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I'm a Drakeley, goin back Tommy n Charlie started the fairs from Aston, Birmingham. From me family we spoze be off of the canels but me Great Great Grandmother was an Irish Traveller me old Grandfather married. From what me family said she was the most beautiful woman anyone had ever seen wiv long jet black hair down her back n bright green eyes. Me family been involved in the fairs from when I was a boy. Me Father n Mother was heavy into the horses aswel. Me Father supplied Shires n foals to Whitbreads in London fir pulling the drays to deliver the ale around London until Whitbreads stopped it completely. They opened a big farm in Sevenoaks, Kent where all the horses retired n made it a attraction fir the public wiv the hop farm aswel n that. We used do Horse of the year show n all the big fairs n steam fairs. Times change n I spose we all aft to adapt. Fir my knowledge Drakeley ain't a common name, spelt Drakeley not Drakley. So if use from or got connections to Warwickshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton or Stoke On Trent then I'm sure we's all related somewhere along the line