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  Hi Jane

                 In 1989 i found an article in the Grantham press telling the story of a team of horses crashing through the Town and scattering the pots of a Mr. Wiltshire into the road, i was thinking how strange and bizarre the story was evan a pig was trampled, I have been through Grantham many a time and never once did i ever see a horse never mind a pig walking down the road.

Stories may come to a person in the most unlikely of ways when you research like me, i literally read and read thousands of reports of the past, this way of researching gives you a personal insight into the very times of the peoples you are researching, I hope you and Sky benefit from the words i write, i see how you are both cousins of mine in d.n.a and you both have collected vast amounts on your own family's trees  also the three of us link up in the paper trail back through Edward Wiltshire 1860s, to Sky through his son William and to you through his son Joseph, i also share d.n.a matches with others that you Jane also link to as in some of your other d.n.a matches also match to me.
 
Back to the story above. On reading the article i was thinking wow the Wiltshire's are still going around the Grantham way hawking pots about the place, then I looked up to the top of the newspaper and there it was stated........ "Stories that made the news about 110 years ago.”

Well i thought that one sure had me going there, like a pig was just trotting down the road in 1989, so now i went back in time to find this Mr. Wiltshire the hawker of pots. Eventually there in 1879 march the month on the 29th day i found him, he only gets a mention of a few words, yet its a goldmine of a story, i truly try and learn and understand about the life's of all our ancestors, when i read into them i feel i am walking amongst them.

The story of 1879 tells of three horses attached to an empty wagon belonging to Brackenburry of Londonthorpe, it is wrote they may have been spooked by the whistle from a train, near the BlueBell Inn they collided with pigs that have been bought by one Mr. Pock the local butcher, that's what you must of done years ago, you would just go to the local market and buy yourselves some pigs and walk them to your butchers shop chop them up in a back stable like room and then sell the meat in the room facing the roadway, well this Mr. Burden he was by trade a chimney sweep he attempted to save a pigs life by getting it away from danger, well guess what happened he got well flattened crushed they write, and now they state his business may be done for. Further along this mad dash the horses with wagon in tow now find themselves in Watergate where the “Wiltshire” man has his crockery van, they do not give him a first name they just write that its Wiltshire from Newark and that one of the wheels of his van was made contact with and his crockery was precipitated into the road, the horses did not stop it is stated until they arrived home in Londonthorpe, they say this was miraculous as there being many a tight bend on their journey home.

 This to me is a fine research account and just like the census reports should be saved and made available for others to learn from as they read of the life's of the peoples they research for, in the story above great knowledge can be gained streets Towns public houses not to mention the name of the chimney sweep great evidence may be found within such discovery's, its a fine way to research and brings alive the cold names of old that just linger in dust filled files alone and abandoned tombstones they are nothing but tombstones.

I hope you liked this story and maybe we can find the name of this Wiltshire man from 1879, i bet he wasn't to pleased about the situation and how mad is it that the horses ran all the way home, that's what you see in those old cowboy films, it must be actually true, in real life not just in films they must do that when there trashed and they don't evan have the satellite navigation system, people these days forgot how to walk to a shop never mind knowing the road to Londonthorpe.

I will find some more stories I hope you and Sky save them evan just the bear record itself then along with just a name found in a death column you can say this was the life of the unknown Wiltshire the pot hawking man of Newark.

Hi Jane
            Its good to hear from you, i hope you are well, yes you spoke to me before about your strong connections to the Wiltshire's in fact you have a fine Gipsy family through all sides, i thank you again for showing me all of your old photos i tried hour after hour to help you locate story's of your old peoples it was hard work but i was glad when you were happy. I wanted Sky to reply to me but i guess Sky's burned out. I think these Wiltshire's below may come out of Edward born around the 1760s, both sides the Newark line and the Yorkshire lot like the same names right up to the 1900s. 

  Jane in the Nottinghamshire press March 1924 is reported the death of Henry Wiltshire who is 71 years of age he passed away on the 2nd at Newark, under the title of ...........

