So this below is how i found out about Ambrose Bacon and his life leading to his death in WW1.
By Thompson
The year 1909 was ushered in by the sequel to the Boxing Day
quarrels of the Gypsies encamped on the Bohemian Estate, Southend, This estate is partly owned and partly rented by about twenty-five or thirty families of Gypsies, who make it their permanent home.two distinct camps : the converted Gypsies, and a varied mob of unregenerate pos-rats and ' mumpers '
then Thomson goes on to say this about the Elliott's, he seems to know round Lincolnshire
AFFAIRS OF EGYPT 1909
By Thompson
engaged in practising tricks. It is on record that Sarah Elliott and
Mary Ann Smith were fined £10 each at Coventry on May 23 for obtaining
£2, 5s. for a goat-skin rug by hoaxing and intimidation ; that Alice Elliott
and her niece, Isabella Elliott, were fined at Knaresborough on September
5 for obtaining £5 from a Boroughbridge publican by means of a trick
at Willenhall on June 21 for obtaining sums of 18s. and 10s. 6d. by false
pretences. Who these Elliotts were it has been impossible to ascertain. In all
probability they did not belong to the well-known Lincolnshire family, but to an
entirely ;distinct family (and one not renowned for its law-abiding character)
that may sometimes be met with around Bristol or London.
but who are these Elliott's who knew the Smiths and Wiltshire Families of Nottingham
Nottingham 1918
exciting the road near Lenton Abbey, led to the appearance in the Nottingham, George Smith, 57, gipsy, assaulting P.c. John and damaging his bicycle, Albert Smith, 23, and two young women Maria Elliott and Amy Webster, both Gipsys were also charged with assault.
Thompson the so called writer found one story in 1909 and merited it warranted but a single line
AFFAIRS OF EGYPT 1909
By Thompson
These notes are compiled almost entirely from the large volume weighing seven pounds of Press cuttings collected by the Society's Honorary Secretary On March 15 some so called Gypsies were evicted from a camping ground in Hawthorne Street, Nottingham
AFFAIRS OF GIPSYS 2016
By Me
Nottingham 1909
After numerous written notices and two and one quarter hours of argument, a body of Gipsies were removed from land in Hawthorne street, Nottingham. Belonging, Mr. H. Brown and Messrs. Brothers. For two or three years this land has been the free habitat of the Bohemians, the landowners, in co-operation with the city sanitary inspector, determined to them, notice of eviction Mr. Brown's agent, together with two gentlemen from Red Lion-street, two other men' on behalf of Chorley Brothers, and a couple of policemen, at nine o'clock this morning. Perhaps the order had not been taken seriously, for the encampment had yet made the slightest preparation, and the only horse fetched from the fields was promptly sent away when the police were spotted. There were three caravans, in which some 15 people lived, Billy Bacon, pleaded that his only available horse was lame, and refused to quit. Thereupon the two gentlemen from
Red Lionstreet, capable looking, stepped to the front
“The first man who touches my van I'll lay out" intimated Billy, the powerful looking fellow standing over six feet high. The gentlemen from Red Lion-street consulted, and decided that they could not interfere under the circumstances. Meanwhile, one of the owners of the other vans said he was quite willing
"to have a flutter'’ and stand the consequences.
Someone was despatched to negotiate
Nottingham 1900
Charles Bacon, gipsy, was summoned for aiding and abetting
Fred Wiltshire, Richard Elliott. And John Gregory, in trespassing in search of game, on land belonging the Duke of Portland
having a look at the Gregory family you mentioned, and saw that son Henry appeared to marry a Letty/Letitia/Lettice Wiltshire. This in turn led me to look at the Wiltshire/Wilsher families, and I think I have found out that Richard Smiths wife, Mary, was a Wiltshire.
Now the age is slightly out, but a Joseph and Lydia Wilsher had a daughter Mary Ann baptised at Normanton on Trent 15th Sep 1816. Then there is a baptism on freereg for Lydia d/o Joseph and Lydia Wiltshire of Saint Ann's St., tin man, Nottingham St. Mary, 22nd Jan 1837. This Lydia would fit agewise with the widowed Lydia Elliott who is with Richard and Mary on the 1871 census and make her sister to Mary.
Also there is a baptism at Saxilby in 1821 of Thomas s/o Joseph and Liddy Wiltsher and 1813 at Swineshead, Lincs, of Joseph s/o Joseph and Lydia Wilshaw. Joseph marries a Sarah and is in and around Newark and manages to appear on the 1861 census twice, at both Newark and New Sleaford Lincs.
