Absolam is def a gypsy name though and he was Nathan's brother.
I think there is still lots of questions to ask....
William had money and left his children some....What did Nathan do with his money?....on William's will he gave him £12 which is over £500 in their time and that was a lot of money in those days. Yet he ends up on poor relief and then gets convicted. Going to your point, maybe they were that poor Everett had no choce put to take up with gypsies.
Then their is the rumour in my family that we decended from gypsies...If it was just Everett than we didn't decend from them we were just related to one. My great aunt who is still alive is adament we came from them.
I have added issues...who was Joseph Elks?...Other than his marriage to Sarah Plumb I can find nothing. Where did he come from? Also how did his daughter end up in Greenwich Kent alone and in the poorhouse with one child and one on the way?...There were lots of gypsies in Kent.
Frederick was born in Kent, married in Staffordshire and died in Leicestershire....yet his relatives lived in Nottinghamshire. His brother was born in Kent, had a child born in Cheshire and lived in Southampton, I don't know where he died. Then there is Fredericks wife, her parents were born in Norfolk, had children in Staffordshire and lived in Leicestershire....There is a reason why they all moved around.
So many questions...so few answers...lol......but that is how I like it, keeps my mind busy
