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A Brief History of Irish Travellers, Ireland’s Only Indigenous Minority

After a long battle, Irish Travellers were finally officially recognised as an indigenous ethnic minority by Ireland’s government in early March 2017. Here, Culture Trip takes a look at the origins of the Irish Travelling community and how the historic ruling came about. At the time of the 2011 census , there were around 29,500 Irish Travellers in the Irish Republic , making up 0.6% of the population. The community was found to be unevenly distributed across the country, with the highest number living in County Galway and South Dublin. Although – as the name suggests – Irish Travellers have historically been a nomadic people, the census showed a majority living in private dwellings.

Throughout Irish history, the Travelling community has been markedly separated from the general Irish population, resulting in widespread stereotyping and discrimination. The same year as the census, a survey conducted by Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute found that Irish Travellers suffer widespread ostracism; this and other factors have been shown to contribute to high levels of mental health problems among Irish Travellers. Indeed, the 2010 All Ireland Traveller Health Study found their suicide rate to be six times the national average, accounting for a shocking 11% of Traveller deaths.

Through the 2011 census, members of the Travelling community were also found to have poorer general health, higher rates of disability and significantly lower levels of education as compared to the general population, with seven out of 10 Irish Travellers educated only to primary level or lower.

Because of a lack of written history, the exact origins of the Irish Travelling Community have been difficult to clarify. Although it had been hypothesised, until relatively recently, that Irish Travellers may be linked to the Romani people, a genetic study released in February of this year revealed this connection to be false.

The study found that Travellers are of Irish ancestral origin, but split off from the general population sometime around the mid-1600s – much earlier than had been thought previously. In one widely quoted finding, the DNA comparisons conducted in the course of the research found that while Irish Travellers originated in Ireland, they are genetically different from ‘settled’ Irish people, to the same degree as people from Spain.

The results of the study, conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, contributed significantly to Irish Travellers being officially designated an ethnic minority, defined as a group within a community with different national or cultural traditions from the main population.

Speaking to RTE on the day of the ruling, former director of the Irish Traveller Movement Brigid Quilligan said, ‘We want every Traveller in Ireland to be proud of who they are and to say that we’re not a failed set of people. We have our own unique identity, and we shouldn’t take on all of the negative aspects of what people think about us. We should be able to be proud and for that to happen our State needed to acknowledge our identity and our ethnicity, and they’re doing that today.’

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Gene study reveals Irish Travellers' ancestry

Irish Travellers are of Irish ancestral origin and have no particular genetic ties to European Roma groups, a DNA study has found.

The research offers the first estimates of when the community split from the settled Irish population, giving a rare glimpse into their history and heritage.

Researchers led by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the University of Edinburgh analysed genetic information from 42 people who identified as Irish Travellers.

The team compared variations in their DNA code with that of 143 European Roma, 2,232 settled Irish, 2,039 British and 6,255 European or worldwide individuals.

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They found that Travellers are of Irish ancestral origin but have significant differences in their genetic make-up compared with the settled community.

These differences have arisen because of hundreds of years of isolation combined with a decreasing Traveller population, the researchers say.

The findings confirm that the Irish Traveller population has an Irish ancestry and this comes at a time where the ethnicity of Travellers is being considered by the Irish State. Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

The team estimates the group began to separate from the settled population at least 360 years ago.

Their findings dispute the theory that Travellers were displaced by the Great Famine, which struck Ireland in 1845.

It is exciting to find that the Irish Travellers have been genetically isolated for such a considerable time. They hold great potential for understanding common diseases, not just within their own community but also more generally. I hope very much that further funding will allow us to study the genetics of the Travellers in more detail. Professor Jim Wilson Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics

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There are estimated to be up to 40,000 Travellers living in Ireland, which represents less than one per cent of the population.

Little is known about the group's heritage and there is scant documentary evidence of their history.

The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Kin Groups and Descent. The basic structural unit as well as the primary unit of production and consumption is the nuclear family. Descent is bilateral with individuals having equal rights and obligations toward both their maternal and paternal kin. The importance of cognatic kinship is reflected in the use of Eskimo kinship terminology; in flexibility and choice in residence patterns, with households alternately affiliating with either the husband's or the wife's kin (although a preference for husband's kin is evident), or with nonkin, or else living on their own; and the absence of corporate kin groups.

Marriage. Travellers marry at an earlier age than the general Irish population. In the past, most marriages were "matches" or arranged marriages negotiated by the couple's parents, typically between families who traveled in the same counties. Today, in urban areas, individual choice is much more common. But initially with the move to the city, the number of arranged marriages between close kin—first and second cousins—actually increased, as parents responded to the new experience of living in close proximity to Travellers from other parts of the country whom they barely knew.

Domestic Unit. Traveller families range in size from 1 to 19 persons. The median family size is 6, but 36 percent of Travellers live in families of 10 or more persons.

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Genomic insights into the population structure and history of the Irish Travellers

• Edmund Gilbert 1 ,
• Shai Carmi 2 ,
• Sean Ennis 3 ,
• James F. Wilson 4 , 5   na1 &
• Gianpiero L. Cavalleri 1   na1  

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The Irish Travellers are a population with a history of nomadism; consanguineous unions are common and they are socially isolated from the surrounding, ‘settled’ Irish people. Low-resolution genetic analysis suggests a common Irish origin between the settled and the Traveller populations. What is not known, however, is the extent of population structure within the Irish Travellers, the time of divergence from the general Irish population, or the extent of autozygosity. Using a sample of 50 Irish Travellers, 143 European Roma, 2232 settled Irish, 2039 British and 6255 European or world-wide individuals, we demonstrate evidence for population substructure within the Irish Traveller population, and estimate a time of divergence before the Great Famine of 1845–1852. We quantify the high levels of autozygosity, which are comparable to levels previously described in Orcadian 1 st /2 nd cousin offspring, and finally show the Irish Traveller population has no particular genetic links to the European Roma. The levels of autozygosity and distinct Irish origins have implications for disease mapping within Ireland, while the population structure and divergence inform on social history.

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Introduction.

The Irish Travellers are a community within Ireland, consisting of between 29,000–40,000 individuals, representing 0.6% of the Irish population as a whole 1 . They are traditionally nomadic, moving around rural Ireland and providing seasonal labour, as well as participating in horse-trading and tin-smithing 2 . Since the 1950’s the need for such traditional services has declined 3 , and the population has become increasingly urban, with the majority living within a fixed abode 1 . Despite this change in lifestyle, the Traveller community remains tight-knit but also socially isolated. The population has its own language 4 , known as Shelta, of which Cant and Gammon are dialects.

There is a lack of documentary evidence informing on the history of the Irish Traveller population 5 , 6 . As a result, their origins are a source of considerable debate, with no single origin explanation being widely accepted. It has been suggested that the Irish Travellers are a hybrid population between settled Irish and Romani gypsies, due to the similarities in their nomadic lifestyle. Other, “Irish Origin”, hypothesised sources of the Irish Travellers include; displacement from times of famine (such as between 1740–1741, or the Great Famine of 1845–1852), or displacement from the time of Cromwellian (1649–53) or the Anglo-Norman conquests (1169 to 1240). The Irish Traveller population may even pre-date these events, and represent Celtic or pre-Celtic isolates 4 . These models of ethnogenesis are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and the Irish Traveller population may have multiple sources of origin with a shared culture.

Consanguineous marriages are common within the Irish Traveller community 7 , 8 . Small, isolated and endogamous populations such as the Travellers are also more prone to the effects of genetic drift. The isolation and consanguinity have in turn led to an increased prevalence of recessive diseases 7 , 9 , 10 , with higher incidences of diseases such as transferase-deficient galactosaemia 11 , 12 , and Hurler syndrome 13 observed in the Traveller population relative to the settled Irish. However, the extent of autozygosity within the population has yet to be quantified; as a result it is unknown how homozygous the population is compared to other, better-studied, isolated European populations.

Previous work into the genetics of the Irish Traveller population has been conducted on datasets of relatively low genetic resolution. A recent study used blood groups to investigate the population history of the Irish Travellers 2 . Multivariate analysis of genotype data across 12 red blood cell loci in 119 Irish Travellers suggested that the population clustered closely with the settled Irish to the exclusion of the Roma. They did, however, appear divergent from the settled Irish. The authors attributed the source of such divergence to genetic drift - but were unable to determine whether any such drift was due to a founder effect, or sustained endogamy. Studies of Mendelian diseases suggest that pathogenic mutations in the settled Irish population are often the same as those observed in the Traveller population such is the case for tranferase-deficient galactosaemia (Q118R in the GALT gene 11 ) and Hurlers Syndrome (W402X, in the α-l-iduronidase gene 13 ).

Using dense, genome-wide, SNP datasets which provide much greater resolution than genetic systems studied in the Travellers to date, we set out to i) describe the genetic structure within the Traveller population, ii) the relationship between the Irish Travellers and other European populations, iii) estimate the time of divergence between the Travellers and settled Irish, and iv) the levels of autozygosity within the Irish Traveller population.

Population Structure of the Irish Travellers

In order to investigate the genetic relationship between the Irish Travellers and neighbouring populations we performed fineStructure analysis on Irish Travellers, settled Irish from a subset of the Trinity Student dataset 14 , and British from a subset of the POBI dataset 15 . A subset of the datasets were used in this analysis as we were primarily interested in the placing of the Irish Travellers within the context of Britain and Ireland, not the full structure found within Britain and Ireland. The results are presented in Fig. 1 in the form of a principal component analysis of fineStructure’s haplotype-based co-ancestry matrix (1A) and a dendrogram of the fineStructure clusters (1B).

( A ) The first and second components of principal component analysis of the haplotype-based co-ancestry matrix produced by fineStructure analysis. Individual clusters are indicated by colour and shape. Individual Irish Travellers are indicated with black bordered shapes, with cluster shown in Legend. ( B ) The full fineStructure tree with the highest posterior probability, with cluster size and name, and broad branches shown.

We observe that 31 of 34 of the Irish Travellers cluster on the Irish branch, indicating a strong affinity with an Irish population ancestral to the current day “Traveller” and “settled” populations ( Fig. 1B ). One “Irish Traveller” is found within the Borders 1 cluster, and two are found within the Borders 2 cluster. These three individuals report full, or partial, English gypsie ancestry, a distinct and separate travelling population in Britain. One individual is found within the Ireland 1 cluster, and two are found within the Ireland 2 cluster. Traveller individuals within the Ireland 2 cluster report recent settled ancestry, and we have no such genealogical data on the individual grouped within the Ireland 1 cluster. Given their mixed ancestry, these individuals were excluded from subsequent F st , f 3 , and divergence estimate work.

The remaining 28 Irish Travellers in the fineStructure analysis were arranged into four clusters. These clusters were grouped on two separate branches ( Fig. 1B ), with Traveller 1 (n = 7) and Traveller 2 (n = 5) on the same branch, and Traveller 3 (n = 5) and Traveller 4 (n = 11) on a separate branch. The branch with clusters Traveller 3 and 4 , forms an outgroup to the rest of the settled Irish and Irish Traveller clusters. These two branches of Irish Traveller clusters align closely with the split of Irish Travellers observed through PCA ( Fig. S1 ). All the individuals who separate on the first principal component (henceforth “PCA group B”) are found in clusters Traveller 3 and 4 ( Fig. S2A ), and nearly all the individuals who remain grouped with the settled Irish on principle component 1 (henceforth “PCA group A”) are found in clusters Traveller 1 and 2 ( Fig. S2A ). The remaining PCA group A individuals are those Irish Travellers found in the aforementioned settled Irish or British clusters. This pattern is also repeated in the PCA ( Fig. 1A ), where members of Traveller 1 and 2 cluster with the settled Irish, where Traveller 3 and 4 individuals cluster separately.

Having identified distinct genetic groups of Irish Travellers, we investigated the correlation with Irish Traveller sociolinguistic features, specifically Shelta dialect, and Rathkeale residence ( Fig. S2B ,C, respectively). The majority of the Gammon speakers were members of clusters Traveller 1 and 2. All of Traveller 1 consisted of Gammon speakers. The majority of clusters Traveller 3 and 4 consisted of Cant speakers, where all but one individual, for whom language identity is unknown, of Traveller 4 were Cant speakers. We found that only clusters Traveller 1 and 2 contain any Rathkeale Travellers, where 4 out of 5 individuals in Traveller 2 are Rathkeale Travellers.

We next investigated population structure using the maximum-likelihood estimation of individual ancestries using ADMIXTURE ( Figs 2 and S3). For this analysis we used a subset of the European Multiple Sclerosis dataset consisting of three northern European (Norway, Finland and Germany), two southern European (Italy and Spain), and a neighbouring population (France). We categorised the POBI British as English, Scottish, Welsh, and Orcadian. We further separated out the Irish Travellers to those in PCA group A and those in PCA group B.

Shown are the ancestry components per individual for the two groups of Irish Travellers (Group A and Group B), settled Irish, British, and European populations; modelling for 4 to 6 ancestral populations.

