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Re: commercial traveller selling straw hats - is this my gypsy ancestor?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 20 August 12 09:03 BST (UK) »

It's just that many years ago I knew a Persian girl who insisted that she was Persian and not Iranian!

Yes, I've seen the famous photo but no idea on the "Middle Eastern, Gray Eyed Girl".   :-[


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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