how can travellers be in the bricklaying business?

[cathayb]

first of all roms/gypsies would lat their hands to any job that would make them some money although it would be rare to find them working inside except the women who often became laundresses.alot of our folk are agi culture workers just like a lot of the gaujo population.pea pickind,spuds,turnips etc.,some of the gypsy men were tractor drivers cart pullers etc., brick laying no problem.  maggott i notice your family are davis.i have a big problem with my davis/davy/davey/ family in that i cant find them!!sarah davis/davey was reputedly born in glos in about 1823.she married robert hughes and stayed mainly round the west country particularly devon once married.i can find no trace of her except with robert after 1871 when they took the name jones for 10years and then in 1881 when they were back to the name hughes.i dont suppose you or anyone else has any info do you.i would be very grateful/cathayb

[honey-roma88]

That was what I had always assumed. Just getting work wherever it was going. It's just common sense I suppose.

[Dh0458]

my great grandfaher was a bricklayer in notting dale , west london , was known as the potteries then , the kiln the bricks were fired in are still there .. his name was michael hayes and he was born in Limerick , ireland .. he could have been a gypsy  i am still trying to find info on this

great photo though

[honey-roma88]

my great grandfaher was a bricklayer in notting dale , west london , was known as the potteries then , the kiln the bricks were fired in are still there .. his name was michael hayes and he was born in Limerick , ireland .. he could have been a gypsy  i am still trying to find info on this

great photo though

The photo of the bricklayers was taken very close to Notting Dale, Fulham I believe around the turn of the century. My gg grandad's daughter (my great grandmother) married a man from Notting Dale in fact (Albert Morgan).

Maybe a few of your ancestors are in that photo. 

[rebekahm28]

Maggott, were your Davis from Wales?  My distant cousin Rosemary's great grandmother was a Mary Ann Davis from S Wales, who was Romany.

[cathayb]

do you know any of mary ann davis s relatives.our gt.gt.gt.gran was sarah davis b.1821 gloucester/wales/cathayb

[rebekahm28]

I dont, although she lived in Aberkenfig next door to a Mary Ann Clark. Cant see her on census tho.

[tiggi]

 well here's one to confuse you all can anyone tell me what a Bath Chair propertior is ?
I have a family and this was Head;s trade and I know they came form gypsy stock

[behindthefrogs]

Early bath chairs were small open carriages with a hood which were drawn by a small horse, pony or donkey.  Later they were simply pushed by an attendant.  These latter chairs would be found for hire particularly for invalids in spas etc.

Thus your bath chair owner would be someone who owned either of these and hired them out.

David