At k  = 4–6 ( Fig. 2 ), we observe the well-described north-south divide in the European populations ( k  = 4), as well as Finland and Orkney ( k  = 5) differentiating due to their respective populations’ bottleneck and isolation. Although at lower values of k the Irish Travellers generally resemble the settled Irish profile ( Fig. S3 ), at higher values of k two components are found to be enriched within the population. Each of these components is enriched in one of the two Irish Traveller PCA groups. Individuals with more than 20% of the “red” component when k = 5 belong to PCA group B and individuals with near 100% of “blue” component all belong to PCA group A ( Fig. 2 ). The fact that even at k  = 3 PCA group B gains its own ancestral component ( Fig. S3 ) suggests strong group-specific genetic drift.

In order to investigate a possible Roma Gyspie origin of the Irish Travellers, we compared the Irish Travellers, and settled Irish to a dataset of Roma populations found within Europe 16 using PCA and ADMIXTURE. The results broadly agree, with the Irish Travellers clustering with the settled Irish in the PCA plot, and resembling the settled Irish profile in ADMIXTURE analysis (see Fig. 3 ). There was no evidence for a recent ancestral component between the Irish Traveller and Roma populations. In addition, we formally tested evidence of admixture with f 3 statistics in the form of f 3 (Irish Traveller; Settled Irish, Roma). We found no evidence of admixture either when considering all the Roma as one population, or in each individual Roma population’s case (all f3 estimates were positive).

( A ) The first and second components from principal component analysis using gcta64. ( B ) The ancestry profiles using ADMIXTURE, assuming 2 to 4 ancestral populations.

Given the apparent structure between the Travellers and the settled Irish populations, we quantified genetic distance using F st and “outgroup” f 3 statistics. F st analysis reveals a considerable genetic distance between the settled Irish and the Irish Traveller population (F st  = 0.0034, Table S1 ) which is comparable to values observed between German and Italian, or Scotland and Spain.

In order to further investigate sub-structure within the Irish Travellers, we performed F st analysis on the Irish Traveller PCA (n = 2) and fineStructure (n = 4) groups, comparing them to the settled Irish (see also Table S1 ). The individuals belonging to cluster PCA group B are considerably more genetically distant from the settled Irish (F st  = 0.0086), relative to PCA group A (F st  = 0.0036). This could be explained by distinct founder events for PCA groups A and B, or that PCA group B has experienced greater genetic drift. The F st estimates of the Irish Traveller clusters are higher than the PCA groups. The estimates of clusters Traveller 1, 2 , and 3 range from 0.0052 to 0.0054. However, Traveller 4 shows the highest F st value (F st  = 0.0104), suggesting this cluster of individuals is responsible for the inflation of the PCA group B’s estimate. Generally, however, these results suggest that the general Irish Traveller population does not have a very recent source, i.e. within 5 generations or so. If we perform the same F st analysis on two random groups of settled Irish see observe a F st value < 1∙10 −5 .

To inform on whether lineage-specific drift is influencing the observed genetic distances between the Irish Travellers, the settled Irish and other neighbouring populations, we performed outgroup f 3 analysis, using HGDP Yorubans as the outgroup. Such analysis can inform on whether PCA group B and Traveller 4 do indeed represent an older Irish Traveller group, or a sub-group that has experienced more intense drift. When we compare PCA groups A/B to the settled Irish we see no significant difference between the two groups (see Table S2 , A:settled f 3  = 0.1694 (stderr = 0.0013), B:settled f 3  = 0.1698 (stdrr = 0.0013), A:B f 3  = 0.1700 (stderr = 0.0013)); with similar results for the fineStructure clusters ( Table S2 ). These results suggest that PCA group B has experienced more drift than PCA group A, inflating the F st statistic, which in turn has inflated the Irish Traveller population F st . We note however that f 3 statistics may not be sensitive enough to detect differences from settled Irish to Traveller PCA groups A and B should the difference between A and B be a relatively limited number of generations.

A key question in the history of the Travellers is the period of time for which the population has been isolated from the settled Irish. In order to address this we utilized two methods, one based on linkage disequilibrium patterns and F st (which we call T F ), and one based on Identity-by-Descent (IBD) patterns (which we call T IBD ).

The T F method estimates the divergence to be 40 (±2 std.dev – obtained via bootstrapping) generations. Assuming an average generation time of 30 years the T F method estimates that the divergence occurred 1200 (±60 – std.dev) years ago. The method also estimates the harmonic mean N e for the two populations over the last 2000 years. The Irish Traveller estimate (1395, std.dev = 16 – obtained via bootstrapping) is considerably lower than the settled Irish estimate (6162, std.err = 122 – obtained via bootstrapping). However, the isolation of the Irish Travellers will artificially increase the F st value and consequently inflate the T F divergence estimate. We therefore estimated the divergence time with a different IBD-based method; as such an approach can accommodate genetic drift.

We first identified IBD segment sharing within and between the Irish Travellers and our settled Irish subset. The Irish Travellers were found to share 35-fold more genetic material IBD (in cM per pair) than the settled population ( Fig. 4A ). Specifically, a pair of Travellers share, on average, 5.0 segments of mean length 12.9 cM, compared to 0.4 segments of mean length 4.9 cM for the settled population ( Fig. 4A ; segments with length >3 cM). Additionally we compared IBD sharing within and between the two PCA groups; A and B ( Fig. 4B ). We observe a greater amount of IBD segments shared within PCA group B than PCA group A. These sharing patterns are not due to familial sharing, as we have previously removed individuals with close kinship (see Supplementary Methods 1.3 ). Sharing between settled and Traveller Irish was of similar extent to that within the settled group ( Fig. 4A ), with no significant difference between the PCA groups A and B (p = 0.12, using permutations, for the difference in the number of segments shared with the settled) ( Fig. S4 ). We used the number and lengths of segments shared within settled, within Travellers, and between the groups to estimate the demographic history of those populations, and in particular, the split time between these two groups.

( A ) The number and lengths of shared segments within Settled Irish, within Traveller Irish, and between the groups. Left panel: The mean segment length; middle panel: the mean number of shared segments; right panel: the mean total sequence length (in cM) shared between each pair of individuals. ( B ) The number and lengths of shared segments within Traveller Group A, Traveller Group B, and between the groups. The format of the figure is as in ( A ).

Briefly, we used the method developed in Palamara et al . 17 (see also Zidan et al . 18 ). We assumed a demographic model for the two populations ( Fig. 5A ), in which an ancestral Irish population has entered a period of exponential expansion before the ancestors of the present day settled Irish and Irish Travellers split. After this split, the settled Irish continued the exponential expansion, whilst the Irish Travellers experienced an exponential population contraction. We then computed the expected proportion of the genome found in shared segments of different length intervals using the theory of ref. 17 , and found the parameters of the demographic model that best fitted the data (see Supplementary Data 1.3 , Fig. 5B , and Table 1 ).

( A ) The model used for demographic inference. The two populations were one ancestral population, with size N e , T G generations ago. At this point the ancestral population started to grow exponentially until T S generations ago, where the ancestral Traveller and settled populations split from each other, with N S,T being the initial starting population size of the Traveller population. The settled population experienced continued exponential growth until the present, with a population size of N C,S . The Traveller population experienced a period of exponential contraction until the present, with a population of N C,T . ( B ) The proportion of the genome in IBD segments vs the IBD segments length. The total genome size and the sum of segment lengths were computed in cM. Left: sharing between pairs of settled Irish; middle: sharing between pairs of one settled and one Traveller individuals; right: sharing between pairs of Traveller Irish. Each data point is located at the harmonic mean of the boundaries of the length interval it represents.

The results of the model suggest the Irish Travellers and settled Irish separation occurred 12 generations ago (95% CI: 8–14). The results also support opposite trends in the effective population sizes (N e ) of the settled and Traveller Irish since that split: while the settled population has expanded rapidly, the Irish Travellers have contracted (see Table 1 ). When restricting to the 12 members of PCA group A, the split time was estimated to be 15 generations ago (95% CI: 13–18) ( Table 2 ). When restricting to the 16 members of PCA group B, the split time was 10 generations ago (95% CI: 3–14). We stress these results should be seen as the best fitting projection of the true history into a simplified demographic model, in particular given the limited sample sizes.

Runs of Homozygosity

Consanguinity is common within the Irish Traveller population, and in this context we quantified the levels of homozygosity compared to settled Irish and world-wide populations 19 . We calculated the average total extent of homozygosity of each population using four categories of minimum length of Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) (1/5/10/16 Mb). Elevated ROH levels between 1 and 5 Mb are indicative of a historical smaller population size. Elevated ROH levels over 10 Mb, on the other hand, are reflective of more recent consanguinity in an individuals’ ancestry 10 . We also include average figures for the European Roma in the Irish Traveller – European analysis. Full European Roma ROH profiles are shown in Figure S5 .

As expected, the Irish Travellers present a significantly higher amount of homozygosity compared to the other outbred populations and to the European isolates the French Basque and Sardinian, which is sustained through to the larger cutoff categories of 10–16 Mb (see Fig. 6 ). Our results for the other world-wide populations agree with previous estimates 10 , with the Native American Karitiana showing the most autozygosity, and the Papuan population showing an excess of short ROHs. Two other consanguineous populations, the Balochi and Druze show slightly more homozygosity than the Irish Travellers, and the European Roma are most similar to the Travellers for both shorter and longer ROH.

Shown, across four minimum lengths of runs of homozygosity (ROH), are the average lengths of ROH in each population. The average ROH burdens for the European Roma are the mean of means across the 13 Roma populations studied. These values are from a separate analysis, and collated with the wider European ROH values for reasons of SNP coverage between the different datasets.

These results indicate a higher level of background relatedness in the Irish Traveller population history. The high levels of ROH larger than 10 Mb in length reflect recent parental relatedness within the population. This is supported by the average F ROH5 in the Irish Travellers (F ROH5  = 0.015), which is slightly lower but comparable to the F ROH5 score found among Orcadian offspring of 1 st /2 nd cousins (F ROH5  = 0.017) 20 .

Finally, in order to explore the potential of the Irish Traveller population for studying rare, functional variation for disease purposes, we tested minor allele frequency (MAF) differences between the settled Irish and the Irish Travellers from a common dataset of 560,256 common SNPs for 36 Traveller, and 2232 settled Irish individuals. We observed 24,670 SNPs with a MAF between 0.02–0.05 in the settled Irish population. We found that 3.29% of these SNPs had a MAF >0.1 in the Irish Traveller population. We tested the significance of this observation by calculating the same percentage, but taking a random 36 settled Irish sample instead of 36 Irish Travellers. We repeated this 1000 times and found no samples (p =< 0.001) with a greater percentage than 3.29 (mean = 1.3, std.dev = 0.11). This has additional implications for disease mapping within Ireland, as a proportion of the functional variants in the settled Irish population will be observed at a higher frequency in the Traveller population.

We have, using high-density genome-wide SNP data on 42 Irish Traveller individuals, investigated the genetic relationship between the Travellers and neighbouring populations and another nomadic European population, the Roma. For the first time we have estimated a time of divergence of the Irish Travellers from the general Irish population, and have also quantified the extent of autozygosity within the population.

We report that the Irish Traveller population has an ancestral Irish origin, closely resembling the wider Irish population in the context of other European cohorts. This is consistent with previous observations made using a limited number of classical markers 2 , 4 . In both our fineStructure and ADMIXTURE analyses, the Traveller population clusters predominantly with the settled Irish. Our fineStructure tree qualitatively agrees with the topology presented by Leslie et al . 21 , although there are some differences. For example, in the tree presented here, the Irish and individuals from south-west Scotland are grouped on one branch, with the rest of Scotland and England placed on a separate branch. fineStructure tree building is sensitive to the sample size, and due to the larger proportion of Irish genomes in our analysis, compared to Leslie et al .’s analysis (300 versus 44), it is not surprising that the Irish branch is placed differently.

We observe substructure within the Irish Traveller population, identifying (via fineStructure) four genetic clusters occupied only by Irish Travellers ( Fig. 1B ). These clusters align with the broad two way split in the Irish Traveller population we observe via allele frequency based PCA ( Fig. S1 ). In addition, our fineStructure clusters reflect sociolinguistic affinities of the population, membership of the Rathkeale group ( Traveller 2), and speakers of the Cant ( Traveller 4 ) or Gammon ( Traveller1 ) dialects of Shelta ( Fig. S2 ). Our results, therefore, suggest that these groups represent genuine structure within the Irish Traveller population, rather than having by chance sampled broad family groups.

Several Irish Traveller individuals in the fineStructure analysis show an affinity either with British or settled Irish, demonstrating some genetic heterogeneity within the Irish Traveller population. This heterogeneity can be explained by recent settled ancestry or ancestry with other Travelling groups within Britain and Ireland. However, the existence of sole Irish Traveller genetic clusters suggest that there is some sub-structure within the population, and a larger follow up study is warranted to elucidate the extent of this structure, and the representative nature of the observed clusters.

