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Topic: Gypsy, Traveller, Fairground, Circus links (Read 3578 times)
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exessexgirl
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I've found 2 sites which give loads of detailed information regarding travelling shows and fairs, and gypsie travellers.
1) www.thegalloper.com Link Reported Broken 14 July 2007
2) http://romany.rootschat.net/ Both give census details, the second site parish records, marriages and more.
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exessexgirl  White, Curtis, Lockyer, Drew - St. Pancras Collins & Catlin of Benington / Ardeley Herts, Collins, Dunkley, Poole, of Hackney, Edmonton,Shoreditch Allens, Clapham, of Islington. DeAth.... of Shoreditch. Gladden & Laker of Shoreditch / Bethnal Green Bibbys, Smith, Webb, Buckley of Essex Blessed and Wade Spalding Lincolnshire Pullen, Weedon & Skipps of Hackney and Essex. Danahar of Bethnal Green Caddy - Stafford Census information is Crown Copyright |
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celia
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Even if they weren't this is great stuff,you might find G.Grandmother was a belly dancer,the secrets out 
http://www.thegalloper.com/ Link Reported Broken 14 July 2007
http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Travellers.html
http://www.passing-through.co.uk/index.htm Site now has new name and is hosted at RootsChat http://romany.rootschat.net/
just noticed these are already here shall i delete it?
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mc8
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Vandecasteele 1932
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same here-oral history said that my grandfather was a bare knuckle prize fighter in a travelling fair, with tales of relatives who were acrobats and jugglers
Nothing so romantic-I come from a long illustrious line of dustmen and street hawkers who have lived in a small part of Camberwell since 1800....
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casalguidi
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Hi Mac
The site has a change of address (it is now here on Rootschat) ............... I'll update the link ........
http://romany.rootschat.net/
Casalguidi
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Dougalmac2
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Casalguidi
Thanks a lot for that info. It's a site well worth knowing about. In a few minutes just checking it I've found some really good info already.
Cheers, Mac
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Macdonald Renfrew,
Simpson, Lomas, Salford
Fawcett Salford, Liverpool and Blackburn
Smith, Freakley Staffordshire,
Varney Oxon & Warwicks,
Humphrey, Mayo Northants
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casalguidi
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Hi Bryant
The free Rootschat webspace server is down at present - Trystan is working on it 
Casalguidi
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Christopher
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The link to John M. Turner's "Dictionary of British Circus Biography" Project is on a few other threads but warrants a place on this thread too. John has 11,000 records in his biographical database, with over 10,500 records of circus visits. He's happy to share this information with other researchers, including family historians, on a reciprocal basis.
The Cornish Funfairs; Detailing the Showmen of the Duchy of Cornwall website contains an article about Anderton and Rowlands funfair which is probably the oldest firm travelling in Cornwall
The Family Trees section of fun-fairs.co.uk "All the fun of the Fair" message forum may help RootsChatters who are related to families in the Fun Fair business.
Christopher
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cazzanne
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Hi
Thank you for the information I will now plough through. I am grateful for your help
Carol
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Nick B
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The name Boswell has cropped up more than once in this section - Gordon Boswell has a website for the Romany Museum near Spalding, Lincs. at
http://www.boswell-romany-museum.com/
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Sondra
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My Grandma told me that we are related to Gypsy Rose Lee - I suppose, not the American. However, I have found that GtGt Grandma was a Lee whose famliy came from Bedworth, Warks. some time in the 1700's
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