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Travelling People / Re: Gypsies/ Travellers in houses
« on: Sunday 26 June 22 13:21 BST (UK) »
I have seen this in my husbands tree early 1800s in these cases they tended to be agricultural labourers so lived on the farm, probably in a barn or such. He is Romany.
The descendant I was tracing lived exclusively in tents or gipsy caravans after leaving the family which would suggest a history of travelling despite this not showing on the prior censuses. She also married another gipsy. It would have been very uncommon in those times to marry outside the community.
They also came up in different county's on each census - Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire suggesting they were travelling.
The descendant I was tracing lived exclusively in tents or gipsy caravans after leaving the family which would suggest a history of travelling despite this not showing on the prior censuses. She also married another gipsy. It would have been very uncommon in those times to marry outside the community.
They also came up in different county's on each census - Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire suggesting they were travelling.