My grandmother was a Ward and she has proved difficult to find on a paper trail. She married a Power which isn't a traveller name and he was ok to find.
I get the impression that travellers arnt that fussed about documention. But oh how difficult when trying to build a family tree no birth certificate. How hum one day maybe. ☺
Travellers are infamous for their poor documentation. Typically they appear on documents for births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, but it gets confusing because they might intentionally obscure where they are from by changing birth places, dates, and names on different documents. My g. grandmother had one birth name that was the same as her mother's but then later, her name changed and that was the name she went by for the rest of her life. That seems like a common practice, which can make them incredibly difficult to track and verify.
