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Looking out for Aliases.....
« on: Monday 03 March 08 23:59 GMT (UK) »
A wee bit of advice when researching the travelling community.

Often they didnt want to be found - for many and various reasons varying from simply not liking to give information to untrusted people to having very good reasons for avoiding the law (ie being naughty).

If you are searching for Herons for instance, you may find them under more obvious aliases such as Hearn/Hurn/Herring etc and you may find them under more obscure names such as Golass, Raney and Ryles.

If you are researching the "Jasper Petulengro/Ambrose Smith" family, youll find some of them in Scotland under the alias surname of Reynolds in 1881 for a fact.

Boswells and Hearns both used the alias Boss - and some Bosses the used their "other names" of Boswell and Hearn/Heron/Herring/Hurn etc

Hearns also used the surname YOUNG just to confuse the issue further. Some YOUNGS were romany Youngs in their own right, and others nicked the name. for reasons which are obscure but may become apparent as we track them all down!.

At least one branch of the Grays used the surname Mobbs.

Many are the Rom families which chose for one reason or another to use the wives name not the husbands. Or her grandmothers, or his grandfathers, and so on......

Its all part of the fun of researching... ;)