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Travelling People / Re: Are they gypsies?
« on: Thursday 02 February 17 14:30 GMT (UK)  »
In response to many earlier posts in this thread, Mayo is not a gypsy name, at least from the Romany websites I've visited. It also has no association with Ireland: the name was around for several centuries before the county! CathayB is right! I should also point out that although my grandfather was indeed a marine, he saw no action in WW1. His ship was a "river monitor", which was sent around Africa and through the Suez Canal to fight the Turks. The ship was in dock for some months after a collision in the Suez Canal, and WW1 ended before it was repaired!

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Travelling People / Re: Are they gypsies?
« on: Saturday 05 November 16 18:25 GMT (UK)  »
Arfold in Sussex is Alfold, just a few miles from Godalming where most of the Mayo/Mayho family eventually settled.

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Travelling People / Re: Are they gypsies?
« on: Saturday 05 November 16 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
Job Light was born in Iping (Sussex) in 1806.

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