smith/booth gypsies nottingham

[swampinstein]

  Wow...great stuff.

I was just saying in my email that I love newspaper articles

[swampinstein]

  trying to work out in my head how Nathan became so poor...from what we have so far it seemed his father wasn't short of a bob or two regarding his will....think it says at one point in the Will that he gives Nathan 12 pounds? I would have thought 12 pounds was quite a bit in them days.

[nottsgirl1]

Maybe it just all went on feeding the children.

[swampinstein]

In 1840, £12 0s 0d would have the same spending worth of 2005's £529.20

just checked it on a site but it only gave me 2005's value

But that gives us a rough idea of what William Plumb was giving

[swampinstein]

wonder if Nathan did get transported somewhere or he did his time in a uk Goal.
Do you have a death record for Nathan?

[nottsgirl1]

Well not sure but Nathan if he was transported but he was back in Nottingham on 1851 census and he died Sept Qtr 1885 in Grantham.

[swampinstein]

he wasn't transported then because even the convicts with smaller terms very often couldn't get back to England because they couldn't afford the fare.


Have you done any research on the Hind's

[nottsgirl1]

Hinds no but if you give me a starting point I'll do so.

[swampinstein]

I have Samuel Plumb married to Elizabeth Foster....Elizabeth parents as John Foster and Ann Hind.....but I believe before Ann Hind married John Foster she was married to a Joseph Plumb......I think she married Joseph Plumb in 1720 and then married John Foster in 1728.

I am now wondering where this Joseph fits in with the rest of the Plumbs....was he Samuel plumb's uncle.


I also have John Fosters parents as...John Foster and Dorothy Blacknall who married abt 1698 in Lambley.