It appears that the Traveller population has experienced lineage-specific drift, as demonstrated by the discordant F st and f 3 estimates between the Travellers and the settled Irish. F st estimates of Traveller to Settled Irish genetic distance are comparable to that we observed between the Ireland and Spain ( Table S1 ). However, when we estimate using f 3 statistics (which is less sensitive to lineage-specific drift) the genetic distance, is reduced, and comparable to that observed between Irish and Scots. The theory of lineage-specific drift is also supported by the IBD analysis, which demonstrates very high levels of haplotype sharing within the Traveller population. Indeed, much of the overall genetic differentiation of the Travellers from the settled Irish is driven by the high F st distance between the Irish Traveller PCA group B (specifically the Traveller 4 cluster), and the settled Irish. This suggests that some subgroups within the Irish Travellers may have experienced greater genetic drift than others.

The dating of the origin of the Irish Travellers is of considerable interest, but this is distinct from the origins of each population. We have estimated the point of divergence between the Traveller and the settled Irish population using two different methods. Our LD-based (T F ) method estimates a split 40 (±2 std.err) generations ago, or 1200 (±60 – std.err) years ago (assuming a generation time of 30 years). Our IBD-based method (T IBD ) estimates 12 (8–14) generations, or 360 (240–420) years ago. However both estimates suggest that the Irish Travellers split from the settled population at least 200 years ago. The Irish Great Famine (1845–1852) is often proposed as a/the source of the Irish Traveller population, but results presented here are not supportive of this particular interpretation. The T IBD method suggested differences between the PCA groups; whilst PCA group A seems to have split relatively early and remained relatively large, PCA group B seems to have split off more recently and quickly decline in size ( Table 2 ). This might explain the higher degrees of genetic differentiation we see in PCA group B in our F st and f 3 analyses.

An important limitation of our dating analysis is that both the T IBD and T F approaches assume a single origin source, but there may have been multiple founding events contributing to the population present today. Both methods are further limited in that they do not model for subsequent gene flow in to the population. We would also consider the T F date to be inflated, given the lineage-specific drift we and others have illustrated in the Traveller population, and its corresponding impact on F st calculation. In the case of the T IBD method, the sample size of the Irish Traveller cohort was too small to infer more complex demographic models (e.g. post-split gene flow or multiple epochs of growth/contraction for each group), due to the risk of over-fitting. A larger dataset is required to explore the possibility of dating distinct events for the Traveller clusters our analysis has resolved.

One of the hypothesised sources of the Irish Travellers is that they are a hybrid population between the settled Irish and the Roma. The results of our ADMIXTURE analysis would not support such a hypothesis, with none of the self-identified Irish Travellers showing ancestry components specific to the Roma populations. We did however detect one individual showing a significant proportion of a Roma-specific ancestral component. This individual self-reported Gypsie ancestry, and did not cluster with the clusters of sole Irish Traveller membership.

We have presented the first population-based assessment of autozygosity within the Irish Traveller population. Compared to other cosmopolitan populations, we observe within the Irish Travellers an excess of ROH and IBD segments. The ROH profile of the Irish Travellers is comparable to other consanguineous populations such as the Balochi of Pakistan and Druze of the Levant. However, of the populations we tested for ROH, the Irish Travellers were most similar to the European Roma, who are also an endogamous nomadic community. This, and the F ROH5 statistic for the Irish Travellers, agrees with previous observations of endogamy within the Irish Travellers 7 , 8 . Our homozygosity results would account for the well-documented higher prevalence of recessive disease within the Irish Traveller community 11 , 13 , 22 . The levels of homozygosity have clear importance in the medical genetics of the Irish Traveller population and together with the drift of rarer variants to higher frequencies in the Irish Travellers may greatly aid in the identification of rarer variants contributing to the risk of common disease within Ireland 23 , both for the settled and the travelling populations.

In summary, we confirm an ancestral Irish origin for the Irish Traveller population, and describe for the first time the genetics of the population using high-density genome-wide genotype data. We observe substructure within the population, a high degree of homozygosity and evidence of the “jackpot effect” of otherwise rare variants drifting to higher frequencies, both of which are of interest to disease mapping and complex trait genetics in Ireland. Finally we provide important insight to the demographic history of the Irish Traveller population, where we have estimated a divergence time for the Irish Travellers from the settled Irish to be at least 8 generations ago.

Materials and Methods

Study populations.

We assembled five distinct datasets; the Irish Travellers (n = 50), the Irish Trinity Student Controls 14 (n = 2232), the People of the British Isles dataset 15 (n = 2039), a dataset of individuals with European ancestry 24 (n = 5964), individuals with Roma ancestry 16 (n = 143), and a dataset of world-wide populations 19 (n = 931). For more details of each dataset, see Supplementary Data 1.1 .

The Irish Traveller cohort and data presented here were analysed within the guidelines and regulations put forward by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Research Committee, and approved by the same Committee (reference number REC 1069). A waive of informed consent was granted by this Committee under an amendment of the same ethics reference number.

Quality Control of Genotype Data

Each of the five cohorts was individually processed through a number of quality control steps using the software PLINK 1.9 25 , 26 . Only autosomal SNPs were included in the analysis. Individuals or SNPs that had >5% missing genotypes, SNPs with a minor allele frequency (MAF) <2%, and SNPs failing the HWE at significance of <0.001 were discounted from further analysis. Identity-by-Descent (IBD) was calculated between all pairs of individuals in each of the five datasets using the—genome function in plink, and one individual from any pairs that showed 3 rd degree kinship or closer (a pihat score ≥0.09) was removed from further analysis. Amongst the Irish Traveller cohort eight cryptic pairings closer than second-degree cousins were found, leaving 42 individuals for further analysis.

Individuals included from the European ancestry dataset 24 were genotyped as part of a study of multiple sclerosis (MS), which included cases. As the HLA region contains loci strongly associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) 24 , for any analyses that included the European individuals from this MS study we omitted SNPs from a 15 Mb region around the HLA gene region, starting at 22,915,594 to 37,945,593. In order to restrict the MS cohort to individuals of European ancestry, we conducted principal component analysis (PCA) with gcta64 (v1.24.1) 27 and outliers from each of the MS populations were also removed. This left the final 5964 individuals included in the MS European Cohort.

Population Structure

FineStructure 28 analysis was carried out on a combined dataset of Irish Travellers, Trinity Student Irish, and POBI British. As fineStructure is more sensitive to relatedness, instead of the previously described IBD threshold we removed one from each pair with a pihat score >0.06. Additionally we removed SNPs that were either A/T or G/C. This left a combined dataset of 34 Irish Travellers, 300 randomly chosen Irish from the Trinity Student dataset, and 828 British from the POBI dataset. The POBI samples were selected as follows; 500 individuals were chosen from England, and all 131 from Wales, 101 from Scotland, and 96 from Orkney. In order for the English individuals to be as representative as possible of English clusters identified previously 21 , the 500 consisted of; 200 randomly chosen from Central/South England, 50 randomly chosen from each of Devon and Cornwall, and 200 randomly chosen from the north of England. This final combined dataset had a total coverage of 431,048 common SNPs. Further details of the fineStructure analysis pipeline and its parameters are described in Supplementary Data 1.2 .

In order to compare to other population structure visualisation methods we also performed allele frequency-based PCA using the software gcta64 (v1.24.1) 27 . Detailed methods are provided in Supplementary Data 3 . This was applied to the same dataset as the fineStructure analysis, with the exception that we first pruned the dataset with regards to LD using plink 1.9 25 , 26 with the—indep-pairwise command, using a window of 1000 SNPs moving every 50 SNPs, with an r 2 threshold of 0.2. We also removed common SNPs that were either A/T or G/C, leaving 75,214 common SNPs.

Maximum likelihood estimation of individual ancestries was carried out using ADMIXTURE version 1.23 29 and a dataset that had been pruned with respect to LD, as recommended by the authors 29 . This was achieved using plink 1.9 25 , 26 with the—indep-pairwise command, using a window of 1000 SNPs moving every 50 SNPs, with an r 2 threshold of 0.2. For this analysis we used a combined dataset of 42 Irish Travellers, 40 randomly selected Irish individuals from the Trinity Irish cohort, 160 individuals from the POBI dataset (40 randomly chosen English, Welsh, Orcadian, and Scottish individuals), and 40 random individuals from each of the following populations within the MS European dataset; France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, and Spain. The combined dataset consisted of 83,759 SNPs (after the removal of A/T or G/C variants), and 476 individuals.

ADMIXTURE analysis was carried out on k  = 2–7 populations, with 50 iterations of each k value. The iteration with the highest log-likelihood and lowest cross validation score was used for further analysis.

Inter-population fixation indexes between the populations were studied using the Weir and Cockerham method 30 and the combined dataset used in ADMIXTURE analysis. The dataset was pruned with respect to LD using the same parameters as described above, leaving 83,759 common SNPs.

Due to the suspected lineage-specific drift in the Irish Traveller population history, we additionally calculated genetic distance using “outgroup” f 3 -statistics 31 , an extension of the f-statistics framework 32 . f 3 is proportional to the shared genetic drift between two test populations and an outgroup population, and should therefore be less sensitive to the Irish Travellers lineage-specific drift than the F st statistic. We performed this analysis on the same combined dataset used in F st analysis, with the additional inclusion of 21 Yorubans from the HGDP dataset in order to act as an outgroup to the pair-wise comparisons. The combined dataset consisted of 245,594 common SNPs (after the removal of A/T or G/C variants). The outgroup f 3 statistic was calculated using the software within the admixtools package 32 using default settings.

In order to estimate a time of divergence between the Irish Travellers and the settled Irish we utilised two methods. The first, the T F method, is based on a method first described by McEvoy et al . 33 and uses linkage disequilibrium patterns between markers in discrete bins of recombination distances, and genetic distance measured by F st in order to estimate a divergence time. The second, the T IBD method, uses the sharing of Identical by Descent (IBD) segments and demographic modelling using this sharing data to estimate a time of divergence and is based on the methodology previously described in Palamara et al . 17 and applied in Zidan et al . 18 . For more details of both methods, see Supplementary Data 1.3 .

Runs of Homozygosity Analysis

ROH analysis was carried out on a merged dataset of all individuals within the Irish Traveller, Trinity Student, and POBI cohorts, and a subset of the populations found within the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) dataset. The HGDP populations were chosen to be i) representative of world-wide diversity of autozygosity, and ii) to compare the levels of autozygosity of the Irish Travellers to known endogamous populations such as the Balochi and Karitiana. The combined dataset had an overlap of 193,508 common markers.

With the exception of one parameter (the gap between consecutive SNPs, see below), we followed McQuillan et al .’s methodology 20 for the ROH analysis; the window was defined as 1000 kb, moving every 50 SNPs, with 1 heterozygous position allowed and 5 missing positions allowed within the window. The run of homozygosity call criteria were defined as; 1/5/10/16 Mb minimum in length, 100 SNPs minimum within the window, the minimum marker density greater than 50 Kb/SNP. Due to the reduced SNP coverage in this dataset compared to previous analyses 10 , 20 the largest gap between consecutive SNPs before ending a run of homozygosity call was changed to 500 Kb. We calculated F ROH5 as it had previously been shown to strongly correlate with the inbreeding coefficient F PED 20 . F ROH5 was estimated for the 17 populations, as per the equation below.

where S ROH5 is the total length of ROH found in an individual where runs are >5 Mb and L auto is the total length of the autosomal genome (called as 2,673,768 kb here). The F ROH5 was averaged across the individuals to find the population mean of F ROH5 .

Relationship to European Roma

We performed several analyses in order to investigate the relationship between Irish Travellers and European Roma. Firstly, we assembled a merged dataset that included the full Irish Traveller, Trinity Student, and European Roma datasets. We additionally removed any variants that were A/T or G/C. For subsequent PCA and ADMIXTURE analysis the combined Roma dataset was pruned for LD, using a window of 1000 SNPs, moving every 50 SNPs with a r 2 inclusion threshold of 0.2 in PLINK, leaving 66,099 common SNPs.

Secondly, PCA was performed using gcta64 v1.24.1 27 , creating a genetic relationship matrix, and then generating the first 10 principal components. Thirdly we applied ADMIXTURE on a reduced combined dataset that included all Irish Traveller and European Roma individuals, but only 40 of the Trinity Student Irish. ADMIXTURE was used with the same parameters as above, modelling for 2–4 ancestral populations. Finally, we compared the levels of homozygosity between the Irish Travellers, Trinity Student Irish, and European Roma - using the full combined Roma dataset, with 148,362 common SNPs and using the parameters described above.

Thirdly, we formally tested evidence for admixture using admixture f 3 statistics 32 in the form f 3 (Traveller; Settled, Roma) using the full Trinity Irish dataset, a reduced European Roma dataset excluding the Welsh Roma (due to their outlier status in the rest of the dataset 16 ), and a reduced dataset of Irish Travellers belonging to Irish Traveller clusters identified in fineStructure analysis (see Results). This combined dataset consisted of 148,914 SNPs.

