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Please delete your email address - I have picked it up now, you wont want the spam accompanied with it on an open forum. Youll hear from mesoon x

Firstly, I can help with Job Williams & Elizabeth - she was Elizabeth Boswell, reputedly d/o Tyso Boswell who died at Tetford Linccolnshire in 1831. I dont have her baptism although I do several...

Calling all descendants of Christopher Gray & Maria Smith

Dinah Gray c.1842 Scredington did NOT change her name to Ellen and marry Henry Smith and Francis Elliott - that was presumed because Ellen...

Hi How are you relatd? Im aware of a branch of Grays who married the King family in Lincs/Newark areas.

My grt grandad was Ambrose Gray his father Samuel, and his father Christopher - all came...

My Grandad, Arthur Elston would have been at Firsby in 1932, that was the year my uncle was born, so I know that for a fact. They didnt go back to Boston until 1939. . Arthur was a stationary...

Now you got me really excited!! :) please tell me all :) x

Oh I think they were travellers. Perhaps Irish travellers rather than English. But I think they were, they married into one of the best known Romany families going, and are extremely hard to find on...

Many thanks - I knew Josh and Delenda settled in Lancs, but this helps a lot in proving them. x

now proven, I found his baptism

Joshua Gray s/o John & Maria c.22.07.1838 Revesby Lincs

His half sister Victoria Gray was baptised at the neighbouring parish of Moorby (d/o John & Harriet) on...

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and it was...... and then my uncle died, just as we were uncovering all this, and I stopped working on it. Its only now that I have got around to wondering who all the other folks were in...

and it was...... and then my uncle died, just as we were uncovering all this, and I stopped working on it. Its only now that I have got around to wondering who all the other folks were in grandads...

blackman - can be yes

roberts - can be yes

rose - can be yes

taylor - can be yes

baker - can be yes

Instance of Boswell Surname crossed with Boss and the family moved around a lot? makes me think of Romanies. A painter - a painter of houses or pictures? I dont know but this thread flew up a red...

Cannot confirm Bathold and Bathwell as a fact, but I bet it is right.

Was not aware of Albert! a new connection to play with! (I guess you have already read the extensive threads on Bathwell and...

for sure there was an earlier Tom Winter who was a romany, he married Matilda d/o Elias Gray & & Amelia Hearn/Heron/Herring. He was born cir 1858 in Huddersfield according to the 1901 census when he...

Sounds to me, from the Norris Hearne connection, that you belong firmly in the family tree of Mullender Hearn/Hearne/Heron etc

I can recommend you check out on google search two sites: Romany...

photos are here: mostly of Nth kyme, Cropwell Bishop, and Tetford.

https://s89.photobucket.com/albums/k203/Ann65-2006/Hol09/

Have been on ma holidays - went to Notts and Lincs. Of Course I couldnt resist the graveyard hunt.

Have pix of Cropwell Bishop church and font

Have pix of Nth & Sth Kyme churches, interior of...

Betcha 100 quid (what do not have) that is indeed Charlotte Gray nee SMITH wife of Bathwell.

Many thanks Patricia - Im going to be in Boston end of July and will check that out. Thank you so much x

oooooo let me see.........

Know of many unusual names in the gypsy side of the family (and their rellies and so on)

but in the other lines amongst the labourers and farmers etc I have:
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Ok regarding copyright, here is a for instance, (any similarities to actual persons accidental)

say you looked up someone for someone else on the census, and then posted it here. If you copied and...

for convicts try

https://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/cons.htm

for NSW archives try

https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/

for Victoria Archives try

Wondered if anyone knows where Benjamin Peach b.cir 1800 came from? He married Mary Poppleton in 1824 at St Botolphs (Boston Stump) Boston. Their children were all baptised at Wyberton (just south of...

Aye, its been said before - heaven only knows which thread tho - It was that particular census which made me believe Bathwell/Batholomew also went by the name of Matthew as Charlotte is quite clearly...