Oh my... I only just found this so sorry for being so late.
Right, the first thing you need to know is the English ancestors of this Boss family were Romany Gypsies.
Riley Boss or Boswell c.1798 s/o Elisha Boswell & Zuha (reputedly Seni Boss) was married at least 3 times, and died in 1850 at Kensington (a place known then as The Potteries, a gypsy encampment, now known as Notting Hill.) Story goes Riley cut his hand skinning a Rabbit and got blood poisoning and died. He had previously travelled Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and as far west as Warwickshire and as far south as Suffolk. Quite a reasonable sized area for gypsies of the time. Remember this is pre wagon days, when gypsies travelled with horses and donkeys and lived in Bender Tents.
Anyway, polygamy was totally acceptable in the Romany Gypsy world in those days, and Riley had at least three wives.
They were: Charlotte Hammond, Lucy Boswell, and Susan "Shurensi" Smith. This last woman was often called Yoki Shuri.
Of the three, Lucy Boswell got out of the relationship and emigrated to the USA with some of her offspring. Susan "Shurensi" died in Hull in 1868, and Charlotte Hammond, which is the important wife in this particular Boss story, left Riley and went off with Zachariah Lee, By whom she had several other children.
Charlotte Hammond provided Riley with the following children:
Robert c.1817 Milverton Warwickshire
Charles b.circa 1815 (not found)
Delorania c.1820 Woolpit Sfk
Elias b.1826 Sudbourne Sussex - (baptised as Golias but never seems to use the name again)
Of these, all three men were tried for Horse Stealing. Robert and Charles, together in 1835 at Norfolk Assizes, and Elias with John Budd Gray in 1844 at Lincoln Assizes.
Their sister Delorania managed to stay out of trouble and married Aaron Heron also known as Young.
Robert and Charles ended up in Portsmouth on Prison Hulks (the Hardy and the Leviathan respectively) prior to their transportation in 1836 on the ship "Recovery". Charles died soon after arrival on the 1st Oct 1836.
Robert (who died 14 Jan 1904) went on to marry Elizabeth Letitia Rex (1822 Somerset-1887 Carcoar) they had a large family:
Matilda Mary Jane m. John MacClosky
Isabella Elizabeth m. William Fletcher
Elizabeth Letitia m. Thomas Joseph Smith
Emily Emmeline m. Daniel Charters
Jane Agnes m. John Shandley Hogan
Charles Robert Frederick m. Christiana Chesher
George Thomas m. Ellen Mary Obrien
Noah Robert m. Kate Harvey
Mary Ann m. Alfred Henry
Charlotte Ellen m. Michael J Chew
Elias William m. Catherine Chew
Samuel Owen d.1891
Arthur Joseph m. Esther Alice Purcell
Edward Victor 1870-1870
Now Elias Williams children were:
Florence E m. Michael Joseph Obrien
Herbert Hector m. Lila Pearl Wilson
Julia A C m. James T Newland
Isabella D
Mary Evaline J m. James M Picker
Robert Bannister d.1918 France killed in Action.
Finally, a little about Elias Boss the brother who was transported in 1844 - in Tasmania he married Frances Bonney, and their children were:
Delorania Bertha m. Henry Bish
Deliah Mary m. Albert John Watson
Caroline Lavinia
Elias Sylvester James
Lapoleons Rebbi Charles
May Ellie Rubina.
No Im not directly descended from any of them, I researched them out of pure fascination through being very very distantly related by the marriage of Riley and Susans dtr Susan who married Pasthomas Gray, the nephew of the John Budd Gray who went over the seas with Elias.
Hope it helps a bit
