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Travelling People / Re: Gumble's
« on: Friday 29 January 16 22:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi grerew001 and chookie,
A wee bit more information if it help. Ada Boswells parents were Frampton Boswell who was married to Jane sherriff they had four kids but I think two died young. Ada had a big family and used a lot of old family names like shadrack mishac abednego Greig aka Mick or mushy, which would be one of your uncle's, as well as James/Jimmy, ruby, Hendry/Harry, Edith/ Ada etc. I remember meeting Jimmy when I was younger. One of old adas sisters was Vesuvius later known as Zuby.
Robert Hendry Greig family spent a long time in the Dumfries area where one of your ancestors was hanged in kirkcudbright for being a terrorising vagabond and thief in around 1760 the others in the group who pled guilty were transported. There's also a bit of scandal involved in the family too. There's an extract in the Aberdeen court records of a Robert Hendry Greig, horsedealer of Maitland street, Glasgow being granted an uncontested divorce in 1921. I can only presume he divorced in Aberdeen to save the shame as he was he had gained a lot of respect in Glasgow by this time and also because he was still married to Ada at this time.
I hope this helps with your research. I've so far gotten as far a 1720s in my own research leading to kaki Jack Boswell. We are also descended from Welsh romances as some of our words have roots there and are quite different from English romanies all though that is how we are classed, English romanichels. Cushti bok.
A wee bit more information if it help. Ada Boswells parents were Frampton Boswell who was married to Jane sherriff they had four kids but I think two died young. Ada had a big family and used a lot of old family names like shadrack mishac abednego Greig aka Mick or mushy, which would be one of your uncle's, as well as James/Jimmy, ruby, Hendry/Harry, Edith/ Ada etc. I remember meeting Jimmy when I was younger. One of old adas sisters was Vesuvius later known as Zuby.
Robert Hendry Greig family spent a long time in the Dumfries area where one of your ancestors was hanged in kirkcudbright for being a terrorising vagabond and thief in around 1760 the others in the group who pled guilty were transported. There's also a bit of scandal involved in the family too. There's an extract in the Aberdeen court records of a Robert Hendry Greig, horsedealer of Maitland street, Glasgow being granted an uncontested divorce in 1921. I can only presume he divorced in Aberdeen to save the shame as he was he had gained a lot of respect in Glasgow by this time and also because he was still married to Ada at this time.
I hope this helps with your research. I've so far gotten as far a 1720s in my own research leading to kaki Jack Boswell. We are also descended from Welsh romances as some of our words have roots there and are quite different from English romanies all though that is how we are classed, English romanichels. Cushti bok.