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Stanley: The Family Trees of Paul & Peter, Richard & Owen Stanley
From about 1710 to about 1910 from primarily Dorset, Devon and Somerset. Compiled by Anne-Marie Ford. A4, 24 pages. Before Anne-Marie Ford began her pioneering study of the Romany Gypsy Stanleys, almost all that had been written about the family concentrated on their lives in the USA, following a 19th century exodus from Britain. In this book the author has corrected the imbalance by – q...More Info
A Surrey Gypsy Bibliography Sources for family and social history
By Jeremy Harte The author has made many years of special study of the Romany families who lived in and travelled through Surrey. This book is a distillation of that knowledge. It’s in the form of an essential checklist of books, magazine and newspaper articles and items from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Romany Routes (the journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History S...More Info
Ayres: Yet More Evidence - Concluding the extended Smith and Ayres family of William Ayres, Gypsy 1806-1872
By Tony Dixon The back cover reads "You now hold in your hand the third book of this series, in which the author's distant ancestor, William Ayres, forms the root of the research. This part of the journey covers subjects which range from Droving and the 'Gypsyries' (as they were known by some) and the yards in Battersea, London, to the re-writing of a personal family history and the forming of ...More Info
Scott: A Search for The Scotts and Circus
A Search For The Scotts & Circus By Anne Stevens As a child Anne Stevens was intrigued by the stories her grandmother told her: memories of horse-drawn vans, jugglers, clowns and equestrians overwintering in the village of Walberswick on the Suffolk coast of England. These were her Scott family. As an adult, Anne has researched these ancestors and the other circus and fairground families...More Info
Dorset People Involved in the Growing of Hemp and Flax, 1782 - 1793
A fiche is included with the book. Includes three printed indexes, for Growers, Churchwardens & Overseers (for parishes where hemp was grown) and Rocognisances. The fiche includes indexes for Bounty claim forms, Newspaper records, Recognisances, Pay lists and Returns. Note that each type of records has only survived for some of the years between 1782 and 1793.