101 Romany Faces: a Collection of Photographs Featuring My Romany Gypsy Family in England between 1750-1950.: Including Beldam, Booth, Boswell, ... Lee, Loveridge, Scamp, Scarrott, Smith.

101 Romany Faces: a Collection of Photographs Featuring My Romany Gypsy Family in England between 1750-1950.: Including Beldam, Booth, Boswell, ... Lee, Loveridge, Scamp, Scarrott, Smith.

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This book contains 101 photographs that show the faces from my Romany Gypsy family. They are all related to each other, however distant that may be. This big family roamed across England, spending a lot of time in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire. They stayed at all the other 'shires' and Essex, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. They were 'the Norwood Gypsies', 'the Gypsies of Epping Forest' and 'the New Forest Gypsies'. There were Gypsy Kings and Gypsy Queens, fiddlers, basket makers, chair bottomers, grinders and skewer makers. They were recorded in art by Queen Victoria, in books by George Borrow, and in poems by John Clare. Acts of parliament made their lives more difficult and many were arrested as vagrants – even for ‘sleeping in a cart in a public place’. Some were transported to Tasmania whilst others married gorgers and disappeared into the local communities.
The photographs contained in this book have been cherished and kept safe over the years by the family descendants of the subjects involved. Distant family members have been contacted and the outcome is this 'family photo album' featuring the faces of our Romany past. This is for us all to keep, enjoy and share with future generations.
  • Publisher: Independently published
  • Dimensions: 15.24 x 0.69 x 22.86 cm
  • Language: English
  • Item weight: 236 g
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • ISBN-13: 979-8398090796
  • Publication date: 13 June 2023
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