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Piki is a word in the Rom language, meaning someone of diluted bloodstock.

a "Black Blood" was a full blooded Romany, whereas a "posh-rat" was half blood. Piki was someone who was of more diluted bloodstock, and Gorja/Gaja was non-Rom.

oh and here:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Spilsby/spilsby_workhouse.html

note: one of my family died at Gables Hospital Hundleby (despite being from Boston) I never realised it was the same place!

this might help as well:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Spilsby/Spilsby1881.html

This might prove useful, you can ask the Bereavement Office for details.

http://www.boston.gov.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=636&Itemid=3344


However, as claimed above, the pre-1920s area has been allowed to return to nature, and I warn you that my great grandparents stone/vase was found there back in about 1990, but has long since vanished, having been smashed to smithereens at some point between visits.

Fourness Gray was buried at St Giles Cambridge in 1828, aged 91.

Ambrose Gray was baptised 1780 at Gamblingay Cambridge, s/o the above, and his wife Mary.

Charles Gray and Aquila Smith were the parents of Charles Gray who married Mary Ann Thorpe in 1808 at St Giles Cambridge.

Am myself related to Grays who travelled Lincolnshire, and they married into Smiths Elliotts and Browns. My 3x great grandfather Christopher Gray was born at Thurlby Lin, in 1815 and died in 1869 at Wrawby near Brigg. He married Maria Smith b.cir 1817 Willoughby Notts, the daughter of William Smith and Ann Elliott.

These were all travelling people, and I have no doubt the Grays tie up with the Grays who travelled Cambridge and Norfolk.