Looking for ancesters of the STONE Gypsy family southend

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A MEETING FOR THE  DESCENDANTS OF THE GYPSY FAMILIES OF THE BOHEMIA ESTATES IN EASTWOOD LEIGH ON SEA ESSEX
16th OCTOBER 2016 (sunday) 12-5

ALL WELCOME. £1 ENTRY at THE CHURCH HALL
(please park at the church and walk back as parking is limited in the hall, less than 5 min walk)
St Laurence & All Saints Church
Junction of Aviation Way and Eastwoodbury Lane
Southend-on-Sea
SS2 6UN

PLEASE COME ALONG AND MEET UP WITH DISTANT RELATIVES, SHARE PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES, STORIES AND CONTACT DETAILS.

WE MEET ANNUALLY WITH LOTS OF LOVELY INTERESTING PEOPLE. MANY HAVE FOUND THEIR DISTANT LIVING RELATIONS. LOTS OF UNKNOWN PHOTOS HAVE BEEN NAMED ( & SHAMED). NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, PHOTOS, CERTIFICATES, DOCUMENTS, MAPS, ETC  SHARED. 

AN AFTERNOON OF ROCKERING WITH YA KIN

THIS IS FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CONNECTIONS TO THE GYPSY'S WHO LIVED OR STOPPED AT THE BOHEMIA ESTATES, THEIR ANCESTORS, THEIR DESCENDANTS AND ANYONE INTERESTED OR SHARING INFORMATION WITH OUR ROMANY GYPSY ANCESTORS. 

FAMILIES INCLUDE:
Allums, Bibby, Boswell, Buckley, Chillcott, Gumble, Lee, Livermore, Lambs, Loveridge, Pearce, Scarrott, Spencer, Shaw, Webb.

ATTENDING FAMILIES  with connections, include: so far - (names will be added daily)
Buckley, Bibby, Boswell, Shaw, Lamb, Pearce, Webb,

[Thermos]

Hi My Grandad was George Witney & my Great Grandad was Walter Witney/Webb, his wife my Great Gandmother was Alice stone & they came to Little Totham & lived on the Totham Plains,
She married Walter Witney/Webb they travelled to Kent for Hop picking etc, & I know my dad has done some searching & she was related to the Stone's in Southend I think she came to or from the Bohemian Estate Eastwood.
They settled here in Little Totham for the farm work & my dad still remembers they held on to alot of there traditions & didn't want to change, they never had water or electric connected to the little timber bungalow they built here & still cooked outside most of the time over a fire with a tripod & this was in the 1960's -1970's.
I'm very interested in my roots & know quite a lot about the Witney/Webb side I know they used both names. Depending on where they were?
But I have limited knowledge about the stone Side, I know my dad remembers Alice talking about walking from Southend area to kent Hop picking but not much else. And I know after they lived on a small piece of land Just next to the Totham Common after her mother brought the plot & they got some old railway carriages they had as a base there, I know also my Great Grandad was Baptised in kent as Walter Webb but we have always been known as Witney's round here? & is also in his christening book, His mum was Mary Livermore, from(Bassingbourn, Royston, Melbourn,) Cambridge & Dad John Witney from Layer Breton, sometimes the Witney is spelt Whitney depends who was writing it (that still happens now). I know Mary's mother Sarah Ann Livermore who was also living at Bohemian Estate Eastwood when she past away in 1912. There is so much but I have little about the Romany Stone side, my dad knows a bit more but not much, so would be interested if you know anything thanks.

[poly1963]

Hi Thermos. We have a Facebook group called Bohemia Estate. Please come and join.

My g grandfather was John Livermore brother of Mary.

Do you know where they went hop picking in Kent?