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Re: boswell family gypsies or not?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 12 May 22 22:31 BST (UK) »
Yes the brookers are gypsies. Most of us live in mitcham. Matthews, Tom's, Ada, mark ect ect

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Re: boswell family gypsies or not?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 23 July 22 06:44 BST (UK) »
you have a few other gypsy names lurking in your family.cooper, and others.can you give some first names to go with boswell and who they married as that might help.alot of gypsies stayed around the east end of london.they got on particularly well with the jews.give me some of the addresses aswell.oh by the way they didnt have caravans until the 1950s and before that it was wagons and that only from about 1880.most were in benders(tents)or barns or under hedges or in lodgings!!!!give me some of the occupations aswell.the boswells by the way didnt arrive in england until about 1650!!!!!so maybe thats a clue?
Romani were reported in England as early as 1515 and even earlier in Scotland.