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« on: Sunday 15 March 20 09:34 GMT (UK) »
Hi everyone,
I’ve just got the results back from ancestry DNA which have confirmed my suspicions of Romany heritage a few times over. I have a 4th cousin called Daniel Smith who is a direct descendant of Wisdom Smith and multiple Boswells and Grays.I also have Boswell matches between 5th and 8th cousins in America. Searched their trees and the links appear to be a group who travelled together from England made up of Boswells, Whartons, Smiths, Grays, Lees and Stanley’s. I also have about 10 common matches with most of these. I just can’t work out who the common ancestor is. I’ve got Cashmore’s (my surname) marrying Boswells and Smiths in Birmingham but very distantly (we didn’t even know of Romany descent from this side they settled that long ago). Which leads me to think it was my great grandmas side who was the most recent traveller. All I know about her is she was born Violet Hirst in Barnsley in 1915, died in 2009,and her dad was called Chapman but don’t have a first name. Her mother was Mary and the trail goes cold there. She married Freddy Cashmore in 1936. Anybody aware of links between the Hirsts, Chapmans, Smiths and Boswells in Yorkshire? Could there have been a name change? Massively appreciate any help as it’s doing my head in trying to find the link.
Cheers
Ryan