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Travelling People / Re: Looking for SMITH family - Gypsy's ??
« on: Sunday 15 August 21 19:33 BST (UK)  »
My great great grandmother was Martha smith, i believe last of the gypsy queens out here in south yorkshire who left to marry under brick but I have the plate she bequeathed to eldest daughter with her name on

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Travelling People / Re: Looking for SMITH family - Gypsy's ??
« on: Sunday 19 May 19 22:28 BST (UK)  »
Just found this site.
I have been brought up to believe that my Great,great grandmother was the last of the gypsy queens. She left the Romany to "live under brick" and in order to preserve her line she commissioned a plate with her  maiden name "Martha Smith" which is handed down to the eldest daughter, My mother was born in 1921 and it makes my great great grandmother about the 1870's.
My parents are from south Yorkshire and by coincidence I now live in that region and am a little confused as I have discovered a grave in a church in Beighton which says this is the grave of the last gypsy queen Lucretia Smith?

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