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Yes Shainie

That’s Willems family. He was the last to live with old Guilroy in Leonard Stanley where he’s buried. I know the descendants of Curry’s family and I’ve heard about the woman who drowned. Private message me and I’ll send you the pictures. If you go on Eric trudgill’s gypsy genealogy website all our breed are on there under the heading Merryk Lock.

Hello Angio

Ingy was my Mother's first cousin. Her Father, Johnny Othea Boswell was her aunt Rhodie's sister.
We have a photo of Ingy and a brother who might have been called Edicar after his dad.

Lavina Boswell was my great grandad. I have a photo of him too.
He was named after his grandad, Salvaino.
Eric Trudgill has produced a pamphlet on the whole family.

Mom told us that when duckering. I.e. Fortune telling, Rhoda would ask that the client bring in a white shirt for luck.
It was because Uncle Edicar liked a white shirt.

The family also used the names boss, and Sherrif.

Hope this helps.

Vince

William Smith, known as Willem was the son of Guilroy and Eve.
He had one eye having lost one with a peg knife.

My great grandad Samuel was his brother. Three of the brothers married the daughters of their uncle Natty Smith. Some say that Martha was another one of the daughters of Natty and his Davies wife.

Willem was the last of the Smith brothers to stay in Leonard Stanley with Guilroy who ran a coal yard after his conversion to Christianity.

His brother Reuben was a preacher of some renown and travelled the world as an evangelist.

Hello All,

Moet,

Take a look at Eric Trudgill's site if you haven't already.

He has, Tom Stevens, brother of my ancestor Eve as being married to Jane Loveridge.
Before that he had an alleged partnership with Leondra Bagley.

Other siblings, Francis, Leonard, Eliza and others.

The parents of Tom Stevens were Emmanuel Stevens and Eve Lock, daughter of Merrick Lock and Mary Lee.
Source} Eric Trudgill Gypsy Genealogy}

As a long shot, if you go onto Romany Genes and scroll down and click on Vincent smith page ( Thanks Sue Day), there is a photo of my grt grt Grandad Guilroy Smith along with his brother Reuben and Samson.  Samson was I believe, married to Comfort Stevens' ( nee Gregory) aunt Jane Musto.

Take a look at Reuben ( seated in the middle) and compare with the photo with Singey Buckland and Reuben Smith and co.  Is it the same man??

I don't know. See what you think.  The dates and locations are right. I know this Reuben was a preacher who ran a church at Hartlebury, but we don't know who he married.

My ancestor Eve Stevens is buried in Horton and her husband Guilroy in Leonard Stanley Glos. This reflects the families work circuit.

All very interesting to me, because i know so many of the present day relatives of the Stevens, Bucklands and loveridges who live there today.
i've heard that one of the clan is writing a book, can't wait to read it

Hello all,

There is a really good article concerning Glos. Davies on Eric Trudgill's excellent Gypsy Genealogy website.

Wisdom, we are from the same clan.  My Grandad was Sidnal Smith, who was cousin twice over to your Grandad.

My father is over 80 and remembers alot about the  tribe of Natty Smith.  Thanks to Eric trudgill's piece on Merrick Lock, ( our ancestor), I know now that Annie Davies, was infact Sarah Anne Davies, and that Natty and guilroy were brothers.

Not to hijack the thread, the relevance is, that the Smiths, Davies and Locks, appear to have been so intermarried, that anyone researching these clans in Glos. would need to consider that the names can end up being interchangeable.