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Boswell family history
« on: Saturday 08 February 14 17:05 GMT (UK) »
I don't have a lot of info on my dads family all I have are my grandparents Jenny Sparrow 1-29-1921 to 10-22-2002 and Richard Boswell 1-18-1917 to 8-26-1979 his parents are Fener and George Boswell if you have any more info that would help I know they both come from Romani gypsy families

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Re: Boswell family history
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 08 February 14 17:14 GMT (UK) »
Hi and welcome to Rootschat

What country are we looking at here as there is no 1979 death for a Richard Boswell and no Boswell/Sparrow marriage or births.  The way in which you write their birth and death dates is not the English way so I suspect a different country than England

The only Richard Boswell birth is this one but if he was born in January - I would have expected to see it in the March quarter

Births June qtr 1917   
Richard Boswell mothers maiden name    Harman    Croydon    2a   565

 
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Re: Boswell family history
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 08 February 14 19:04 GMT (UK) »
George Boswell appears to be born 1891 North Carolina hes a salesman for floorcovering
Orefan his wife was born 1893 California shes a palmist
Harry their son born 1913 Alabama
Richard born 1917 Mississippi
Jack 1921 Tennessee
travelling to Georgia
nephew Max born 1910 Tennessee travelling to Nebraska
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Re: Boswell family history
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 September 19 22:10 BST (UK) »
You posted this so long ago that you may never see my response. It turns out after DNA testing that my grandmother was Romani as well. She had 5 kids by 4 different fathers. As a result her grandkids are half cousins. We all have a shared match with descendants of George Boswell that you mention in your post. Those descendants haven't answered my requests for information. Just the same I'll give you what information I've found George was married on 16 JUL 1911 to a Myrtle Cooper in Kentucky. Obviously this was prior to his relationship with Orphean . You are obviously a descendant of George and Orphean. His marriage to Myrtle appears to have resulted in a child Anna Belle who was the grandmother of my cousins and me. Our grandmother ended up in the Orphans' Asylum for Southern Illinois at Cairo. She was adopted by George and Hattye Farrin in 1915. At the time it stated her last name was Butler. She married very young at barely 15 and 3 months pregnant to an R.H. McCauley. Somehow she ended up in Texas pregnant and separated from McCauley. When she gave birth she claimed her last name was Cooper which leads us to believe she had some memory of her birth mother because it isn't likely she randomly selected the name Cooper. I think you'd do well to have your DNA tested at Ancestry where you'll no doubt find a number of those descended from George and Orphean and a few descended from George and Myrtle. I hope they provide you with more information than I've been able to obtain. here's the record of George's marriage to Myrtle https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9S7-M987-9?i=437&cc=1804888