Interesting traveller names!

[rebekahm28]

Thats ok Jew. A lot of people seem to be descended from my lot but when we look into it it doesnt add up!  But Im glad you've found more info out and are going the right direction with your tree. x

[rebekahm28]

I go to the Asda's in Walsgrave every week...small world. Its interesting about Courthouse Green, I always think of Coventry as having no gypsy heritage but I suppose it has. x

[aug]

Hi

I will look on net and i buy that book courthouse green see what the book says.... Alot of my family are hawkers and used to go hoppicking in kent had a book on ebay about hopicking in kent with loads of photos in,i see if robert family in book i get next week when i have the dosh.. I see you had names down Girberts and wilkins..  My mums side as Girberts and my dads wilkins wonder if same line of family...  my mums side also as my dads have travelers connections. My gg-gran harriet cooper m a gladwin lived in a tent on mitcham common that my dads side. Harriet had grandson wilkins he from croydon. And Girberts my mums side and fosters are olive skin and blue eyes and black hair which alot of travelers had this colouring skin tone and dark hair which runs in my family or blonde and pale....  alot of my mums side came from north some moved south to croydon....  some names i have are Isacc and soloman ...  Be on later see what people wrote about this and that..

jew

[Edward Skylover]

I have just found tbhis post and it seems you have solved a mystery I have been working on for more than 2 years. Sportseller is my diect ancestor and I've been totally stumped as to who her parents were as they clearly weren't John and Charlotte.

I was wondering if you could maybe tell me some more information about Alice Taylor and Spencer Diaper, if it's not too much trouble? Did they die and were thus brought up by their grandparents or were the aforementioned parents never married? I can't seem to find them on the census anywhere and am totally confused because Sportseller's marriage certficate lists her father as "Snub Smith", her maiden name as "Smith"...

Thanks for your post, much appreciated I'm not sure how to send Private Messages on here but would love to chat to you further if you have the time.

Kind Regards and thanks very much!!!!

Ed

[Edward Skylover]

Hi Jim

Thanks for posting this about Sportsellar. She belongs to my family!

I'm sure the spelling is accurate as she named one of her own daughters Sportcellar (shortened to Sportie) too who only died within the past few years and all the family know/knew her as that. I've met the daughter of Theodore/Feodore Diaper who is now in her 80s and she's given me all the family info, including a photo of Sportie the younger and some of Obidiah.

Obidiah and Sportsellar were raised by their maternal grandparents: these are the John Taylor and Charlotte you found in the census, mis-recorded as their parents. Their father was in fact a Spencer Diaper and their mother Alice Taylor. So the children went by both names, Taylor and Diaper.

I'd love to have the full details of the baptism of Feodore Diaper that you found in Malling. His daughter would be thrilled to see it.

I have lots of evidence that the family travelled down regularly from Suffolk to Kent, presumably for the hop-picking.

Many thanks in advance.

Best wishes
Sharon

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Ah, thanks for the help. Much appreciated!

[rebekahm28]

JEW, I live close to Courthouse Green now but sadly I cant find anything out. There also were Romany gypsies by the gasworks in Foleshill/Longford area.  The Courthouse Green gypsies were mentioned in a book I recently read. I cant remember if it was A pocket full of Butterflies, or Rabbit stew and a penny or two. Read them both within a week, fantastic true life stories. Theres also one by somebody Petulengro that made the top seller list, they were/are well known fortune tellers and it may have been in that book. Hearsall Common is also mentioned as the fairs were there and still are.