Published in January 2018, by the Romany and Traveller Family History Society, this book is the second of a two part in-depth genealogical study of one of the most celebrated and prominent families in Britain’s Romany community, the Boswells. It’s essential background reading for anyone with Romany Boswell ancestors but also for those whose relatives intermarried with or travelled with this widespread family, guiding the reader through from the Boswells’ likely origins during the English Civil War when Romany people were hunted down, and persecuted with puritanical fever, to their subsequent growth and development in the heady and dangerous days of the Georgian era, the height of the English prize ring, the footpad and the dashing highwayman, and through to the dawn of the Regency period.
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A4, 178 pages, Fully Name Indexed with numerous illustrations in black and white and colour.
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PUBLISHED BY THE ROMANY AND TRAVELLER FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
MARCH 2018
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Available from http://rtfhs.org.uk
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Buyer Feedback and Reviews
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Great job of locating these old records! Blows my mind. - Review, Facebook, 2018
From your research, I now know that I have Blewitt blood: I owe you great thanks for identifying a Blewitt/Smith marriage that pushes back my ancestry a further two generations on a somewhat dormant line that I had put aside a couple of decades ago through lack of progress. - Email, 2018
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I just wanted to write and say how much I've enjoyed your first two books on the early Boswells. I will most certainly be purchasing the rest of the books in the series. - Email, Spring 2018
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​​Other families mentioned in this volume include:
Allen
Armstrong
Ayres/Eyres
Bannister
Barnes
Bailey
Bates
Beard
Beldham/Beldom
Berry
Blewitt/Blewett/Bluitt/Bluett
Bocking
Boiling/Boyling
Brinkley
Brown
Brugman
Buckland/Buckley/Buckle
Burton
Butler
Chilcott/Chilcock/Silcock
Clarke
Claydon
Coates
Cooper
Costello
Curtis
Davis/Davies
Deago
Dicks/Dix
Dodo
Doe
Donea
Draper
Evans
Farnando
Faw/Faa
Fawtree
Finch
Fingo
Foster
Fowler
Gray/Grey
Gregory
Green
Hall
Harrison
Hearn[e]/Hern[e]/Ern/Heron/Herrin[g]/Herren
Henley
Hercoat
Hilton
Holt
Hughes
Husbands
Ingram
James
Jones
King
Knight
Lee/Leigh
Linyan/Linian
Lock/Locke/Locks
Lovell
Loveridge
Mason
Morrell
Nelson
Newcomb
Newberry/Newbury/Rewbrey
Parker
Pearse
Phillips
Price
Revill/Revell
Scamp/Skamp/Skemp/Kemp
Shandley
Sherriff
Smith
Stanley
Stevens/Stephens
Swales
Taylor
Volantine/Volantyne
Wainright
Watts
Waylan
White
Wilkinson
Williams
Wilshaw
Wood/Woods
Woodall
Young
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