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Travelling People / Old Photos of STAFFORDSHIRE Travellers
« on: Monday 14 February 22 12:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Everyone

Below are 3 photos (copyright is with Staffordshire Past Track). I am hoping to be able to put family names to these rather than them just being labelled ‘a Gypsy’. Does anyone recognise them or see any family resemblance? They are all taken somewhere in Staffordshire or on the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border 🙂
Many thanks once again

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Travelling People / STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS - stories or memories of Traveling families
« on: Friday 11 February 22 09:28 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning all,
I was wondering whether anyone has any stories or memories of Traveller families, specific people or stopping places that they would like to contribute to a research project I am currently involved in. There are a number of documents and old photographs which show that Romany Gypsy and Irish Travellers travelled across the Staffordshire Moorlands area. I am collecting these together on a new website that will hopefully help others who, like me, are researching their Traveller families. The research is funded by a group called Support Staffordshire and it's a way of celebrating the Traveller heritage of the area. I have the task of gathering stories or memories to display alongside the photographs and memories. So if any of your family were travelling in or through this area and you have a story, or 2 or 3, to tell, please let me know. You can have your name displayed on the website if you choose or it can go on there anonymously if you prefer. I am finding a lot of Boswells, but there are other surnames such as Sheriff, Locke, Cooper, Gregory, Blewit, Sayles, Bailey, Smith and Holland to name just a few.
Many thanks in advance

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Travelling People / Boswell, Smith or Goodwin Family atchin tans in Staffordshire
« on: Friday 13 September 19 16:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi

My family do not travel but I have traveller Roots through the Goodwin family on my mum's side, originally from Staffordshire. My DNA links show that I am also related to a lot of Romany Smith, Boswell, Booth and Sherriff families. I would love to find out more about their stopping places and the life they might have lived. I am reading a wonderful book 'The Many Lives of Zillah Smith', but does anyone have any memories of the old atchin tans that these families might have frequented?

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Travelling People / Goodwin family - potters around Burslem
« on: Wednesday 06 March 19 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all

I am researching my ancestors, who were potters around Stoke-on-Trent. Their birthplaces include Burslem, Tunstall and Wolstanton. The family name is Goodwin and I suspect they are Romany Gypsy travellers but cannot be certain as they are listed as potters, pot sellers, pot packers, pot transferers etc. I wondered if the Goodwin name rang a bell for anyone with family from around that area?

Many thanks,

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