FLETCHER family - were they gypsies, travellers?

[j.1959]

1834-1851 i got my info from ancestry so must have missed hannah fletcher.i'm not a paying member on ancestry atm so can't look for anyone.i haven't got anything as regards where they were married  but they were living in that area i believe

[j.1959]

on my tree iv got hannah having 8 children with william moles but three of them have the surname loveridge and five have the surname moles. childrens names mary ann, william and rebecca loveridge and joseph,benjamin,ellen,hannah and frederic moles

[Darnity]

Thanks - I think you are following the Hannah who
was baptised in Little Brickhill May 14th 1837 to Richard LOVERIDGE and his wife Mary, he described as a tinker. She is the one who partners Moles.

See earlier postings about the Moles connection.

The other Hannah, who is probably her cousin who marries Alexander Draper, is baptised at Little Brickhill Feb 11 1838 to William FLETCHER and Mary nee LOVERIDGE, described as travellers of Northants.

But I'm very happy for anyone to show that I'm misreading the information about these Loveridge/Fletcher families.

[j.1959]

yes richard was my great great grandads brother

[Gaskinhunt]

I’ve just joined this site as I’m researching my family background. You can imagine my shock when I saw this post ! My gran was a Romany, her mother was a gaskin and her father a fletcher. I’m if the understanding the Fletchers were from the Birmingham area whilst the Gaskins were from Suffolk. I’ve a great great uncle called Alfred Gaskin who was from Sudbury and was enlisted into the army in Byker showground in WW1 and was killed just outside Ypres in 1917. I visit his grave every year.
Where it gets interesting is that my gran married into the Hunt family and settled in Gateshead where I am from. I now live in Tiptree and appear to have unwittingly retraced my family footsteps South.
If anyone has any further information regarding the Gaskins in this area I’d love to hear from you. Jason

[j.1959]

do you know the first name of your great grandad fletcher?

[Gaskinhunt]

Hi

Yes his name was Bertie Fletcher.

[Interesting...]

Hi,

I signed up to talk to you about this. I don't have much information but there are definitely Fletchers in Northampton and they are settled travellers.

They're a well known family in Northampton is all I'll say.

Here's one of them, known as "Mushy Boy Fletcher" fighting in a pub in Duston, Northampton in 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_BX_SFmd6E

[Interesting...]

Hi,

I signed up to talk to you about this. I don't have much information but there are definitely Fletchers in Northampton and they are settled travellers.

They're a well known family in Northampton is all I'll say.

There's a video on youtube of one of them, known as "Mushy Boy Fletcher" fighting in a pub in Duston, Northampton in 2008. Though the title says different as it's been reposted loads of times.

I commented twice, just in case in my last comment didn't make it past the moderators due to having a video link in it