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I everyone, apologies as I have only jut been able to pick this back up again. I've been reading the enclosed with great interest.

Interestingly, I was contacted through Ancestry by a Donna Price from Cheshire who has told me she is a Romany and matches my DNA. Her mother's side are from Norfolk originally. Although she knows the Gaskins as a family name, she doesn't know how we are both connected to one another. She is of the view we are connected through her mother's side of the family (Greys). Be interested to learn is the Greys are connected to the Gaskins in some way.

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Thank you very much for the information re Glasgow. I can confirm they are my family members. The loss of his young son is new information and truly shocking. Even more so when his young daughter died very young and he was then tragically killed in ww1.
My daughter’s middle name is Leonorah after my gran’s name and she was in turn named after Alfred’s wife.
My aunt remembers meeting Leonorah her aunt as a child in Gateshead.
Bearing in mind their Sudbury connection, I’d be really interested to learn of their connections to Tiptree area if there is any.
I’m not sure about the London connection you have mentioned. I’ve arranged to speak with a relative in Newcastle to see if she is able to shed anymore light on the Gaskin side if the family.
I really appreciate all the help I’ve had. Very kind indeed and enlightening to say the least. More so as I visit Alfred’s grace every year in Belgium. 

This is Alfie Gaskin’s picture, memorial document.

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Yes his name was Bertie Fletcher.

I’ve just joined this site as I’m researching my family background. You can imagine my shock when I saw this post ! My gran was a Romany, her mother was a gaskin and her father a fletcher. I’m if the understanding the Fletchers were from the Birmingham area whilst the Gaskins were from Suffolk. I’ve a great great uncle called Alfred Gaskin who was from Sudbury and was enlisted into the army in Byker showground in WW1 and was killed just outside Ypres in 1917. I visit his grave every year.
Where it gets interesting is that my gran married into the Hunt family and settled in Gateshead where I am from. I now live in Tiptree and appear to have unwittingly retraced my family footsteps South.
If anyone has any further information regarding the Gaskins in this area I’d love to hear from you. Jason