"A well known Newarker's death”

Judging by his age he must have been born around the early 1850s they state he was the son of the late Joseph Wiltshire if this is the same family from the Joseph Wiltshire in my previous story then this Joe Wiltshire must be the son of the older Joseph who died in the 1860s and Henry the grandson of the Gipsy Joe Wiltshire born in the 1780s who could be the brother or son to the older Edward who married a Smith, the Joseph who was the father to Henry above had a fine trade in pottery-ware Henry and his sisters would go around the neighborhood selling pots on a dray drawn by a pony down through many decades you can see how they work the markets plus go knocking the doors, this is what makes me think that there is a chance that they may come out of the Gipsies, market traders tend to stick to markets, when you see the door to door work it shows more of a mindset.
Henry's father Joseph became well-to-do he had a fine house built in Newark known today as the old willow pattern in friary road it used to be known as priary road, its still there to this day with a plaque on the building above the archway to the front door you will see a very ornate stone decoration it represents the willow pattern of great renown in the pottery world.

Henry ended up in the Tenter building as some others did also, his fortune subsided at the deaths of his sisters who must have been the full force behind Henry at this time in his older life, we only can judge what we find there will be much more. 
 Henry in a lonely old state ended up seeking help from the poor law and grew weaker and weaker the relieving officer became a great friend at Henry funeral it is wrote his honesty and worth were recognized and esteemed by the wreaths on his coffin.


I am thinking all these Wiltshire's may link up, there is a chance that these people around Newark and Grantham Nottinghamshire  could be from the same family line as the ones who went over to Yorkshire out of William the son of Edward, those that went over to Yorkshire were very wild like I can not help looking at all these Wiltshire's around Newark and thinking they were more of a gentle folk just pottering around selling earthenware, if they are linked up they must of just hit on a great living and evolved into the area without the need to have a larger traveling route, after the 1860s they evolve into a more settled type that's if they are all connected to the older traveling Wiltshire family's, where the alarm bells ring for me though is the fact in all the records i find around Newark there all Wiltshire's by name, the Wiltshire's over Yorkshire Nottingham Derbyshire are known as Wilsher Wilshaw Wilshire Wiltshaw. In the Derbyshire press in the month of October 1908 Thomas Wiltshire is charged and sent to prison for violently attacking the police while poaching it is told to the court how he used the alias of Wilsher and Wilshaw.

In the month of August 1860 in the Nottinghamshire press Thomas Willsher along with William Elliott was stated as being the principal Gipsies in an encampment of 30 Gipsies staying at the four lanes end Farnsfield where they were apprehended and later charged at Southwell. This is not far from Newark, this Thomas Willsher i have no doubt will link back to the Yorkshire line. It would be interesting to find out if the Wiltshire's around Newark are related to all the other Wiltshire's who are known by variations of their name and travel over several counties in a circuit.

This is a link below to a web site about Newark where these words are wrote about the Wiltshire's. They write that it was Henry who built the house, yet the story above tells of how it was Henry's father Joseph. I also came across an older record several years back stating this to, i will try and find it again, so you see how evan modern records could be found to be false, like i say i do not know for sure about the true history of these Wiltshires and if they truly link up to the older Edwards line, either way its a great story though.

http://www.newarkcivictrust.org.uk/public/documents/trails/victoriantrail.pdf


One of the Town's finest name-plaques, “The Old Willow Pattern, marks the house erected in 1885 for Henry Wiltshire, glass and china dealer." 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/The_Old_Willow_Pattern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3116554.jpg

 

 

 The grave of Dan Boswell "Gypsy King"
 
This above is the title of a Photo taken of the new gravestone erected to the side of the old broken gravestone which is still standing in its original position, the year being 1976, the articles are wrote over two separate pages in one article it states words like the “previous year" so you have to be mindful yet not seduced. In 2012 i was approached in st Helens churchyard by the very man who claimed to be the one who had excavated and installed the new gravestone, the original stone “its right there” he exclaimed pointing to the ground just in front of the new monument, he told how he had dug the hole and set the new stone, which he claimed was not in the original position, this as now turned out to be true, the photo is now compelling absolute evidence proving he at least spoke the truth among the many down through these long years since Dan Boswell was interned who spoke and wrote, “conjectured was the tomb” yes he at least was an honest man, I could see him racking his brain, in deep thought he tried for me to remember details from a time long gone, he did well in his thoughts, I will write again soon with more evidence and history of this amazing story...Gipsy Dan Boswell.


