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Re: Pelham Showmen
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 04 December 22 18:00 GMT (UK) »
I’m not sure about whether he was the first of the Pelhams to start travelling it’s possible but there were fairs and entertainment venues in London for centuries including at moorfields so they could have been involved in the business within the city before the roads and wagons were improved in mid 1800s.
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 04 December 22 18:04 GMT (UK) »
Henry’s daughter my My 3times great grandmother Catherine was interviewed by the worlds fair and she said she was born in a wagon (1837) and never lived a day in a house.
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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 04 December 22 18:36 GMT (UK) »
Oh wow, where did you find out about that interview?
I know the person who i'm doing this for's grandmother lived in a caravan most of her life and hated living in houses.
Is it correct that Catherine's sister (mary)'s daughter married the famous Frank Bostock?

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Re: Pelham Showmen
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 04 December 22 19:00 GMT (UK) »
I’ve got the cutting somewhere it was handed down in the family but you could probably find it on the newspapers online. She was at Mitchum fair the oldest showman in the business at the time (1920s). Catherine’s sister married Francis Bailey and their daughter married a Bostock
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