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We would like to thank the members of the Irish Traveller population who participated in this study. The work was part funded by a Career Development Award (13/CDA/2223) from Science Foundation Ireland. We would also like to thank, Eoghan O’Halloran for help with data formatting, the Irish Center for High-End Computing (ICHEC) for the provision of computing facilities and support, Dan Lawson for advice and help with fineStructure, Michael McDonagh for helpful comments and insights into linguistic groups with the Irish Travellers, and Sinead Ní Shuinéar for inquiries on groups within the Irish Travellers. SC thanks a private donation from the Barouh and Channah Berkovits Foundation. We thank Liam McGrath and Scratch Films for their support in developing this project. We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments. This study makes use of data 24 generated by the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium. A full list of the investigators who contributed to the generation of the data is available from www.wtccc.org.uk . Funding for the project was provided by the Wellcome Trust under award 76113, 085475 and 090355.

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Scottish and Irish nomads (Celtic Travellers) are more commonly and disrespectfully referred to as Tinkers , Pikeys and Gypos . We are probably distantly related the sedentary Celtic folk, but have split from the general population way back in time with our own proud cultures, languages and unique genetic history still waiting to be told.

This is a copy of the latest Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ABBOTT 1881 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) (Berkshire) ABEL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ABERCROMBIE 1676 Scotland. (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ABERGILL (1821) Staffordshire) ABLENIS Chelsen, Middlesex, Brighton RG10/1075/F? (Middlesex 1901) ABLETH 1708 Northamptonshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ABLETT Redruth-Cornwall ( Scottish 1851 Census) ABNETT 1891 London (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ABRAHAM 1960’s (Midlands) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ACKLAND ( Ref Victorian prisoners Aylesbury Gaol in the 19th Century) ACKLETON /AKLETON (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ACKMAN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) ACKROYD 1891 Yorkshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ACOME Buckinghamshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ADAIR (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1841) ADAMS ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) ADAMS ( 1726-1909 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ADCOCK 1851 Norfolk (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ADDIE ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) ADE 1891 Sussex (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ADGIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ADINALL, buried (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ADKINGS Ann 1702 24 (Burial Bedfordshire, (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ADLAM / ADLUM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ADLESTONE AECOP (1698- (Ref No DE670/9) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) AGAR 1777-1836 ( England AGATE 1891 Sussex (See Robert Dawson ARITF) AGLING AIKEMAN (Scotland ) ( England Census 1861) AIMES (see HAMES) AIRLY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) AISTROP George (see BRATLEY John) AITKEN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) AKERS / ACKERS ALBONE 1830s Norfolk, Suffolk (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ALBROW (1858 Suffolk) ALBURY ( Bap Weston Patrick Hampshire )(Ref (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) ALCORN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ALDER.1862 (Bap St John, Croydon, Surrey)(Ref (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) ALDERMAN 1790 (England) ALDERTON 1660 Yorkshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ALDRIDGE / ALDRICH / ALDREAD, ALDERIDGE 1725-1901, ALEXANDER 1700/1 (Bap East Challow, Berkshire)(Ref (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) ALFORD/ALLFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) 1729- ALLAN (S)(born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ALLARD , London (E) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ALLATT 1879 Northamptonshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ALLAWAY/ALLOWAY(Ref Journal of the Romany/ TravellerFHSociety ALLCOCK (England) ALLCORN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 1 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ALLEN/ALLAN/ELLEN 1696 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) - (See Robert Dawson ARITF for all locations they were found) ALLFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ALLIAS ( born Scotland (Census 1891) ALLISON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) 1861 ALLISON /ALLINSON 1795 Bawdeswell (Bawdeswell Norfolk 1861 Census) ALLUM, 1675 (Parish of Scalford Ref No DE2500/1 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ALLWORK (Eng) (1851 Census) ALSTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ALTROP Mary 1716 (Burial Oxfordshire, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AMAH ,1880 (Bap Christ Church, Epsom, Surrey) Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AMBROSE 1594-1817 (int) Essex, Middlesex. AMER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) AMES (see HAMES) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) AMOR 1842 (Bap St Lawrence, Reading Berkshire AMOS/AMMOS (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) AMPTON 1830 Whitchurch - (Burial Hampshire, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AMYS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ANCHOR 1785-1880 Bedfordshire, Sussex. (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ANCONA ( Eng, Census 1851) ANDERSON 1829 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ANDERSON ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) ANDRE /ANDREE (Ref “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) ANDREWS 1540 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ANGEL/ ANGLE 1740 (Burial Hampshire, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ANGUS, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ANNABLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ANNAIS (Gypsies Passing Through) ANNELL (see ARNELL) ANNES (Hindolveston, Aylsham, Nfk 1851 Census ANSCOMBE born Ireland ANSELL 1833 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ANSTEE (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ANSTILL/ ANTILL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) APPLEBY 1822 travelling (,Bap Croydon, Surrey ) APPLETON 1810 ( Yateley, - (Burial Hampshire, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ARBUCKLE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ARCHARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARCHAT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARCHER (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ARGENTA 1696 (Bap Charlwood, Surrey ). ARGUS 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ARIGHO family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARJAN Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARKELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARKISON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ARMITAGE 1891-1966 (Kent, Northumberland, Yorkshire ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ARMONS (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ARMOUR (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ARMSTRONG 1811 (born Cumberland-Longtown 1815)(1861 Census) ARMSWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARNEL/ ARNELL (Bapt) (see ANNELL)  Page 2 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ARNETT/ ARNOTT (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ARNFIELD 1827-1862 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ARNOLD 1851-1912, (Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire,Kent, Sussex) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ARRINGTON (see HARRINGTON) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ARROWSMITH 1866 (Bap Chertsey, Surrey) ARTER (1881 Census) ARTHUR (Census Surrey) ARTRIDE 1708 (Gypsies Passing Through) ARUNDEL 1794 ( Surrey) ASHBEE/ASHBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASHCROFT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASHFORTH 1788 (Yorkshire) ASHINGTON/ASLINGTON(Yorkshire)(See Robert Dawson ASHFULL (Gypsies Passing Through) ASHMORE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASHTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASKEW (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ASKIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASLETT (Gypsies Passing Through) ASPELL ( 1841 Census Scotland) ASPINALL (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) ASPLAND 1891 (Durham, Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ASPRAND (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ASPREY 1818 (Bap Micklehamp, Surrey). (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ASTLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ASTWOOD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) ATITIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) ATKINS 1728 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ATKINSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ATTEWELL (1881 UK Census Somerset) AUGER Nimrod(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) AULT (Old Bailey) AUSTEN 1822 (Gypsies Passing Through) AUSTIN (S) 1838-1902 (Gloucestershire/Kent, London) (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AVERHILL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) AVERY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) AVY 1780 (Burial Hampshire, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AXTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) AYELLON 1758 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AYLIFFE (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AYLING (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) AYRES/HARES/AYERS/AIRS1553(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family Histry Society) BAAN Feimsi, (N.S.W. Message Board) BACHELOR Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and T.F.H.S. BACK Alfred 1854 (Gypsies Passing Through) BACKLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BACKUS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BACON 1799-1961 (Gypsies Passing Through) BADCOCK 1895 (Gypsies Passing Through) BADGER 1994 (present) (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BADLEY 1834 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BAGGALEY/BAGLEY1796-1811 (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 3 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BAGLIN 1881 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BAGNALE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAIGENT 1839 Guildford, Surrey(Ref Gypsies Passing Through) BAILDON 1891 (Buckinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BAILEY Joseph (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAILLIE /BAILEY 1542-1891 Scot (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAILY (Chichester, Sussex Census 1901) BAILZON/ BAILZOW ( Ref page 23 “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, 1930) BAIN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) BAINBRIDGE (1901 census) BAINES 1611 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAIRD 1611 (Lothian) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BAKE/RAKE ((Surname uncertain; might be RAKE) (Ref 1851 Census) BAKER 1721 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BALCHIN 1760-1836 (Gypsies Passing Through) BALCOMB (Gypsies Passing Through) BALDING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BALDWIN 1775 (Gypsies Passing Through) BALEY 1808-Enderby Parish (Ref No-DE607/7) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BALL 1751 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BALLANTINE/ BALLANTYNE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1861) BALLARD (Gypsies Passing Through) BALLINGER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BALLOCK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BAMBER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAMBRIDGE,( Norfolk Ros Cottage 13 Bottle LANE, Boxgrove) BANDING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BANESTER (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BANGS (convict to W.A.) BANKLEY (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BANKS 1837-1881 (Scot) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BANNANTINE (Ayrshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BANNING (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BANNISTER 1576-1785 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BANTON (Eng) (England Census 1861) BAPTESED (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BAPTIST 1540-1579 (Lancashire,Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BARBARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARBER 1641 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARELS (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BARKER 1663 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARLEY Mary 1701(Gypsies Passing Through) BARLOW 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) BARLOWE/BARLOWS 1654 (Gypsies Passing Through) BARNARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARNES 1651-1910 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARNETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARNEY (Ireland) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARNSLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARNSNULL John (1722) (Gypsies Passing Through) BARRACLOUGH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARRAS 1965-2000 (Nottinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 4 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BARRELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARRETT/ BURRETT 1865 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARRINGER (Lancashire, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BARRINGTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARRON 1898-1914 (London, Suffolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BARROW (S) 1691-1970 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARRY (Blaenau Gwent, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BARTEL (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) BARTER (Ref 1841 Scotland Census) BARTHOLOMEW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARTLETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARTON 1619 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARWICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BARWISE /BARWISS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAS(S)TOW (Gypsies Passing Through) BASIL John 1874 (Gypsies Passing Through) BASK Edward (Gypsies Passing Through) BASON (Ireland) (Gypsies Passing Through) BASS 1837 (Gypsies Passing Through) BASSELL 1704 (Gypsies Passing Through) BASSET(T) 1779 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BASTIEN 1576-7 (Kent, London, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BASTIN 1765 (Gypsies Passing Through) BATCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BATCHELOR 1881 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BATEMAN 1597 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BATES 1721 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BATESON 1519-1811 (int) (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BATH 1814 (Gypsies Passing Through) BATHGATE (1891 Census Scotland) BATT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BATTEN 1721 (Northampton shire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BATTON 1677 (Gypsies Passing Through) BATTY 1765 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAUGHURST 1845(Gypsies Passing Through) BAUGUS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAULL 1620 (Gypsies Passing Through) BAVERS Mary (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAVERSTOCK 1872 (Gypsies Passing Through) BAVIN 1802 (Gypsies Passing Through) BAWDEN (Eng) (Census 1841) BAXBY ( 1891 Census Scotland) BAXTER (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) BAXTER 1760 (Scot Eng)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAY (Lancashire-Manchester, 1861 Census) BAYLDON 1874 (Census, Gypsies Passing Through) BAYLEY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BAYLIS/BAYLISS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BAZLETT (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) BEACH/BEICH (1861-1891 Census England) (Gloucestershire, London) BEADLE 1844 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEADLE(Old Bailey) BEAL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 5 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BEALE 1624 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BEAM/BEAMY 1881 (Devonshire, Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BEAN York (St Stephen Kingston on Hull 1871 BEANEY/ BEENEY 1673 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BEARD 1758(GypsiesPassingThrough) BEARDSWORTH (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) BEARN 1960 (Devonshire) BEATTY (Ireland 1791) BEAUMONT 1753 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BEAZLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BECKER 1712(Gypsies Passing Through) BECKETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BECKLEY Charles (Bedford Prison) BECKWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BEDDESFORD 1930s (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BEDDOES 1930s (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BEDFORD 1741 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEECH 1762 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BEEZLEY 1814 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEGLEY (see LEGLEY) BEICH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BEIGE 1540 (Scotland) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) BELCHER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BELDAM/BELDON/BELDORN 1912-1923 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BELDANE 1865 (Bap, Gypsies Passing Through) BELDING 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BELFORD 1804 (Gypsies Passing Through) BELFOUND ( Listed as a Tinker at The Old BAILEY (Ref Old BAILEY proceedings) BELL 1567-1889 (Derbyshire, Middlesex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BELLDON Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BELLIS 1914 (Gypsies Passing Through) BELLWOOD 1719 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BELTAN 1849 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENCHETT 1874 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENDELL (Hampshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BENDER 1843 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENEY Emily 1854 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENFELL 1863 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENHAM 1868 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BENN 1846 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BENNETT 1687 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BENNINGS 1905 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENNISON 1767 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BENSON Edward 1736 (Gypsies Passing Through) BENT 1891 (Kent, Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BENTL(E)Y 1816 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BENTON 1891 (Kent) BERGO 1540 (Scotland .Cp Virgo) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BERK ( Gypsy Camp, BERRIMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BERRY Family 1754 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BERRYMAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851)  Page 6 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BERTON /BURTON (Birmingham-Warickshire) (Census Place Aston (Deritend)_ BERTRAM (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BERWICK Emily 1822 (Gypsy Passing Through) BERY 1742 (Gypsies Passing Through) BESALY John 1867 (Gypsies Passing Through) BESFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BESSNEE 1791 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEST 1746 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BESWICK (London) BESWICKAN (Essex) BETHEL Jane 1733 BETTERLEY (Nottinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BETTS 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEVER 1585 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEWITH 1886 (Gypsies Passing Through) BEXELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIBBY/BIBBEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIBFORD Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BICKLAND Mary “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) BICKNELL 1820 (Gypsies Passing Through) BIDDALL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIDDER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIDDLE 1701 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIDDLE/BIDDELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIDWELL 1818 (Gypsies Passing Through) BIERLEY/BIRLEY 1686 (Bedfodshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BIGGIN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BIGGIN(S) (Place: South Shields -Co. Durham) (Scotland Census 1861) BIGGS 1820 (Gypsies Passing Through) BIGNALL Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BILBY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BILLINGHURST 1807 (Hampshire, Gypsies Passing Through) BILLINGS 1851, Norwich, Nofolk 1851 Census ) BILSBY/BILSBURY 1823 (Gypsies Passing Through) BILSHAW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BILSTON/BILLSTON Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BILTON (Surrey, Scotland) BINFIELD 1880 (Gypsies Passing Through) BING 1750 (Gypsies Passing Through) BINNS 1848 (Gypsies Passing Through) BINSTED, Hampshire) (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) BIRCH /BURCH,BYRCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIRD 1833 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BIRKS (see BURK) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BIRMINGHAM 1960 (Ireland, Eng, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BIRSH (1841), Census BISHLEY William 1810 (Gypsies Passing Through) BISHOP 1690 (Gypsies Passing Through) BISSELL 1777 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BISSET (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) BLACK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851)  Page 7 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BLACK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLACKHAM/ / 1850 / BLACKHAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLACKISH? (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLACKMAN 1873 (Gypsies Passing Through) BLACKWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLADES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLAKE 1881 ( Ireland, England) (Census) BLAKEMAN (see BLACKHAM & BLACKMAN) BLAKEY 1784 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLANCH 1898 (Gypsies Passing Through) BLANCHARD 1830 (Gypsies Passing Through) BLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLEARDALL 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLENCOC (Gypsies Passing Through) BLEWER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLEWIT (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BLEWITT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLEWITT / BLUET (see BLEWIT) BLEZZARD /BLIZZARD ? (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLIGHT (England Census 1861) BLISS 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLITHE (see BLYTH) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLOOD 1849 -1876 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLOOMFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BLOW 1843 (Gypsies Passing Through) BLOWER 1894 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLUETT/BLEWETT 1696-1860 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BLUNDELL William 1880 BLYTH (faa) BLYTH(E)/BLITHE 1589 (Scot)(Gypsies Passing Through) BO(O)RMAN (Alkham Kent 1851 (Census transcribed by Dorothy Holden) BOA/BOR BOAG (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) BOAZ (Gypsy) (Norfolk Bap, Poland) BOBINGDON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOCATO (born Foreign Parts) ( Scotland Census 1841) BOCKMASTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BODDICOMBE 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BODY (Milton Gravesend) BOILING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOLAN 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOLDERSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BOLES 1785 Headcorn, Kent (Gypsies Passing Through) BOLLING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOLT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOLTON/BOULTON(EN) 1873(Gypsies Passing Through) BOND (S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BONE 1836 (Gyspies Passing Through) BONNETT 1848-1935 Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BONSIDE 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 8 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BONSUR (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BONWICK 1876 (see BOWDLY John) BOODWIN 1643 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOOKER 1684 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOOLER 1881(Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOOR 1820 (Northampton) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOORT (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BOOTH 1691 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BORGHURST 1836 (Gyspies Passing Through) BORTHWICK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BOSKETT 1871 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOSMARK 1844 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOSS Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) (see BOSWELL) )(Eng,Wales) BOSTINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOSTOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOSUP (Gypsies Passing Through) BOSVILLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOSWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) )(Eng,Wales) BOSWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOT(T)EN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOTHWELL 1891 (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOTLING 1863 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOTTING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOTTON 1809 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOTTS, 1763-Oakham Parish (Ref No-DE2694/3) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BOULTER 1848 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOULTON (see BOLTON) (Eng) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOUNDRETT (Census, Gypsies Passing Through) BOUNFELLOW 1617 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOUQUET 1875 (Census, Gypsies Passing Through) BOURNE (Gypsies Passing Through BOUTT Emily abt 1834 St Anns, London, 1851 Census), BOUTTLE (Gypsies Passing Through BOWARS 1824 (Gypsies Passing Through BOWDEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOWDLY 1876 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOWELS 1911 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWEN (England & Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOWER(S) 1595 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWES 1770-Mkt Harborough Parish (Ref No -DE1587/2 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BOWIE/BOWEY (Scot-Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOWKER (Ref PAGE 182; “Gypsies in Britain” Ath Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, pub late 1930s) BOWLER 1724 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWLING 1758 (Oxfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWLS/BOWELS Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOWMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOWMILL 1881 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWNIA (See BUNYAN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BOWYER 1830 (Gypsies Passing Through) BOXALL George 1841 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 9 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BOYCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOYD (Scot,Ire,Eng)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOYDEN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BOYLE (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) BOYLIN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BOYLING 1764 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BOYS 1905 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRABY 1776 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRACE (Perry McIntyre NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875) BRACKEY ( born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1871) BRADBURY, 1772- (Ref No DE1587/2) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BRADDOCK/BRADDICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRADFIELD 1901 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRADFORD 1725 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRADLEY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BRADLEY 1790 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BRADSHAW 1771-1881 (Huntingdonshire,Ireland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRADWICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAGAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BRAHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAIN 1708 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRAITHWAITE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAMONT,.1711-Tinwell Parish (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BRAMWELL 1871(Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRANDON(Gypsies Passing Through) BRANNIGAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BRASSALL 1876 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRATLAND ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) BRATLEY (Traveller Gipsy Rotherham Yks (Census) BRATTON 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRAWN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAZEL (Gypsies Passing Through) BRAZENT 1771 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRAZIER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRAZIL(L) 1825 (Gypsies Passing Through) BREATLEY (See Brierley) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BREATON 1837 (Gypsies Passing Through) BREDE 1733 (Gypsies Passing Through) BREED(S) (Maidstone, - ? Westbourne) (Gypsies Passing Through) BREES 1800 (Gypsies Passing Through) BREEZE (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRETON 1809 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BREWER (Eng) 1653- ( 1861 England Census (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S) BREWERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BREWERTON 1594 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BREWIN 1825 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRIAN 1686 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRICKLAND 1875 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRICKLEY (wife born Ireland) (England) (Gypsies Passing Through) BRICKNELL (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 10 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BRIDALS 1963 (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRIDGE(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRIDGEMAN/BRIDGMAN 1747 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BRIDGEN 1891 (Essex, Norfolk)) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRIDGER (Gypsies Passing Through) BRIDGEWATER (Gypsies Passing Through) BRIEN/BRYAN (S) 1743-1906 (int) (GLS, IRE, WAR,YKS) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRIERLEY 1881-1891 (LAN,YKS) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRIERSHILL (Gypsies Passing Through) BRIGGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRIGHTON (Gypsies Passing Through) BRIMSDEN / BRIMSDON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRINDLEON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRINES 1811 (NBD) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRINKLEY Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRISCHAH 1678 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRISTOLL 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRISTOW (England Census 1841) BRISTOW(E) (Gypsies Passing Through) BRITTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROADHURST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROADLY (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) BROADWAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROAKES Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROCKLAND (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROCKLEHURST (Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROCKLESS (Buckinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROCKLEY (born Novascatele, Halifax ( Scotland Census 1851) BROCKSOP 1751 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRODER (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) BROGDEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROKLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROKLEBYE (1592) (Gypsies Passing Through) BROMAGE (Worcestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROMLEY (Eng) (Gypsies Passing Through) BRONGER Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROOK(S) Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROOKER 1706 (Gypsies Passing Through) BROOKSBEY 1650 (Gypsies Passing Through) BROOMHEAD 1881 (Cheshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROTHERTON 1851 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROUGH 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROUGHTON 1574 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROUNCKER (Gypsies Passing Through) BROWMANE 1574 (Yorkshire, Cp Brownell) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROWN 1541- present (Scot,Yorkshire, Cp Brownell,) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BROWNE, Widow—buried-15 .9. 1673- Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BROWNELL/BROWNHILL 1661-1726 (int) (Y/shire,Wales Compare Browmaine (See Robert Dawson BROWNETT(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROWNING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BROXOP, William 1768- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BRUCE, 1616-1722/3 (Scot)-Blaby Parish (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council)  Page 11 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BRUGMAN 1655 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BRUNSDEN Frederick 1881 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) BRUTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRYAN Thomas 1773 (Gypsies Passing Through) BRYANT 1771 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BRYDON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BRYEN (Donald Locke) BRYER, (Donald Locke) BUCHANAN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BUCK Family 1656 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKENHAM 1851 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITFfor locations) BUCKFIELD (Gypsies Passing Through) BUCKLAND 1651 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKLEY1563 (Ire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKLOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUCKRIDGE (Gypsies Passing Through) BUCKTON 1657-1669 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUD(D) Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUDDENDON .1771 (1841Census http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Misc.html BUDDIN (Gypsies Passing Through) BUGGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BULFIT (Gypsies Passing Through) BULL Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BULLANTINE 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BULLEN/BULLIN 1746 (Gypsies Passing Through) BULLEY 1698(Gypsies Passing Through) BULLOCK 1648 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUNCE (Eng) (Ref PAGE 102; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) BUNCH (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BUNCHET 1811 (Gypsies Passing Through) BUNDY(Gypsies Passing Through) BUNGEY (Gypsies Passing Through) BUNN (Gypsies Passing Through) BUNTS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUNYAN 1586-1640 (Cornwall) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURBERRY 1891 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURCHALL (Gypsies Passing Through) BURCHANT (Gypsies Passing Through) BURCHETT 1749 (Gypsies Passing Through) BURDEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURDETT, 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through) BURDIS (Gypsies Passing Through) BURDOCK 1843 (Gypsies Passing Through) BURGESS Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURK/BURKE/BIRKS 1742 (Gypsies Passing Through, (Wales 1871, Ireland, Scot) BURKLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURN(S), 1697- 1812-Blaby Parish (Ref No BTs-MF282) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BURNE (Gypsies Passing Through) BURNET 1827-1891 (int) (Derbyshire, Norfolk, SCO) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURNETT 1831 (Gypsies Passing Through) BURNHAM, 1685 (Gypsies Passing Through) BURNS (Scot)Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURNSDON(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 12 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 BURNSELL 1815 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURNSIDE Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURRAGE (Gypsies Passing Through) BURRELL 1706 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURRETT Henry (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BURROW(S)/BURROUGHS 1735-1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURSTOW (Gypsies Passing Through) BURT (Gypsies Passing Through) BURTENSHAW (Gypsies Passing Through) BURTON 1631- present,(Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BURY (Gypsies Passing Through) BUSH (Gypsies Passing Through) BUSHBY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BUSHNELL (Census Gypsies Passing Through) BUSHOP, (Gypsies Passing Through) BUSTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUTCHER (@ for BUCKLAND) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUTERY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUTLER Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUTLIN 1751-1800 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUTT 1891 (Norfolk. London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUTTERFIELD 1836 (Gypsies Passing Through) BUTTERIDGE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BUTTERSMITH 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUTTERWORTH (Scot) ( Census 1861) BUTTERY (Bedfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BUTTY 1873 (Ireland) BUXALL (Gypsies Passing Through) BUXTON 1711 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) BYDON 1813 (Gypsies Passing Through) BYERS (Scot) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BYLES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) BYNES (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) BYRATT, 1685-Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) BIRCH/BYRCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CABBAGE (Gypsies Passing Through) CACKELL Elizabeth 1714(Gypsies Passing Through) CADMAN 1875-1933 (Derbyshire, Monmouthshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAFFIN (Ref Perry McIntyre NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875) CAIN 1870-1891 (Gloucestershire, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAIRD 1610-1818 (INT) (Derbyshire, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAIRNS/KAIRNS 1891 (Durham) CALDER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CALDRAFT 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) CALDWELL (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CALIGAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CALLADINE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CALLAGHAN (Cumberlandshire, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CALNON (Ireland) (Census) CALOT 1570 (Ref page 29; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) CALVER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CALVERLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CAM John 1774 4 Dec John & Hannah (A Traveller) (Baptisms Broughton Oxfordshire CAMBEY 1725 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 13 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CAMBLE/CAMPBELL (Place: South Shields -Co. Durham) (Scotland Census 1861) CAMEL 1722 (Gypsies Passing Through) CAMERON(Scottish Gypsies) ( ref Am Baile Scottish site) (England) CAMFIELD/CANFIELD (Essex, Hampshire, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAMP 1930-1939 (Carmthenshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAMPBELL 1624-1891 (int) (Scot)(See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAMPION 1705 (Gypsies Passing Through) CANE 1616 (Gypsies Passing Through) CANFIELD (see CAMFIELD) CANHAM (no info) CANNING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CANNON 1862 (Gypsies Passing Through) CANOPY 1821 (Ref 1841 (Census http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Misc.html CAPELL Ann 1684 (Gypsies Passing Through) CAPON 1824 (Gypsies Passing Through) CAREW 1744 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CAREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARLEY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CARLIN Vashti nee Boswell; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) CARLOMAN (Ref PAGE107; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) CARLTON/CARTON, 1624 (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson) CARMAN 1701, - (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CARN 1881 (Cornwall) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CARNET 1849 (Gypsies Passing Through) CARPENDER Thomas 1830 (Gypsies Passing Through) CARPENTER (Penwith -Cornwall) (Scotland 1841 Census)(England) CARR /KERR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARRICK 1635 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CARRIGAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CARRINGTON (Ref Donald Locke) CARRIS(S) 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CARRAL (Scotland Census 1891) CARROLL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARROT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARSOM 1792 (Gypsies Passing Through) CARTER 1871 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARTNAY, Thomas 1803 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CARTOR 1836 (Gypsies Passing Through) CARTRIDGE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CARTWRIGHT 1881 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CARTY/?CARLY Redruth-Cornwall ( Scottish 1851 Census) CARY 1822 (Gypsies Passing Through) CASBOTT Lucretia (See GREY Charles) CASE 1722/3 (Gypsies Passing Through) CASEY 1851-1881 (Ireland, Lancashire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CASH 1833-present-(Derbyshire, Ireland, Nottinghamshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CASHMORE (Leicestershire, Warrickshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CASOM 1584 (Gypsies Passing Through) CASSIDY ( born Scotland) (Census 1891) CASSILL (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CASTELLO (Wales 18881 Census) CASTER (Gypsies Passing Through) CASTLE 1806 (Gypsies Passing Through) CASTRO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CASWELL 