Author Topic: Travellers  (Read 950 times)

Offline Minster

  • RootsChat Pioneer
  • *
  • Posts: 1
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Travellers
« on: Friday 07 September 12 01:31 BST (UK) »
Do drovers count as travelling people?

Offline peggysmum

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 311
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Travellers
« Reply #1 on: Friday 07 September 12 15:36 BST (UK) »
well my interpretation of traveller would be a family of people who were culturally tied to it.a drover was a group of men travelling as a way to get the livestock they were paid to shift to market. so i guess they were travelling but not necessarily travellers. does that make sense, but do bear in mind that is only my interpretation being a descendant of travellers not how someone else might see it.
Tracey
waters/walters-berkshire
tanner and adby- berkshire
loveridge and parker romanies from suffolk,essex,beds,bucks and herts
gill- derbyshire
turvills-hinks,leicestershire
calladine and Bostock,pot hawkers-Derbyshire