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Jax49
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Re: Gypsy Caravan
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 24 March 07 18:58 GMT (UK) »
I Loved the caravan pictures.
My grandad, who was not a gypsy, abandoned his family in Eccles near Manchester when his wife died. My dad remembers visiting him with his mother in the late 1930s in Staffordshire around the Leek area. During this time they stayed in his and his new wifes gypsy caravan similar to your picture. My fathers dad Isaac never forgave his dad for abandoning him and didnt visit. My great grandads name was George Storey born in Kendal in 1968. I dont know his gypsy wifes name. My grandmother always had a picture of him on her mantel sat in his caravan. Sadly since she died we cannot find it.
George has always been a mystery!

Jax
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Bradshaw Tyldesley/Worsley Lancs. RIMMER Liverpool/Birkenhead/Eccles Lancs. Dale Congleton.
Storey Kendal/Eccles. Ryan County Galway Ireland.
O'SULLIVAN Oughterard/ Cornamona County Galway, Ireland. Butler and Burke, Count Galway.  Cowburn Atherton, Manley Worsley. Durban (various spelling) Chilvers Coton Warwickshire. Phidiam/Fidium Worsley.
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Re: Gypsy Caravan
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 10 June 07 16:26 BST (UK) »
My Aunt Emma had a gypsy Vardo in her garden at Ellenbrook when I was young.  She was married into the Lee family but always told us we had some links with the Boswells.

The vardo (gypsy caravan) was burnt when she died as was the custom.

The Boswells used to come to work on my gt grandparents farm in Cheshire during the fruit picking season. they grew strawberries.
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