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Travelling People / Re: Lane Family
« on: Saturday 30 September 23 11:11 BST (UK) »Actually, I remember records for a Gardiner family in Wellington Heath, Ledbury, when looking at the censuses a good while ago. I can't atest for sure their ethnicity, but mine and many others were certainly Romany families working as ag labourers around the Herefordshire Hop Yards. I'm told by local historians that they came to the area likely as Quarryworkers or at least squatting around there and were giving the opportunity to permantely settle by the lords of the land, because they had become vital to the areas labourforce.
Many thanks. That could potentially be very useful to help find my 'missing' Gardner (If I remember rightly I had various options for him but no clue as to which one he may potentially be).