1681(Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 14 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CATER 1635-1891 (int) (Norfolk, Sussex, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CATLIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CATTERMOLE 1881 (Suffolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CATTO (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CAVALE ( Channel Island 1881 Census) CAVANDER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CAVANNAH 1840 (Gypsies Passing Through) CAVENA 1881(Cardinganshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CAVENDISH 1767 (Gypsies Passing Through) CAWLEY 1968-1970 (Yorkshire) CAYTAN (Gypsies Passing Through) CETAWAYO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHACE 1744 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHADWICK 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHAFFEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHALKLEY 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHALMERS (Leith South -Midlothian (Scotland 1841 Census)(Ireland) CHAMBERLAIN 1909 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHAMBERS, Ref-(Census-1851)- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CHAMPION 1619 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHANDERS (Gypsies Passing Through) CHANDLER 1797 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHANTLES (Gypsies Passing Through) CHAPELIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHAPLIN 1607-1774 (int) (Suffolk, Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHAPMAN1865 (Scotland 1841 Census, England (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family) CHAPPELL (Berkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHAPPLE Mary 1848 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHARINGOLD (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHARLES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHARLESWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHARLOTTE ( see SHARLOTT) (1858) 1871 Census) CHARLTON Francis 1817 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHARLWOOD 1816 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHASELY 1641 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHATER 1881(Buckinghamshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHATFIELD 1786 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHEADLE (CHEATLE), 1891-Lotus (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CHEALS (Gypsies Passing Through) CHEATLE, 1881- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CHEESEMAN 1899-1901 (Norfolk, Sussex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHEETHAM born Lancashire-Manchester Census Place: St George -Lancashire 1861 Census CHENELER 1891 (London) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHENNIL Henry 1692 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHERRY (Gypsies Passing Through) CHICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHILCOTT 1725 (in Egland, Aus) (Gypsies Passing Through) CHILD (S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHILTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHIPPERFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHIPPIN 1657 (Gypsies Passing Through) CHIRN 1911 (Hampshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHISHOLM : Snizort -Inverness-shire (1841 Census) CHISHOLM (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) CHITTENDEN Catherine (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 15 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CHITTY 1696 (England, Aust) (Gypsies Passing Through) CHIVERS -CHILVERS1891 (Middlesex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHRISTIE Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHRISTMAS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CHURCHER (Hampshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CHUREN Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLAP/CLAPP 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) CLAPHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLARE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLARGO (Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLARIDGE (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLARINGBOLD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLARK ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) CLARK (E) 1599-(Gypsies Passing Through) CLARKSON (1824 Berkshire, 1861 Sussex ,1891 Yorkshire,) (Census 1861) CLARRING 1629 (Gypsies Passing Through) CLATER 1763 (Gypsies Passing Through) CLATON, 1709- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CLAY 1706 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLAYDON (England, Aust (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLAYTON 1775 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CLEAR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLEARLIE 1779 (Gypsies Passing Through) CLEARLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLEGG 1838 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLEMENCE 1655 (Gypsies Passing Through) CLEMENT (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) CLEMENT(S) George 1725 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CLEMSON, 1637 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CLEVELY (Gypsies Passing Through) CLEVEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLIFFORD 1711 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLIFTON 1662 (Surrey, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLINTON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) CLOSS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLUBB (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CLUES (Gypsies Passing Through) CLUETT (Wolverhampton -Staffordshire 1861 Census) CLUNE (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CLYDE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) COALE 1763 (Gypsies Passing Through) COATE(S) Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COATS (Scot) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COBBY (Gypsies Passing Through) COBLEY, -buried-7 .12. 1768-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) COBMAN(Gypsies Passing Through) COCK 1851(Gypsies Passing Through) COCKAM (Gypsies Passing Through) COCKBURN ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) COCKETT (Gypsies Passing Through) COCKS 1675 (Gypsies Passing Through) COCORAN (Gypsies Passing Through) CODMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) CODONA (Scot) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COFFEE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COIL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 16 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 COKER (Gypsies Passing Through) COLBURN 1779 (Gypsies Passing Through) COLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLEMAN 1827 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLEY 1826 (Gypsies Passing Through) COLGATE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLIER (Gypsies Passing Through) COLLINEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLINGS (Gypsies Passing Through) COLLINGWOOD 1816 (Gypsies Passing Through) COLLINS /COLINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLINSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLINWOOD (Ref No DE3855/1) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) COLLISON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COLLYER (Gypsies Passing Through) COLMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COMBER 1817 (Gypsies Passing Through) COMBS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COMFORD (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COMFORT (Gypsies Passing Through) COMMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) COMPADON.1816 (Ref 1841 (Census http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Misc.html CONELEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONINGS 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) CONLIN (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1891) CONN 1823 Ireland (Census Gypsies Passing Through) CONNELL-present (Ireland, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CONNELLY ( born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1871) CONNER ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) CONNER 1807 (Gypsies Passing Through) CONNERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONNOR ( Birth Place Not Stated) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) CONNOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONOLLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONSTABLE (Gypsies Passing Through) CONSTANCE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONSTANT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CONWAY 1826 (Gypsies Passing Through) CONY (Scotland,England)(Census http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Misc.html COOD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COOK (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) COOK (E) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COOMBE/ COOMBES Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COONEY, Patrick--(Census-1901-Hackney, London (Reg No-RG13/221) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County COOPER 1625 )(Eng,Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family H/S COOPER /COUPER ( Birth Place England) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) COOPLING (Gypsies Passing Through) COOTE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COPELAND 1881 (Lancashire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) COPPARD 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COPPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COPPEX 1736 (Gypsies Passing Through) CORBETT 1571 (Gypsies Passing Through) CORCKER (Ref No DE2694/3) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council)  Page 17 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CORDWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CORDY 1821 Shipdham ( 1881 Blk Moor Row Shipdham Nfk) CORE 1815 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COREY (Dudley Wor-Staffordshire 1861 Census) CORK 1804 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORKILL (Isle of Man) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CORNER (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORNFIELD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORNFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CORNISH 1746 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORNWALLIS 1737 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORNWELL.CORNWALL 1765- (1861 England Census) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CORRAGAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CORRIE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CORRIGAN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CORSEY 1891 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) CORSS 1695 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COSBY 1881 (Bedfordshire ) See Robert Dawson ARITF) COSIER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COSLIN 1881 (Devon) See Robert Dawson ARITF ) COSTELLO ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) COSTER 1945-1975 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) COSTIN (Bedford Prison Records) COTTLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COTTON 1704 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COUCH (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COUCHMAN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COULD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COULSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COULSTON 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COULTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COULTMAN 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COURTNEY( Place St.Austell Cornwall (1841 Census) (Scot 1851 Census) COURTS ( born Eng) (Census 1891) COURTWALL (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COUSIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COUSINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COVELL 1813(Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COVENTRY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) COVER 1826 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) COWDERY (Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COWDIDDLE 1610 (Derbyshire, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COWET (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) COWP 1579 (Durham, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) COWPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) COX (born Ireland/ Scot) ( Scotland Census 1851) COX 1803-1891 (Birmingham-Warrickshire) (Census Place Aston Deritend (1841 Census) COY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) COYNE 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRABTREE 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRADDOCK (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRAFT(S) 1688- 1618 (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAGG 1802 (Essex ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAMP Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CRANE 1843-1888 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 18 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CRANER 1682 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRAPP 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAVEN (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAWFORD (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CRAWFORD 1717 (Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAWLEY (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRAYFORD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRECRAFT, (Eng) (England Census 1861) CRESSEY 1807 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CREW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CREWDON 1881 (Anglesy) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRICHTON ( born Scot) (Census 1891) CRIGHTON (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRILLY/CRELLY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CRIPPS 1820 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRIPPS(England Census 1841) CRITCHLEY 1881 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRITTENDEN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROALL(Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) CROCK 1881 (Devon) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CROCKER 1751 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CROCKETT 1722 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROFT (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CROISIER 1824 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROKER 1881-1901 (Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson) CROLE 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CROLL ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) CROMIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CROMPTON (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROMWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CRONE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CRONE (born Cumberland-Penrith .1861 Census Place: Darlington -Co. Durham) CRONIN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRONK 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CROOK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CROSBITER 1699-1891(int)(Cumberland,Essex, Northamptonshire,Oxford (Dawson) CROSBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CROSLEY 1609-1649 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CROSON,(CROXAN) 1673- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CROSS(E) 1743 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROSWEL(L),. 1770- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CROTTY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) CROUCHER CROW(E) (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CROWLEY (England,Ireland) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CROWN 1871 Census), (19 Dawsons Ct Lincoln 1871 Census) CROXFORD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRUMLEY 1671 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CRUSELL 1768 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRUTCHER 1841 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CRUTCHER/CROUCHER/KIRCHER (Ref Donald Locke) CULITT CULLEY 1826 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CULLEY John 1826  Page 19 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 CULLINE 1891(Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CULLINGS (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CULVER (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CULVERWELL 1695 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUMBERS (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUMMINGS (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUMMINS 1831 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUNDELL / CUNDY 1788-1851(int) (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CUNNINGHAM (Eng) 1825 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CUNNINGTON 1879 Yorkshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CURDER (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CURL 1908 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CURLIT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CURRIE ( born Scot) (Census 1891) CURRY, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) CURTIS 1634 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CURTNESS 1671 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUSHWAY (Essex, London, Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) CUTHBERT Joyce(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) CUTLER 1715 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) CUTTS 1828-present (int) (Derbyshire,Nottinghamshire, Stafford, Worcest (See Robert Dawson DABFOOT 1899 DaBOURNE DACEY (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DAFFRON (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DAILEY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DAILEY/DALY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DALE 1675 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DALES (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DALEY DALSON/DALTON 1891 (Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DALTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DALY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DAMMER 1756 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DAMSTER/DAMESTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DANCE ( Berkshire, Portsea, USA, ) DANE 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DANGERFIELD (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DANIELS 1744 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DANILOW 1813 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DANN (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DANNER 1908 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DANNILS 1726 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DANTON 1881 (Kent) DARKER (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DARKINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DARKUS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DARLING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DARNBOROUGH 1791 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DARNEL 1778 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DARSON 1689 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DART 1891 (Herefordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DARTFORD 1777 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DAUGHERTY (Ref Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 20 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 DAVENPORT 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DAVEY (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DAVI(E)S Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAVIDGE Charles 1791 DAVID (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAVIDSON/DAVISON (Lincolnshire, Scotland)(Census) DAVIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DAVIE /DAVY (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DAVIES, 1571 (Wales) 1851 Census Wales) ( (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DAVIS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAWES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAWSON (Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAY 1699-(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DAYLER (1861 Census DE MARNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEAAN (Gypsies Passing Through) DEACH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEACON (Gypsies Passing Through) DEADMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEAGO 1577 (Buckinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DEAKINS/ DEAKINGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEALL 1804 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEAN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DEAN (E) 1731 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEANES 1794 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEANHALL 1789 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEAR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEARLE (Gypsies Passing Through) DEARY ( Scotland Census 1871) DEATH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEBUTY 1706 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEDMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEE 1613 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEIGHTON 1775 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEKIN (S) 1793 (Gypsies Passing Through) DELANEY 1990-PRESENT (Cheshire, Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DELLAWAY (@ STRUDWICK) (Gypsies Passing Through) DEMPSEY (Gypsies Passing Through) DEMPSTER (Census 1891) DENBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENCH 1767(Gypsies Passing Through) DENERD (Hampshire,Kent,London, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DENISON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENMAN Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENNARD 1874 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENNETT 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DENNEY born Ireland (66 Spa Sreet, Brighton) DENNIS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENNISON(Gypsies Passing Through) DENNY (Gypsies Passing Through) DENT (Gypsies Passing Through) DENTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DENVONBRUGE (1881 Census) DENYARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 21 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 DENYER/DENNARD1923 (Surrey, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DERBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DERRICK 1873 (Somerset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DETON (Gypsies Passing Through) DETRAMOLD (Gypsies Passing Through) DEVALL/DEVEL Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEVANCOURT (Gypsies Passing Through) DEVERALL/DEVALL 1960 (Kent, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DEVINE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEVITT Daniel(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEVLIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DEVONSHIRE (Gypsies Passing Through) DEW 1708 (Gypsies Passing Through) DEWAR (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DEXTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIAPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIBLEY 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DICK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DICKENS 1761 (Gypsies Passing Through) DICKER (Gypsies Passing Through) DICKERSON (Gypsies Passing Through) DICKINSON 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DICKMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) DICKSEE/ DICKSEY (Gypsies Passing Through) DICKSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DIGGINS 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DIGHTON/DEIGHTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIGNAN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1841) DILKES 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DILL (Gypsies Passing Through & Scotland Census 1841)) DIMBERLINE 1774-1843 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DINSMORE 1840 (North Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DINSON 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DIPROSE (Gypsies Passing Through) DISEE John 1708 (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DISS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DISTLSON (see DAYLER DISTORNEL 1749 (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DITON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIVAL Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIVINE (see DEVINE) (Gypsies Passing Through) DIX 1806 (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DIXES (Gypsies Passing Through) DIXEY 1780 (Gypsies Passing Through) DIXIE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DIXIS (Gypsies Passing Through) DIXON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOBBINS,) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DOBSON 1639 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOBY/TOBY (Hampshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DOCARIA 1891 (Norfolk ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DOCHERTY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) DOCHERTY/DOCERTY 1840-1981 (Northern Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DODD (Wolverhampton -Staffordshire 1861 Census)  Page 22 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 DODD 1757 (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DOE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOE(England Census 1841) DOGHERTY ( Birth Place Ireland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) DOGHERTY (DOGHERBY) born Ireland, (Census Lanark -Lanarkshire Enumeration District: DOHERTY (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) DOHERTY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOIKERDAY, 1732-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DOLAN/DOLLENYE/DOWLAN 1598-1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DOLBY/DALBY 1881 (Norfolk ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DOLSON Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DON ( Birth Place Not Stated) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) DONALDSON 1996 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DONEA 1540 (Scotland) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published 1930s) DONNELLY 1769-1891 (int) (Lancashire, Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DONOGHUE ( Gypsies Passing Through) DONOHUE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DONOVAN (Wales, Kent (Gypsies Passing Through) DOOLEY 1891-present (Sussex, Ireland) (Gypsies Passing Through) DOOREY 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) DOORMAN (Census transcribed by Dorothy Holden) DORAH ( Scotland Census 1871) DORAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DORE 1799-1822 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DORER(Gypsies Passing Through) DOREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DORMER (Census Little Marlow Caravan 3, Little Marlow, Bucks RG11 1465 120 42 ) DORRELL 1872 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DOT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOUDING 1707 (Gypsies Passing Through) DOUGH Dorcas (Gypsies Passing Through) DOUGHERTY ( Scotland Census 1871) DOUGHTY 1826 ) ( Listed at Boscawen Street, Truro, Cornwall, 1841(Ref 1841 (Census ) DOUGLAS/ DOUGLASS/ DAGLASS c1590 (Scot, Eng)(Gypsies Passing Through) DOULTON 1762 (Gypsies Passing Through) DOUTCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOW (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DOW (Gypsies Passing Through) DOWARD (Gypsies Passing Through) DOWEN 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) DOWLAND 1618 (Oxfordshire Message Board) DOWNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOWNEY (Pauper General Hawker Brighton, Sussex the Workhouse Census) DOWNIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DOWNING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DOWNINGE, widow—travelling- Census (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DOWNS 1721 (Ref (Baptims) (Gypsies Passing Through) DOYLE 1881 –present (Ireland, Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRAKE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DRAKELEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DRAPER “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) DRAWBRIDGE 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRAY 1780 (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) DREDGE (Baptised St Lawrence, Reading Berkshire (Ref (Baptims) Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 23 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 DREW 1722 (Monmouthshire, Staffordshire) (Ref (Baptims) Gypsies Passing Through) DREWRY (Ref (Baptims) Gypsies Passing Through) DRING, Samuel (Mkt Harborough Parish-(Ref No DE1587/1) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DRINGO 1599 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRINKWATER (North Street Caistor, Lin RG11 3279 10 13 ) Census) DRISCOLL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DRIVER 1851 Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRUETT 1625-1825 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRUMMOND 1960 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRYDEN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DRYER 1881 (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DRYSDAL (E) (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) Du PLESSIS 1954 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUCK 1891-present (Durham, London, Nottinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUCKETT Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DUDDY (London, Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUDGSON 1709 (Yorkshire ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUDLEY 1770 (Gypsies Passing Through) DUFF 1757-present (Scot) (Eng)(See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUFFAN 1830 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUFFEY Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DUFFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DUFFY “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) DUFFY (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891)- DUGGAN (Carlow, Ireland) (Census) DUGGEON 1703(Gypsies Passing Through) DUKE(S) (Gypsies Passing Through DUMBRILL (Gypsies Passing Through) DUNBAR 1881 (Denbighshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUNBRECK (born British Lan, Gibraltar) ( Scotland Census 1851) DUNCAN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DUNCAN 1664-1716(England,Scot,Wales (Gypsies Passing Through DUNCOMB (Eng) (1841 Census) DUNDAS 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUNFIELD1655-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DUNFORD (Gypsies Passing Through) DUNGER (Norfolk) 1851 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DUNHAM, 1722 (Gypsies Passing Through) DUNK (Gypsies Passing Through) DUNLOP (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DUNLOP (Ire) (Gypsies Passing Through) DUNN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DUNN 1739 ( Ireland, WKS, Yorkshire DUNTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DUPPS (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DURCAN (England) ( England Census 1851) DURLY (Gypsies Passing Through) DURRANT (France, Hungary, Sussex) DURRIN (Gypsies Passing Through) DURY, 1729 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) DUSBEN 1771 (Kent) 1841 (Census http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Misc.html DUTCHFIELD, Census-1901-Hackney, London) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council)  Page 24 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 DUVAL/DEVALL/DIVAL/DEVEL 1891 (Kent, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DY A BAPTISTA Barbara “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, DYE John 1779 (Gypsies Passing Through) DYER (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) DYER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) DYMMOCK 1850 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DYNES/DINES 1825 (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DYSON (Derbyshire, Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) DYTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EADES 1829 Surrey (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) EADY (Gypsies Passing Through) EAGLE (Gypsies Passing Through) EAGLETON 1891 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EALER 1556 (Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EAMES 1706 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EARL (Place: Hillington -Norfolk Census 1861) EARLY 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EASERTON, 1759- ( Census Ref No-DE1013/2) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) EASINGWOOD (Gypsies Passing Through) EAST, Ann -(Census-1871 -(Ref No RG10/3296) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) EASTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EASTMAN 1743 (Gypsies Passing Through) EASTMEAD (Gypsies Passing Through) EASTWOOD 1633 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EATON (Gypsies Passing Through) EAVES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ECCLES 1676-1740 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) EDE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) EDES 1735 (Gypsies Passing Through) EDGERTON 1690 (Gypsies Passing Through) EDLEY 1873 (Jersey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EDMANDS (1712) (Gypsies Passing Through) EDMOND(S) 188-1891 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EDMUNDS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EDWARDS 1725 (Gypsies Passing Through) EFEMEY 1891 (Hampshire, Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EGAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EGERTON (Monmouth) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) EGGENS (see HIGGINS) (Gypsies Passing Through) EGGLETON (Gypsies Passing Through) EGLIN 1673 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ELATT/ELLET 1758 (Gypsies Passing Through) ELCOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELDBOROUGH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELDRIDGE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELEY 1788-1898 Hampshire (Gypsies Passing Through) ELFES 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ELKERTON Charles (Aylesbury) ELLEN (see ALLEN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ELLIOT/ELLIOTT (Scot etc)“Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald ELLIOTT (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) ELLIS (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ELLIS 1851 (Derbyshire, Kent, Lancastershire, Sussex, Yorkshire  Page 25 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ELMLY 1738 (Gypsies Passing Through) ELPHICK Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELPHINSTONE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ELSLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELSON 1826 (Gypsies Passing Through) ELSTON 1823 (Gypsies Passing Through) ELVIN Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ELVYN 1615 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) EMERY (Gypsies Passing Through) EMMETT (Kent, Surrey, Sussex) (Gypsies Passing Through) EMWOOD (Gypsies Passing Through) ENAS (Gypsies Passing Through) ENGLAND (Gypsies Passing Through) ENGLISH (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) ENSWORTH 1697 (Gypsies Passing Through) ENTWISTE, 1566- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) EPPS (Gypsies Passing Through) EPTON (Gypsies Passing Through) ERSKINE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) ESPIGATT (Basque Country France, UK) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ESSEX (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ETHERIDGE (Gypsies Passing Through) EUSTACE (Gypsies Passing Through) EVA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EVANS 1775 (Eng, Wales) (Gypsies Passing Through) EVENS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EVERETT/ EVERITT 1779 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EVERTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EVES (Gypsies Passing Through) EVINES 1686 (Gypsies Passing Through) EVINS 1657 (Gypsies Passing Through) EVISS 1756 (Gypsies Passing Through) EWBANK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EWSE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EXCELL (Gypsies Passing Through) EXTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EYERS (Gypsies Passing Through) EYLE(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EYLETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) EYRES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FAA/FAW/FARR/FALL 1470-1909int) (Scotland &other locations) Ref Journal TFHS FADEN SMITH (Ref page 110; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, ) FAIR (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FAIRCHILD 1726 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FAIREY (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FAIRGRIEVE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FALKAD 1848 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FALKENNER 1834-1926 int (Cambridgeshire,Derberyshire, Northamptonshire, Surrey (Daws) FALKNER 1707 (Gypsies Passing Through) FALLARD 1881 (Devonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FANCOCK 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) FANNAN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) FARAGE (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 26 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 FARALLS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FAREDIGE 1744 (Gypsies Passing Through) FAREY/FAIRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FARINGDEN 1784(Gypsies Passing Through) FARLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) FARMER 1633 (Gypsies Passing Through) FARNABY 1740 (Gypsies Passing Through) FARNEY 1760 (Gypsies Passing Through) FARNFIELD (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FARNHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FARO (Gypsies Passing Through) FARONE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) FARR "old mother" 1573 (Gypsies Passing Through) FARRAR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FARRIN (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FARROW (Cumberland, Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) FAULKNER 1783 (Gypsies Passing Through) FAVEL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FAW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FAWCETT 1739 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FAWKES 1776 (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) FAYETT 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FAZZ (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FEANCOURT 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) FEARNE/ 1598-1641 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FEARNSIDE(Gypsies Passing Through) FEATHERSTON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FEATHERSTONE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FEATHERSTONE 1599-1621 (Durham, Middlesex, Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson) FELLOWS (Gypsies Passing Through) FELTHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FEMINE 1537 (Scot,Eng) Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) FENINGTON (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) FENNELL 1963 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) FENNER (Buckinghamshire, Kent, Oxfordshire) FENNIS (Gypsies Passing Through) FENSHAM 1720 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FENWICK 1592-1891 (int) (Durham, Norfolk, Scotland) FERGUSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) FERGUSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FERNIE (Wales,Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FERNOUGH 1767 (Gypsies Passing Through) FERRARI 1891 (Norfolk) FERRIS (Gypsies Passing Through) FEWELL 1881 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FIDDLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FIELD (Gypsies Passing Through) FINCH 1542 (Gypsies Passing Through) FINCO/FINGO Gypsies in Britain Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) FINDLEY 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FINLAYSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) FINLEY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FINN (Gypsies Passing Through , Ire & 1881 Census UK) FINNEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 27 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 FINNICK “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) FISHER (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) FISHER 1590 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FISKE 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FITCH (Gypsies Passing Through) FITZGERALD (Gypsies Passing Through) FITZGIBBON 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FITZPATRICK born Scot) (Census 1891) FLACK (Gypsies Passing Through) FLAHERTY (Ireland, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FLANIGAN (Scot)(Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLANIGHAN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) FLEAR 1774-1961 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FLECKIE 1770 (Scot Bord, Scot (Ref Journal of the Romany and T.F.H.S.) FLECKIE 1770 (The Scottish Boarders, NBD, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FLEMING 1748 Yorkshire (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLEMMING (Ireland) (Convicts) FLETCHER 1620 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLETCHER(England Census 1841) FLIGHT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLINN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLINT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLODDER 1645 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FLOOD (Gypsies Passing Through) FLORANCE /FLORENCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FLORENCE/FLORENS/FLEURANS (Ref Journal of the Romany and T.F.H.S.) FLURREY 1772 (Gypsies Passing Through) FLYM (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FLYNN (Ireland) 4 Egremont Street, Brighton RG10/1075/F? FOARD Rose (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) FOE (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) FOGAERTY 1725 (Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) FONT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FONTAINE (Gypsies Passing Through) FOOKES 1690 (Gypsies Passing Through) FOPTON 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FORALL(Gypsies Passing Through) FORBES (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) FORD/FOORD 1673-1891 Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FOREMAN Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FORESHAM (Gypsies Passing Through) FORSE (Wales) (Valley Stream) FORSTER 1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FORSYTH ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) FORSYTH (Wales) (Valley Stream) FOSSETT (Eng Census 1861) (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S) FOSTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FOULDS (Gypsies Passing Through) FOULKES/FOWKES 1825-1879 (COR, Derbyshire, Powys, Sussex) (Dawson) FOULSTON 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FOUNTELL 1722 (Gypsies Passing Through) FOWLER (born Ireland/England) ( Scotland Census 1851) FOWLER (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 28 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 FOWLIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) FOWLING 1641 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FOX