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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: Burto on Thursday 15 February 07 15:38 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
I'm trying to work out whether some of my ancestors were Romany or not. My GGGGrandfather, Joseph Swift was a musician/professor of the violin on various census, and when I tried to trace his mother, I couldn't find her. He was "baseborn" and my guess is his mother was a widow who had him out of marriage second time round as there is a record of an Ann Swift who was married to a Thomas in the correct area a few years before Joseph's birth or she was just a young girl part of a family who never baptised her. Anyway both possible families Ann could have been part of were removed from various places, were sent to Shepshed, then were removed a few years later.
Was it common for people of Romany descent to be "removed" from parishes?
Thanks.
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I think anyone who was considered to be a 'burden on the parish' could be removed.
http://www.history.uk.com/genealogy/index.php?archive=11