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    Due to so much interest in my site and with so many people sending in Pictures and other stories and references .I felt it was best to add another site which covers just Census Entries /Parish Records and other Parochial finds and also Newspaper Articles and Petty sessions entries and in fact all types of records where Romanies were found or mentioned ! Hopefully in this way it will be easier for you to search the Data and less confusing ! It will also enable me to have more Photo's on my main site ! which I know you all like ! This site can be found by searching in a search engine  http://romanygenes2.webeden.co.uk  . But also from this site in the link above top right so that while on my main site if you want to go to the Census and other records just click the link RomanyGenes 2   (Will take me a few days to get stuff on the site !!bear with me!)ROMANY FOLKI KEEP COMING BACK ! ADDING MORE ON A DAILY BASIS!!!Latcho Divvus or as some say Kushti Divvus! To every one with Gypsy Ancestry and also those with a little or none.Welcome to my first web page!You will have to bear with me while I learn the basics! I hope to give a little insight into Romany Genealogy to anyone who may be just starting out,or if you have been doing it for many years like me,well you never know maybe you will find some info you haven't already got.In any case its just an informal site,I have been researching not just Romany family History but also non Romany, but my main line of interest is the Romany History and culture of what I call the English Romany or "Romanichal"s this is what most of the travellers I speak too describe themselves as, and after nearly 600 years in this country they have become part of our heritage and history,while at the same time its important to record and remember their past and the hard times they had as well as the good times. First a brief short history of the Romany; I feel it’s not necessary to repeat much of what has previously been written on this subject, as my main research lines,are the Gypsies of Hampshire and Dorset who have settled in the area, and were mainly from the Nevi Wesh (New Forest).The Gypsies arrival in Britain was first recorded in 1505 in Scotland and 1514 in England. At Hampshire Record Office the earliest known document they have of Gypsies in the County,is an entry in Chawton's parish records for 1638.The people called Gypsies spread into England from the Continent but they were probably in Europe much earlier, but because they were not recorded or written about,then we must base our dates on the evidence which we have.Because of their lifestyle of roaming,catching their own food and making their own medicines from nature’s garden, the Gypsies were naturally at home in the forests of England,one of which was the New Forest or Nevi-Wesh. For many hundreds of years it was a much loved home, mainly due to its abundance of herbs and other medicinal plants and,of course, its wild game and springs of fresh water. By the end of the 19th century,they could still be found living in tents and wagons at Shave Green, Godshill, Copythorne, Longdown,Thorney Hill, Millersford Bottom and Crystal Hollow,as well as other places in the Forest.There were also a few places outside the forest which were popular with the Gypsies, such as Bournemouth,Poole and Fordingbridge on the edge of the forest and all of the Cranborne Chase area. The Romany people have survived and retained their culture and history, through mainly oral stories and family history handed down through the family as many or most could not read or write,so it was often tales and stories told round the yog (fire) that helped the old Romany Rai's like George Borrow and John Sampson and George Hall record many of the Genealogies of the old Romany families which were prominant in their time such as :- Stanley/Wood/Cooper/Cole/Hearn/Heron/Boswell/Lee/Lovell/Loveridge/Penfold/Buckland/Buckley/Draper/Smith/Shaw/Small/James/and of course many more!We are lucky now in that we have available to us online,the Census and Civil Registrations,plus many online Parish Records which provide us with an easy cross reference method, all though if you cant find what you were expecting to find its always worth double checking with the original records as I have found many finds in the original records, but they are not recorded on Ancestry or other online records like the IGI or Census records.Over the course of 25 years I have collected and recorded a vast amount of data on all the well known Romany families from all over England butI have centred mainly on the West Country and Hampshire and Dorset Romanies.But I have also researched the Midland and Northern Romanies as well, as some of my friends have connections to the Hearns/Heron/ Boswell/Smith /Grays/Hodgekins/Hopes etc, but as there is already an excellent site dealing with the Grays and other Midland Counties,then by doing both we can hopefully help more people. There will inevitably be some mistakes - as with parish records I have not necessarily transcribed all the information found in the records,and from time to time there is bound to be a typo error from me!!so please excuse me,and let me know to put it right, please email me if you see any of your family on my pages to either add or correct me Kushti Bokt. (good luck) Individual image copyrights are fully respected and remain strictly the property of the photo owner. Why not add your photo to the gallery? Please feel free to send in your photo/s with any historical details to add to the gallery.Simply send photo to :- romanygenes@aol.com All photo image copyrights fully respected. If you wish to have your photo removed or changed, please email me with the reference number or name of photo,and I will do this immediately.Thank you.  This is just one of the unique hand coloured magic Lantern slides c1884 taken by Rev Augustus Wright centre picture, they give a glimpse of the hop pickers and their surroundings. (Courtesy of Hampshire Museum Services).On the left is "luvvie" (Lavinia) Cooper and on the right is Hannah Lakey "Queen of the New Forest Gypsies " by John G.Short .

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