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Hi there, i was wondering if anyone could help me on this, it has always been told that we have romany gypsy in our family on my great nans side, her name was elizabeth tooth and was said she was born in a gypsy caravan in warwickshire 1909, she has olive toned skin dark black hair and light blue eyes and wore alot of gold jewlery, she and her husband william edward banford my great grandad worked as the rag and bone and she also done basket weaving and selling toffee apples and her children my grandad and his brothers and sisters used to sell fire wood (kindle) in the streets, her father was william tooth who was a bricklayers labourer i think and her mother was elizabeth REA from worcestershire bromsgrove, they were a family of nail makers the Reas and the Banners on that side are also kimberley, Randle, Hughes, Brighton,, Wheeler, Troth, Crump, burford, and on her fathers side which is william tooths is the Nicholls family, Guest, Doughty, Newey, Blackham, Payne, Bailey, Broughton, Price, Ward, Etchells all these are people who are married in the family but my great nan being a tooth is said there is gypsy on that side of the family, i met only new years eve a family member of the tooth side who also carries the name tooth, he was telling us how he used to sleep under the caravan with his grandad when he was young, elizabeth rea mother was anne kimberley and her father was Thomas rea both from worcester and worked as nail makers up until 1911 he was a lodging house keeper and she was a boarding house keeper, not sure what these are, they lived in mill fields in worcestershire bromsgrove also sidemoor, cuckolds corner, the pleck, sidemoor allotments etc, any help would be appreciated thank you, im also a new member :-)