Helo shaun
A good day to you, i do hope you are well and your family fine. Shaun i have found much that i think you would be interested in, Kent, the South, all those Counties. This information that i have researched will take a few pagers to transcribe, try at the end to read them as an whole, i did find John Jack and things like that but first we must start at the beginning.
The Black Death, this was a time of an apoplectic mind set, Doomsday, through out Europe Village Towns and whole Country's were decimated, millions died, they say the devil was riding high, the times being the mid 1300s, it was thought of as the last days, Gods wrath was upon the people, again it is wrote the Jews were being slaughtered by their thousands to appease the Plague, in England around these times the likes of you and me in our life were confined to the place of our birth in a never ending life of serfdom, more or less an open prison, basically you just worked for the lord of the manner and your work covered your expenses in your life as you were allowed to sleep on the lords land, thats about it, no where to go, just marry into another family of your Village and start the hole process over again, yes the Black Death, the Plague of Plagues, so what happened a few years later, well everything changed, them lords still had all the lands that they had been fighting over, over untold centuries, well like every war that came later the Plague destroyed millions of people like me and you, the lords then had fewer people to work the land, the ones that was left got wise, they started to move to the next Town and offer there labour for a certain price, this was the true start of the Hawker in my mind, the seasonal farm laborer, the tradespeople, this was a time of great change.
I think also at this time people known as the Romany Gipsies moved into the vacuum, so now you have agricultural movements and millions of vacancies that the Black Death had brought forth, you can research these times, i dont believe for one minute all that superposed talk of scholars about the narrative time scale of the times of the Gipsies, to me the real truth lays within the truth of how the Gipsies in England went to America in the 1800s, from this land, it was just for the reason that they were pioneers, they were searching out new orisons, great opportunity awaited, to many people like to down play the Gipsies endeavor, the truth is the Gipsy was always wise and took advantage of new orisons, of course this was over many years and much happened within those times, so now we start, we both will learn evan "Kentish talk".
I found this record, this will be the start of our story.
South Eastern Gazette
12 July 1859
Kent
OBSTRUCTING THE ROAD _ Henry Beney, travelling horse dealer, vulgary termed " pickey", was charged with obstructing the roads in the town of Tunbridge. From the evidence of Mr. Godhard one of the Parish Constables, it appeared that on Tuesday, the market day, the defendant had refused to move his horses, although he had been repeatedly told, it was a very great inconvenience to foot passengers. The informant did not wish to press being only desirous of preventing the roads being stopped up._ Fined.
to be continued.......
