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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: Andrew_Bandrew on Friday 05 June 09 00:50 BST (UK)
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Hi
Do you have a copy of his birth cert
Marriages June qtr 1906
Herbert James Davey Wandsworth 1d 1324
Mary Ann Whiteman Wandsworth 1d 1324
Births June qtr 1884
Herbert James Davey Stow Suffolk 4a 688
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Thanks, and yes I Do He Married mary Whiteman, and His Parents Were William R Davey and maria Crickmore, he was from woolpit suffolk
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Have you checked the 1911 census for his occupation - he is shown as living in Chertsey Surrey
1901 shows him as a grocers assistant
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Nope i havent, have you got copies for 1901 & 1911, and i know he was in woolpit 1891 but dont know if he travelled from there :S
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1901 he is a grocers assistant living in Woolpit
www.1901censusonline.com
1911 is only available on a pay per view basis but there is a free index. However - it only shows names, age and residence - not occupations etc
http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx?4
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1891 shows the family living on Heath Rd Woolpit. All b Woolpit except Maria
William Davey 42 general labourer
Maria 42 b Southwold
Henry 19
Elizabeth 15
Alfred 13
Herbert 7
Charlotte 15 niece
RG12 Piece 1455 Folio 156 Page 7
Nothing to suggest the family were gypsies
The 1881 is free to search yourself at www.familysearch.org or at www.ancestry.co.uk
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But when herbert was older he was recorded in chertsey like you sed, i also know of him living in kingston, willesden, london, bury st edmunds, norfolk, and around places in suffolk, and around surrey, and london, and alot more places i cant remember where my nan said, but this suggests he travelled alot?
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The fact that he lived in several areas does not make him a gypsy
He may have gone to live in areas where there was more work to enable him to feed his family (or possibly to avoid paying debts?)
One of my ancestors was born and married in Liverpool but had children in Wolverhampton, Shropshire and Manchester. he was a bricklayer so went were the work was
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yes i know that, but along with family information that has been said about him being a traveller, so ive come on here to find stuff out, but these things are not always right, there could have been no evidence at all they were gypsies but still could be, also its hard to find as it is after 1891 so i dont know how to find out at all... but i want to find out where the gypsy buisness has come from x