 On reading the exact articles located in the Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press dated 30 April 1976
you will hear and see for yourself the most fascinating encore, as of yet, this most intriguing mist like rich story of old, cloaked in crooked lies adorned with untruths, trod this ground was by the most unholy scoundrels, strangers to the truth, kings of conjecture sullied this resting place the place of Boswell the Gipsy himself.

So it now transpires that through reading the articles you will find yourself that there were three gravestones, two made of stone one of wood, and mind blowing is the very fact that it is stated that the Vicars wife  Mrs. Simmonds had marked the grave with a wooden board marked in poker work— Dan Boswell, Gypsy King, how many years this wooden monument stood, i do not know, the very hands of the Vicars wife were the first to transcribe the words “Gypsy King” how the road turns would you believe it, I do wonder could it turn once more, who knows, sure I never would believe such a story not in my wildest thoughts over manys the hour of research on this story did I chance to think of such a thing, and more to descendants of Dan Boswells the “Spendloves” are stated as still living in Selston and Dan was evan born in Selston, “under an hedgerow.” on common land now known as Portland road It is also stated that they along with like minded locals help to raise the funds for the last of the three monuments, well it tells of how relations contributed, I am just thinking it could be the Spendloves but it does not actually link the two it could be others through the name of Boswell, the man who first told me the story of the gravestone did say that some people had claimed that they payed for the new gravestone and this fact he said was wrong he told it was mostly the family's of the church at st Helens who raised the money, he was quite adamant on this touched with a saddening tone to his voice.

 To be truthful in 2012 July the month on the 12th day was the day, the very same day manys the year before that my Mother died in front of these eyes of mine, I still am entombed in that day, so truthfully all I was doing was working round those winding beautiful slopes of Selstone doing some outside work, the rain would come and go, I thought to myself I know I'll visit and pay my respects to the Gipsy Dan Boswell, truthfully I was respecting the memories of my Mother and Gipsies gone to the world she had great love for Gipsy people, we are just scrag ends but I did find through the science of d.n.a that we are related to quite a few Boswells evan some in America, I was very proud to be honest, I did like the ones which came down from and through Lawrence known today as the Derbyshire Boswells, yet for me the biggest smile of all was when i was reading about the shared fragments of d.n.a with a Boswell who descended from Daniel Boswell, how wild is that, this story is wild.

So if you are interested in reading and seeing the first ever photo of the old stone side by side with the new one just singe up to the  national newspaper archives, believe me its fantastic, they are real nice people there who will help you navigate that web site, you can just pay as you go if you want, say for just a day, its very inexpensive or evan enroll for a few months or a year. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

 
 It is wrote selton was once known as salestone in the doomsday book "the place of the willows." also do not forget the old gravestone was buried in the ground just Infront of the new stone, it does not tell you this in the report above plus the man who dug the new grave in dug out the old one and like I say its now buried on top of the grave, he also told of the photo taken of him digging the grave so in the future more hopefully will transpire, this photo above shows the original stone facing the church, they must have thought of leaving both the old and new gravestones together, for some reason the old one was dug out and buried, maybe legally you can not have two stones or evan move a stone either way the details in the photo from the 70s align with the words told to me.     

Hi Don
   Like i told you i will write down all the Lock Locke names that are contained within all my D.N.A.
 cousin match's trees, i will only be able to show you what they show me, if you are interested i will give them your contact details, what you ask of them will be up to you so if anything i write rings a bell just say which D.N.A match is of interest you never know something may lead you back to Richard, i will only put a few names on that i think may help you to form a bigger picture there will be no need for you to answer any of these posts when i am done i will just leave things there and no doubt we will not speak again, good luck with your research, if by chance you are not interested in such things just say nothing, i am sure that these writings of mine will be of help to others. I will be leaving the country for a few weeks soon, i will continue posting on my return i will say at the end when i am finished.

This below will be D.N.A. match no. 3. from England. no. 1. will be on the previous post about H. Smith the male from the Gloucestershire lot. no. 2 will be the three Locks descended from Zacharia Lock from Wales who died in America but comes out of Henry Lock stated as being from England.

D.N.A. match no. 3. Female Born and bred a Davies from both sides a very impressive family tree we share 41 D.N.A. matches all Gipsy descendants including Davies and Smiths below names of interest that may be of interest.

