes of pinning locations?
I'd say " Absolutely. " ;)
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Hello Crazyshotgug69,
with the names Webb and Harris associated with Gloucestershire please have a look at our notes on CECIL Family DNA and see if we can progress.
Cheers
Jack Gee
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Cribbing ye quote from the other thread:
I wouldn’t mind knowing more, but I am mostly here to know whether it is possible if I could be gypsy or traveler or something of the type :D
From the familial names ye giving. And my personal experience of people of many of those names, plus a glimpse at 'The Book Of Bob' (Click the little house, under my avatar) for the purposes of pinning locations?
I'd say " Absolutely. " ;)
Thank youOther question so people don't repeat what has already been found
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=797420.msg6544549#msg6544549
Hello Crazyshotgug69,
with the names Webb and Harris associated with Gloucestershire please have a look at our notes on CECIL Family DNA and see if we can progress.
Cheers
Jack Gee
I will have a look.
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Cribbing ye quote from the other thread:
I wouldn’t mind knowing more, but I am mostly here to know whether it is possible if I could be gypsy or traveler or something of the type :D
From the familial names ye giving. And my personal experience of people of many of those names, plus a glimpse at 'The Book Of Bob' (Click the little house, under my avatar) for the purposes of pinning locations?
I'd say " Absolutely. " ;)
Also could you please link the book as I am interested to what it says.
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The Cecil Webb Harris forum
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=792285.msg6484248#msg6484248
cheers
Jack Gee
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Hi,
My great grandmother was born Webb, when I was a small child she always referred to herself as a gypsy, and other old family members said that once her father had married a settled woman neither his nor her family wanted to know them.
Now that I've found her parents marriage certificate, I see her grandfathers address listed as a heath in Wheathampsted, which I think confirms the family story. I was hoping somebody might be able to tell me if the Webbs were Roma origin or Irish traveller? That great grandmother was my English grandmothers mother, and the rest of my family are Irish.
I show up as no English blood in my DNA results, so I would be very interested to know the history of the Webbs of that part of the country.
Thanks
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Hello Flynnl1,
what group have you had your DNA tests done?
What type of test did you have done?
I am associated with the William Cecil, Lord Burghley DNA Project thru FTDNA.
Would you be interested in submitting your results for assessment?
The name Webb is one of the surnames associated with the Cecil project.
PM me if you wish to go further.
cheers
Jack Gee
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Hi I’m new to this so not sure if I’m doing this correct
We have done a family tree on ancestry and can’t find much about my grandmothers mum
She was known as gypsy Bella ,by my grandmothers husband ,
Our family tree stops at her Isabella Webb 1870-1948 .dont know her parents or siblings or anything about her .
I would love to know who I am related too
She married a Thomas bray 1865-1935
We have all his family tree .
I don’t know how to find anymore please can anyone help
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Hi Linda,
You are looking for the reply button instead of the quote button, you will find this below the last response on the right ;)
Regards
Sarah
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Could this be her? From FreeREG:
St Mary the Less Westley Waterless . Other Transcript . Cambridgeshire
Baptism: 31 Mar 1870 . Isabella Alice Webb
Mother: Selina Ann Webb . Singlewoman of this parish
I cannot find a marriage, though they may not have formally married.
Added:
Isabella Alice Webb . mmn /
Apr-Jun 1870 . Newmarket . Volume 03b . Page 541
If her, this is her mother's baptism and parents.
St Mary the Less Westley Waterless . Other Transcript . Cambridgeshire
Baptism: 06 Sep 1846 . Selian Anne
Father: William Webb . Labourer . Mother: Mary of this parish
With fixed locations, she does not seem a traveller, though she could have married a traveller.
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Hi talacharn no this isn’t her posted above I found her in a census in bow
It lists her her husband Thomas and her and children .
It states his occupation as general dealer hawker ,
But I can’t fine a birth certificate or anything on her or her family
When she was a Webb