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Offline Burto

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Roma people in Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire?
« on: Wednesday 27 September 06 18:11 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Just wondering if there were any Roma in Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire and around what time?
Also are there any common surnames?
There is a chance that one of my ancestors was Roma. Are there any specific occupations? My possible ancestor was illegitimate, I can't find anything on his mother and his occupation was "professor of the violin" he settled down and had a family in Nottingham but was born in Shepshed Leicestershire.
Swift , Matthews, Price , Clarke , Rockley, Dewey, Turton, Wild, Nottingham
Aldread, Brentnall, Cowlishaw Derbyshire
Elliot, The Borders/Nottingham FWK industry
Hartopp, NW Leicester (Barkby and surrounds).
Smith Bilston Staffordshire
Bennett, Calary? Ireland
Johnson, Staffordshire/Warwickshire
Latham, Lewis, Trevor, Vero, Armstrong, Barnett

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Re: Roma people in Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 28 September 06 15:13 BST (UK) »
I have some roma family in Leic/Notts.

Mine are Smiths from Coleorton LEIC and Elliotts from Willoughby On The Wolds Notts.

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Re: Roma people in Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 April 09 15:00 BST (UK) »
I have a Romany gypsy family NOT from Notts or Leics but there were definately Notts/Leics gypsies around the area, some just passed through, like showmen etc. Newark has been known for gypsies, for many years and I know some families did the Notts/Leics/Derbyshire circuit.
Casaubon (Geneva, London), Daulinge, Berners, McMullen (Nottingham), Tabb (Leics), Mycock (Derbys & Staffs), Gilbert (Notts), Price (s Wales), Krilovs/similar, gypsy Roberts, gypsy Clark, Bexell (Sussex), gypsy Elliott, Raven, Neligan (Co Kerry), Rymer, Newton (Hull).

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Re: Roma people in Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 07 November 09 03:30 GMT (UK) »
I know that one of the big Gypsy families in Notts was the Boswells.
Buckley, Loveridge, Bolton
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