George Davis 1755–Thomas Smith 1727–1838 Mary m Lock / Locke 1685–1745 Sarah Hannah Taylor Smith 1729–1834 Jeremiah / Jerry Davis 1804–1863 Aaron Smith 1788–1859 James Smith 1813–1876 Edmond V. Lock 1653–1728 Elizabeth Lock 1754–1797 George Lock / Locke 1754–1814
Elizabeth Stevens 1758–James Stevens 1730–1796 John Stevens 1688–1768 John Locke 1686–1731 Eve Lock 1804–1885 Corneilius Stephens 1871–1928 Sarah Anne Stephens 1917–1999 Thomas Stephens 1831–1881 George Lock 1724–1764 Abraham Smith 1680–1747 Comfort Smith 1775–1870 Isaac Smith 1712–James Smith 1735–1830 James Smith 1767–1830 James Smith 1813–1876
James "Gemmy The Gypsy" Smith 1767–1830 Jasper Smith 1749–1838 Jemima Smith 1747–1803
John Smith 1690–1761 John Smith 1723–1785 John Smith 1727–1785 Nathaniel Smith 1843–1921
Nathaniel Smith 1844–1921 Susanna Smith Thomas Smith  1692–1759 William Smith 1704–1766
Aaron 1 Legged Smith 1788–1859 Thomas Smith 1686–1759 Cinnamenta smith 1880–1965 Austin Davis1762–1835Ben Davis 1700–George Davis 1720–Jane Davis Jeremiah / Jerry Davis 1804–1863 John Davis Sarah Davis 1806–Thomas Davis 1739–1824 Mizzeley Davis
1907–1994 Merrick Lock 1782–1861 Sarah Lock 1811–1888 William Davis 1772–Sarah Ann Davis
1850–Thomas Davies 1791–Sarah Lock Smith 1811–1888 ? Davies 1740–Ann Davies 1817–1885
Benjamin Davies 1774–1874 Cornelius Davies 1879–1946 Cornelius james Davies 1908–1984 David Davies 1791–1868 Edith Davies 1889–1953 Edward Davies 1780–1860 James Davies 1790–1851
James Davies 1841–James Davies 1848–1932 James Alexander Gill Davies 1856–1935 John Davies
1809–1894 John Davies 1833–1898 Mary Davies 1809–1882 Sarah Davies Sarah Anne Davies 1840–Shirley Pearl Davies 1938–1999 Thomas Davies 1811–1888 William Davies 1800–1905 William H Davies 1884–1962 Wisdom Davies 1909–1976 Wisdom Davies 1938–2020 wisdom Davie's
1893–1965.

And look at these two i have been researching the Smiths and camping grounds in my own place of Nottingham then would you believe it these two just come along who are in my D.N.A. cousin match's family tree, and Bullwell is right next to Hucknall where the Derbyshire Boswells stayed Linda's lot. The Smiths i am sure are woven into my Mothers D.N.A. going back to times unknown, the bigger picture is there for all, maybe its not even hidden just like Dan Boswells old gravestone its right under your feet said the old Church helper who showed me the spot where he buried the remaining fragment that was left from the stone first erected many years before, then through me reading vast amounts of what could be said of as endless boring information i found that in 1963-64 the Church burial ground was littered with old broken gravestones so the people of this time connected to the Church used the old toppled gravestones to form walkways around the Churchyard, so Dan Boswell the Gipsy of long years still has all his gravestone in the the Church ground and both bits are under your feet, one day someone may dig up a path and find the true Epitaph when they combine the broken gravestones from the walkway and the buried one that lays buried just Infront of the the new erected stone from the 70s, also the Church helper told me the new gravestone is facing the wrong way, Dan was actually buried facing the Church if you stand a stride infront of the new stone turn to your left and there lays the Gipsy, Daniel Boswell. I found all this out by chance and by just digging away at chances that came my way, i was very lucky indeed the day i chanced by Selston, Dan was there to when i first approached his tomb i stopped in my track's i could feel him in a seeing way he told he was waiting sad to touched with anger within the moment he was gone he never came back, that's just the way of it. 

 John Smith 1723–1785 Thomas Smith 1686–1759 bullwell Nottingham.

All the information that i am writing about is information that i come across what is correct or
totally wrong or even something between is something that only time will reveal.