Gumble's

[social-butterflies]

notes from daily telegraph newspaper;
23/06/1908 ada gumble (40) & ellen lee (40) in reported case of fortune-telling. 

believe ada & john/jack were living at belvedere. (england)

he is buried plumstead cemetry norton road belvedere

thats it im afraid, but if i find any more i will let you know. 
just to add that at times i have seen their surname down as gumbill/gumbrill/gamble/gumball in some census so may be worth doing a search with different spelling variations. kushti bok

[sabbathuk]

Hi Barney
I have come across Levi Gumble & Delilah in my notes today

Levi Gumble bn. 1887,   bp.14/07/1885 at Orpington, d. 21/02/1970
married Delilah Smith (daughter of James edmunton) 13/02/1915 All Saints

Parents:
Ada Boswell bc.1869
John 'jack' Gumble

Ada's parents:
Urania Lee  1851 (Queen of the Gypsies)
Levi Boswell  1847


Urania's parents:
Abraham Lee  1930
Mary Smith ('Pol')



Hope it helps, thats all I have.
Donna

[Barney123]

thank you donna i have most of that info....i would love to know who john gumbles parents are?

great photo donna

[Showman One]

No real Info for you however i can confirm that i am a current decendent of part of the Gumble family that originally came from norfolk, suffolk area however they traveled as far south as london and possibly kent so that may explain why the name seems so spread out.

[WealdenClark]

Barney,

In the 1881 english Census for St Pancras, Marylebone, there are a large number of  Gumbles 'living in tents' living with Lees, Smiths and a Read, at the end of the census district.

One of these 1881 Gumbles, Phoebe, listed as a hawker, wed Romany hawker Stephen Clark in Horsmonden, near Tonbridge, on 28/09/1891.  It seems from this that the Gumbles must have come south at some point, maybe to pick hops in Kent. If this happened once, you can bet it was a tradition to do it regular, as it was for the Clarks.

Hope this helps

Neil

[grerew01]

Hi Barney,just joined up to this site and read your post.I am the great-great-great grandson of Urania Lee(queen of gypsies).My name is Andy Greig,and my grandfather(James Greig)was the son of Robert"Henry"Greig and Edith"Ada"Boswell.Hope this helps.

[Chooki1964]

Hi, I hope you don't mind me contacting you, I see a post here from 2013 so hope you pick this up. My name is Tricia Gray nee Boswell, my mother is Patsy Boswell nee Greig, her mother was Ada Greig nee Boswell born in 1898 and died at 99 years old and her mother and father were Hendry Greig and Ada Boswell. I think we might be related. We all live in Scotland now and my mother is 75 and can tell you anything you need to know about her granny and grandfather. You can get me on ^(*) if it is of interest to you. We would love to connect with family who knew of that era. Tricia X

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[jaybelnz]

 Huge posting in here on Boswells - saw the name Urania in there. If you haven't already seen it, probably worth a look!

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[fatcook]

Hi grerew001 and chookie,
A wee bit more information if it help. Ada Boswells parents were Frampton Boswell who was married to Jane sherriff they had four kids but I think two died young. Ada had a big family and used a lot of old family names like shadrack mishac abednego Greig aka Mick or mushy, which would be one of your uncle's, as well as James/Jimmy,  ruby, Hendry/Harry, Edith/ Ada etc. I remember meeting Jimmy when I was younger. One of old adas sisters was Vesuvius later known as Zuby.
Robert Hendry Greig family spent a long time in the Dumfries area where one of your ancestors was hanged in kirkcudbright for being a terrorising vagabond and thief in around 1760 the others in the group who pled guilty were transported. There's also a bit of scandal involved in the family too. There's an extract in the Aberdeen court records of a Robert Hendry Greig, horsedealer of Maitland street, Glasgow being granted an uncontested divorce in 1921. I can only presume he divorced in Aberdeen to save the shame as he was he had gained a lot of respect in Glasgow by this time and also because he was still married to Ada at this time.
I hope this helps with your research. I've so far gotten as far a 1720s in my own research leading to kaki Jack Boswell. We are also descended from Welsh romances as some of our words have roots there and are quite different from English romanies all though that is how we are classed, English romanichels. Cushti bok.