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« on: Tuesday 16 September 08 21:43 BST (UK) »
Hi An65
Yes, I was really impressed by the Romany Routes magazines.
I can now see that Dinah Ellen Gray stayed with travelling families after Henry's death when she "married" Francis Elliott in 1883 but what happened to her children?
I'm curious to what contact she had with her children as some of the census we've covered here suggest she was apart from them and they stayed with their Gray uncles/aunts while she and Henry Smith were still "Married" ... but obviously the census after 1901 can't help.
I have family story and some past contact with the Grays and Smiths settled there in Great Hale, nr Heckington , Sleaford, at The Laurels where the Gray family lived c1910 onwards, plus the Smith/Gray graves at North Kyme.
It looks as if Henry Smith's sister Harriet , wife of Abraham Gray, played a big part in Henry , his mother Charlotte and his son Frederick Smith's life, but the other Smiths seem to have moved away. Metheringham is one village mentioned.
I've lost almost all trace of Christopher, Sarah and even Fredericks's siblings, apart from the sister Harriet married Herbert Hand family (think mentioned earlier - son Montague and that ends in n1901 census)
And, while I've got my gt grandfather Henry Smith's grave at North Kyme, I've no idea at all where my gt grandmother Dinah Ellen Gray/Smith/Elliott is buried... not even the county - Lincs, Cambs, Notts?
Chez