I came across a record about Madonna Gibbs and Emily Linian, two gipsies, so i then looked at records that may connect, maybe they connect back to the older ones in this thread, do not forget the famouse Major Lovell of olden times, everything below extracts plus there are many more records of North Street and the Boswells
Tuesday 16 March 1971
Birmingham Daily Post
Warwickshire
Gipsy chief seeks legal aid The leader of 50 gipsy families camped in Slackey Lane. Walsall. is applying for
T…….. Gibbs. aged 53. who has travelled in the Walsall area for the past 43 years, has been chosen as a test case by the Gipsy Council and the national Council for Civil Liberties
Saturday 21 February 1942
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
STOKE ROMANY LEADER
H.... Boswell and Mr. Lawrence Boswell, who are both in business as scrap metals dealers in North-street; Mr. Jack Boswell, who is working out of the district; and Mrs. Kirkland, of 63, Brick-kiln-lane. Etruria. His wife, Mrs. Rebecca
Thursday 11 January 1940
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
STOKE ASSAULT Father-in-Law Bound Over Summoned by his son-in-!aw for assault. Zachariah Finney. aged 65. of Trent Vale. was, at Stoke Police Court to-day, bound over for 12 months. Complainant was Lawrence Boswell, of North-street. Stoke
STOKE ROMANY LEADER Death of Rabbi Boswell The Romany community at The Caravans, North - street, Stoke, where there has been an encampment for more than 100 years. has sustained an irreplaceable loss through the death of their leader. Rabbi Boswell
Friday 07 November 1930
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
City's Romany Caravan Dwellers
ROMANTIC CUSTOMS. That a family of the Romany tribe has been living in caravans on land in North-street. Stoke, for 150 years was revealed at the Stoke Stipendiary Court this morning by Mr. H. Grindey, who defended three members of the Boswell tribe
Friday 07 November 1930
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
FOR 150 YEARS. In defending the Boswells. Mr. Grinciey said that John and Harry had been on the land for 37 years For 150 years or more a portion of the Waste land had been tenanted by their ancestors. The defendants were gipsies
Thursday 20 April 1911
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST STOKE MEN
Alleged Robbery with Violence. At the - Stoke Police Court Hugo Boswell, alias Gibbs. 21. van dweller of North street. Stoke
Saturday 24 February 1900
Staffordshire Sentinel
Staffordshire
STOKE FORTUNE-TELLER SENT TO PRISON
The defendant was a woman named Madonna alias Gibbs, a gipsy's living in a van near North-street, She was charged with pretending tell fortunes
Tuesday 20 February 1900
Northern Daily Telegraph
Lancashire
FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS. At Hanley, yesterday, Madonna Bagguley, alias Gibbs, was charged with fraud by pretending to tell fortunes to two women
Saturday 24 February 1900
Leicester Chronicle
Leicestershire
FORTUNE-TELLER SENT TO PRISON. Before the Potteries Stipendiary Harold Wright, at Hanley. on Monday. Madonna Bagguley, a middle-aged woman, who lives in a van at Cliffe Vale, was charged with pretending to tell fortunes
Monday 01 March 1897
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
Devon
On Saturday evening Joshua Lovell Gibbs, a gipsy, was charged with getting money by false pretence
Saturday 16 November 1895
Gloucester Journal
Gloucestershire
CITY POLICE INTELLIGENCE
A summons was taken out by Emily Moody against Madonna Buckland, gipsy, for assault. There was a cross-summons, and another against Seenty Buckland, daughter of Madonna Buckland for using threats ' November 7th. All the parties live in ...
Tuesday 22 December 1891
Gloucester Citizen
Gloucestershire
On Monday, at Hanley, Madonna Gibbs and Emily Linian, two gipsies, were sent to prison for one month each for fortune-telling, and they were also ordered to
Thursday 24 December 1891
Staffordshire Chronicle
staffordshire
the gipsy which from an overpowering faith in their power to tamper with forbidden secrets. Madonna Gibbs in Stoke the other day, the servants factory girls paid her mony
Wednesday 23 December 1891
Yorkshire Evening Post
Yorkshire
FORTUNE-TELLING in THE POTTERIES. TRAPPED BY POLICEMEN' WIVES.
Madonna Gibbs, a gipsy. was charged with breach of the Act by pretending to tell fortunes
Thursday 18 November 1875
Edinburgh Evening News
Midlothian
SUPERSTITION AT BIRMINGHAM.
Madonna Hearn, a young gipsy, was brought before the Birmingham magistrates yesterday charged with obtaining mony from one Selina Palmer on pretence of telling her fortune
Saturday 20 September 1862
Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette
Glamorgan Wales
LLANDAFF PETTY SESSIONS,
DRUNK AND DISOrDEILY.—Thomas Gibbs, alias Lovell, charged with this offence he was discharged with a strict caution