Newly found travelling family Brinkley.

[frederickay]

Hi , I have found a new second cousin and we are working together . She was bought up being told her gt gt grandmother  Annie Alice nee Brinkley lived in a caravan and was from a travelling family .
My second cousin DNA on ancestry gives her 3  % Romani so it seems the family story has truth to it . I have now found a possible link to the family o. His son in law James Mill was a hawker and Charles a traveller on daughter's Annie's marriage cert .Dated Nov . 1891.
 have found a Charles Brinkley who I think is correct in the 1881 census . He and his wife are living in The Folly Caravan  .
There are a few James Mills and before go too far down the rabbit hole is there anyone who can give me some Romani history and where we go from here to have any proof and social history . The family appears to have settled in Edmonton London .
A witness name was Lydia Franklin I think née Welch . Thanks Fred .
 

[Kay99]

I think in 1891 James Mills and Alice were lodging with Abraham and Lydia Franklyn at +Woodville Grove which was the address listed as their address on their wedding cert later that year.   On the marriage cert witnesses listed as Henry Mills and Lydia Franklyn (in 1891  the couples landlady?)

In 1881 there is this family living with other familes in a group of caravans abbutting to Wardle St Wandsworth including a father James, brother Henry and mother Lydia

James Mills   29  Pedlar  Kingston, Surrey
Lydia Mills   28 b Not Known
James Mills   10  Hackney Middlesex
Henry Mills   7 Holloway, Middlesex

James  Mills lists his father as James Mills deceased on his 1891 marriage cert and if the 1881 family includes the correct James there is a possible death for his father below and James landlady in 1891 Lydia Frankyn and witness at his wedding may well have been James mother who moved in with Abraham Franklyn after her husband died??

Death Sep 1883   
Mills    James    36    Wandsworth    1d   389   

Kay

[Kay99]

In 1911 Abraham Franklyn age 62 is listed as single - a cutter living in Tottenham with Lydia Mills age 66 a widow

Kay

Added - and in 1901 they are living in Tottenham with Lydia's son Harry Mills

[frederickay]

Hi Yes it’s making sense . I saw Lydia Franklin as a witness on James and Alice marriage cert . I need pen and paper to connect all the dots . Thank you Fred .

[Kay99]

Good luck

I think this is the marriage of James Snr and Lydia  address Wandsworth

Lydia Burnett 16  Father Henry Burnett - Licensed Hawker
James Mills 20 Tinman Father James Mills - Tinman
Marriage Date   26 Jul 1869 Saint John, Battersea: Usk Road, Wandsworth, England
Witnesses Orlando Curtis and Hannah King

Kay

[Kay99]

Also found this 

Lydia Burnett
Baptism 1 Aug 1852
Baptism Place    All Saints, Wandsworth, Wandsworth
Father    Henry Burnett
Mother    Lydia Burnett

Added - Although the image has been damaged - The surname could be Burritt but neither Lydia or Henry could read or write

[frederickay]

Good luck

I think this is the marriage of James Snr and Lydia  address Wandsworth

Lydia Burnett 16  Father Henry Burnett - Licensed Hawker
James Mills 20 Tinman Father James Mills - Tinman
Marriage Date   26 Jul 1869 Saint John, Battersea: Usk Road, Wandsworth, England
Witnesses Orlando Curtis and Hannah King

Kay

[Kay99]

Also found this 

Lydia Burnett
Baptism 1 Aug 1852
Baptism Place    All Saints, Wandsworth, Wandsworth
Father    Henry Burnett
Mother    Lydia Burnett

Added - Although the image has been damaged - The surname could be Burritt but neither Lydia or Henry could read or write

If you do go further with this I think this may be Lydia's parents and family in 1861  at Caravan, Hampton Wick, Kingston, Middlesex at a Pleasure Fair held at the Thames Bank or Barge Walk annually.    The spelling of the surname varies and Lydia's surname was Barrett mmn Penfold when her birth was registered in 1852

Henry   Burrett   Married   31   Hawker  b Unknown
Lydia   Burrett   Wife 31 b Unknown
Lydia   Burrett   Daughter 9   Surrey or Kent
Priscilla   Burrett   Daughter 6   Surrey or Kent
Susannah   Burrett   Daughter 4   Surrey or Kent
Henry   Burrett   Son  2

[softly softly]

May be of interest!

BURRITT, PRISCILLA       mother's maiden name PENFOLD 
GRO Reference: 1854  D Quarter in WANDSWORTH  Volume 01D  Page 361

BURRET, HENRY       PENFOLD 
GRO Reference: 1859  J Quarter in EPSOM  Volume 02A  Page 7

Marriages Sep 1851   (Image on Ancestry)

Burret    Henry        Richmond S    4   531    
Burrett    Henry        Richmond S    4   531    
Penfold    Lydia        Richmond S    4   531   

SS 

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BARRETT, LYDIA       mmn PENFOLD 
GRO Reference: 1852  S Quarter in BRENTFORD  Volume 03A  Page 67

BURRETT, SUSAN       mmn PENFOLD 
GRO Reference: 1857  M Quarter in EDMONTON  Volume 03A  Page 116