Forgive me popping up in this one. I couldn't help myself!
Woodge; As has already been stated: People seldom enough make up cock and bull stories about family histories, to their own family. If there's smoke? There's usually at least a fag end, smouldering away somewhere.
Also, one has to recognise that not all Gypsys spent their entire existences living in horse drawn 'caravans'. Eating hedgehogs and prancing about playing violins, whilst sporting gold ear rings and flashing white teeth in dark faces. That stuff's good for Enid Blyton. Not so clever for unravelling our possible pasts though.
Good god, the original " Romani Gypsys" got to england loads of hundreds of years ago. Sh1t changes, over centuries. We can't, seriously, expect every Gypsy to still look like a pakistani. (Alright. Yes. I Know some still do, to this day. Almost as weird in itself) Lot of water's gone under the bridge though.
One constant though is, of course, names .....
Now, without going through my entire stand up routine on this subject
again; I'd just like to throw in that your lot caught my attention. And I consulted " TBOB " Here I am, look:
Know what? It confirmed what I was sure I remembered. That Foster, Whittle, even Evans are names found given by Gypsy's, down the years. Bear in mind also that not all 'Gypsys' would be of Indian extraction.
Murder, isn't it?
