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Offline Keith Sherwood

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Re: Did/Do Gipsy families keep the maternal surname?
« Reply #27 on: Monday 01 February 10 10:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Hwilson, and welcome to Rootschat!
Perhaps if you post your query on the Kent boards on this website, then someone may have details of your family in a parish in the Tunbridge Wells area...
Very best wishes, keith
...and Kerryb, where are you?  It looks as though you share the STANFORD name...

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Re: Did/Do Gipsy families keep the maternal surname?
« Reply #28 on: Monday 01 February 10 17:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi all

From what I have found so far, and that is not very much at all, these ancestors of mine are very elusive, the Stanfords came from Horsham, West Sussex.  Of course there may be a connection but mine are very early 1800s.  What I have managed to find is that Helena's mother Emily appears to have been a Stanford and might have been daughter to Isaac from Horsham but the info doesn't quite fit together somehow.

Kerry
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