George R(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FOXALL 1975 (Nottinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FOXON, 1747 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) FOXWELL 1750 (Burial Surrey, Ref Gypsies Passing Through) FRAISER 1759 (Gypsies Passing Through) FRAMPTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRANCE 1727 (Northamptonshire) FRANCIS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRANHAM (Gypsies Passing Through) FRANKHAM ( 1851 Census)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRANKLAND 1807-1909 (See Robert Dawson ARITF for locations) FRANKLIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRANKLING 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through) FRANKLYN (Gypsies Passing Through) FRASER ( Scotland Census 1871) FRASER 1745 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FREELAND 1635(Gypsies Passing Through) FREELOVE 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FREEMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) FRENCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRENCHMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FREWEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRIAR, 1749- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) FRIEND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FRILL (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891)- FRIZZELL/FRIZEL 1748 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FROGLEY 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) FROST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FROUD (Raglan Marriages Monmouthshire Wales 1856) FULBROOK Philip 1747 (Gypsies Passing Through) FULCHER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FULLEN (Cumberland, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FULLER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FULLICK (Gypsies Passing Through) FULTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FUNNELL (Gypsies Passing Through) FURIE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) FURNISS 1700 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FURRANS 1824 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FURY/FEARY 1891(Ireland)-present (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FUSSEL 1610 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) FUTCHER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GABB 1891 (Glouscestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GABRIEL 1577 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GAFF (Gypsies Passing Through) GAGE Walter (Gypsies Passing Through) GAGINO (See GAWINO) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GAINES 1844-1888 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GALE 1807 (Gypsies Passing Through) GALLACHER ( Birth Place Ireland) Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) GALLACHER (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) GALLAGHAN (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 29 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 GALLAGHER (born Scotland-Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1841) GALLAGHER (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GALLERY 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through) GALLOWAY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GAM/GAMM 1772 GAMBLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GAMMON (Hampshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GAMSTER/GAMESTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GANDEN 1688 (Gypsies Passing Through) GANNETT/GARNETT 1881-1891 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GARDENER 1714 (Gypsies Passing Through) GARDINER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GARDNER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GAREY 1753 (Gypsies Passing Through) GARGON, 1760 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GARNER (Gypsies Passing Through) GARNETT 1819 (Gypsies Passing Through) GARRATT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GARRETT 1705 (Gypsies Passing Through) GARROD /GARRAD(Gypsies Passing Through) GARSIDES 1725 (Gypsies Passing Through) GARVEY 1851 (Armagh Ire, Yorkshire) GARWOOD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GASCOYNE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GASKEN (Gypsies Passing Through) GASKIN 1578 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GASS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GASSER (Hampshire, Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GASTELOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GATEFIELD 1722(Gypsies Passing Through) GATEHOUSE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GATES (Gypsies Passing Through) GATRELL/GUTREL ( Census (1871) Romanygenes) GAUL 1613 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GAUSDEU (Gypsies Passing Through) GAVEN 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GAWINO/ GAGINO 1505-1863 (int) (Scotland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GAYNOR (Gypsies Passing Through) GAZE 1891 (Essex, Glouscestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF (See Robert Dawson) GEATER/GEATOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GEBBIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GEDDER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GEDDES 1800 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GEDENSAY 1739 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GEE(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GEER 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GEMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) GEMMEL (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) GENT 1720 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GENTLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GEORGE 1554 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GERAGHTY (Ireland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GERRARD 1968-1971 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GERRISH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 30 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 GESS /GUEST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GEUSH (Gypsies Passing Through) GEWAINGS 1662 (Gypsies Passing Through) GIBBEN (Ire,Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GIBBONS 1579 (Gypsies Passing Through) GIBBS 1605-1891 (Gypsies Passing Through) GIBSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GILBERT Lucy (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILBURN 1766 (Gypsies Passing Through) GILBY 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GILES 1730 (Gypsies Passing Through) GILHAM (Gypsies Passing Through) GILIGSON 1735 (Gypsies Passing Through) GILKES 1745 (Gypsies Passing Through) GILL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILLAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILLESPIE (Scotland Census 1841) GILLET (Gypsies Passing Through) GILLHAM 1798 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILLIES 1851 (Dumfriesshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GILLIN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GILLINHAM, 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) GILLIS (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GILLMAN/GILMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILMORE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GILROY 1851 (Lancashire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GILSON (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) GINNETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GIRLING 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GITHENS ( Scotland Census 1871) GLADWIN 1686 (Gypsies Passing Through) GLAIZIER 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GLANSIE (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GLASS 1789 (Gypsies Passing Through) GLASTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GLASTONBURY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GLEAVES (Gypsies in the Surrey Poor Law Records Gypsies Passing Through) GLEN 1755 (Kent, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GLENDINNING ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) GLENN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GLOSSOP (Gypsies Passing Through) GLOVER 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOBLE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOD(I)SMARK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GODDARD Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GODDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) GODFREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GODWARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GODWIN, 1806- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GOFFE 1682 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOLASS (Nfk 1861 Census) GOLB(E)Y (Aus,Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOLDEN (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 31 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 GOLDING Edward (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOLDMAN 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GOLDSMITH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOLDSMITH(England Census 1841) GOLLATHER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOMM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOOCH (Gypsies Passing Through) GOOD (Gypsies Passing Through) GOODBERRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOODEN, 1703- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GOODENOUGH ( Berkshire ) GOODING 1775 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOODMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOODSON, 1777-Sproxton (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GOODWIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOODY 1784 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOODYEAR 1629 (Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) GOOKEY, 1795-Catthorpe (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GOOLDER John 1688 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOOSLET (1826 NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875) GORDEVOY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GORDON 1670 (Scot, Eng) (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S ( Scotland Census 1851) GOREY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GORMAN (Ref page107; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald GORMON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GORRIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GOSDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) GOSLER 1924 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GOSS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOSTER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOSTLOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOTHERD 1763 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOTTHEIMER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOUDIE (Ayreshire Scotland 1841 Census) GOUGE 1664 (Gypsies Passing Through) GOUGH (Eng) (England Census 1861)(Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S) GOULD(Gypsies Passing Through) GOULDING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GOW 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GOWAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRAHAM (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) GRAHAM 1662-1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRAIG 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRAINGE 1664 (Scotland ,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRAINGER (Gypsies Passing Through) GRAMMER 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through) GRANGER (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GRANT 1699 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRATTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRAVES (Gypsies Passing Through) GRAY ( Birth Place England) GRAY 1576 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRAY/GREY John(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRAYLAND (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRAYSTOCK 1685 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 32 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 GREEDAS (London ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GREEN 1574 (Place: St George –Lancashire) (Census 1861) GREEN @ SHERWOOD (Eng) 1861 Census) GREENER (Gypsies Passing Through) GREENHEAD (Gypsies Passing Through) GREENSTREET (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GREENWAY/GREENAWAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and T.F.H.S.) GREENWOOD 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) GREGG (S) 1719 (Gypsies Passing Through) GREGORY (Ref page 189; “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) GREIG 1792-1880 (int) (Norfolk, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRETT/GRITT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GREY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) GRIBBEN ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) GRIBBON, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GRICE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRIFFIN 1599-1705 (Gypsies Passing Through) GRIFFITHS 1825-1925 (Gypsies Passing Through) )(Eng,Wales) GRIGG 1709 (Gypsies Passing Through) GRIGGS Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GRIME(S) (Gypsies Passing Through) GRIMWOOD (no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRIST (Gypsies Passing Through) GRITT Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) 82 GROOM (Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GROOME-LOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GROTE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GROUNSEL 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GROVE, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GRUNDER 1851 (KER, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GRUNY (born Ireland,(Census Place Chorlton Medlock -Lancashire 1861 Census) GUBBINS 1966-1968 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GUDGEON (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GUERNEY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GUESS /GESS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GUEST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GUIBERT (Channell Island 1881 Census) GUINSLER ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) GUIVER (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GULLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GUMBLE Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GUMBRELL/GUMBIL (Gypsies Passing Through) GUPWELL 1806 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GURNER, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) GURNEY 1825(Gypsies Passing Through) GURNIT/GURNYE/GURNEY 1741 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) GURR Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) GUTHRIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) GUTHRIE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HABARD 1954 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HACKETT 1722 (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) HACKSHAW (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HADFIELD 1712 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 33 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HADLEY 1891 (Northumberland) (Gypsies Passing Through) HADSON 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HAGAN (Ire) (Gypsies Passing Through) HAGGERTY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HAINES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAKEN(Gypsies Passing Through) HALE/HAIL(S) (Gypsies Passing Through) HALES 1812 (Gypsies Passing Through) HALEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HALFACRE (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) HALFORD 1791-1860 (Leicestershire) (Gypsies Passing Through) HALL 1622 (Gypsies Passing Through) HALLAS 1963 (Cumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HALLETT (Gypsies Passing Through) HALLIDAY (Scot,Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HALLIER (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HALLING (Gypsies Passing Through) HALLIWELL (Gypsies Passing Through) HALLOWAY 1612 (Gypsies Passing Through) HALSEY 1716 (Gypsies Passing Through) HAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAMBLETON (Scot 1702) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HAMER 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HAMES, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HAMES, AMES/AIMES 1675 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HAMILTON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) HAMILTON 1865-1891 (Middlesex ,Scotland) HAMMETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAMMOND/HAMMON 1592-1899 (Gypsies Passing Through) HAMPTON Elizabeth (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HANCOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAND, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HANDS (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HANES (Gypsies Passing Through) HANLY (Scot Census 1851) HANNAH (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HANNEFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HANNIGAN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HANNINGTON (Gypsies Passing Through) HANSLY (surname not certain) St Clement -Cornwall (1851 Census) HANSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARBER 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through) HARBOUR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARBY 1729-1923 (Kent, Sussex,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HARDCASTLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARDING 1742 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARDINGHAM 1881 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HARDS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARDY 1709-1837 (Gypsies Passing Through) HARES (see AYRES) (Gypsies Passing Through) HARGRAVES (Gypsies Passing Through) HARGREAVES 1653 (Yorkshire (Gypsies Passing Through) HARKER (Cumberland, (Gypsies Passing Through) HARKINS (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) HARKNETT (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 34 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HARLAND (Gypsies Passing Through) HARLOE, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HARLOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARMER (Gypsies Passing Through) HARMSWORTH 1730- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HARPER 1774-1851 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) HARRESVER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) HARRINGTON/ARRINGTON 1621 (Gypsies Passing Through) HARRIS 1556 (Gypsies Passing Through) HARRISON Ann 1727 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HARRY 1820, (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) HART (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARTLEY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1841) HARTLEY, 1703 (Gypsies Passing Through) HARTWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARVEN 1709 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) HARVEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HARWOOD 1652 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) HASARD (Census) HASTIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) HASTINGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HATCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HATFIELD 1712 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) HATHAWAY Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HATHER “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) HATHERALL (Wiltshire ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HATLY Elizabeth (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) HATSEYGAW 1640-1642 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HATSEYGGROW “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) HATTON /HATTOM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAUSFORD (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) HAVISON 1661 (Ref Baptisms Gypsies Passing Through) HAW(S) 1554-1792 (Kent,Scotland,Yorkshire.( Compare How )(See Robert Dawson ARITF) HAWKES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAWKINS (Census Place: Aldington -Kent 1861 Census) HAWKINS Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAWS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAY (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HAY( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) HAYDON (Gypsies Passing Through) HAYES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYMAR 1704 (Gypsies Passing Through) HAYNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYRE 1881 (Suffolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HAYS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYWARD Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAYWOOD Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAZARD 1625(Eng) (Gypsies Passing Through) HAZELDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) HAZELDINE 1881 (Somerset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HAZELGROVE (Wiltshire England 1816)  Page 35 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HAZELHURST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HAZELWITH 1634 (Gypsies Passing Through) HEAD Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEADLEY (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEALD 1806 (@ Taylor)(Aust, Nottingham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEAP(S) 1775-1850 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEAPS 1861Census) HEARN(E) (see also HERON)( Thomas Rossar-Mescro )(Eng,Wales) HEARN/HERNE )(Eng,Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family H/S) HEARNE )(Eng,Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family H/S) HEARSCOTT, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HEARTLESS 1722 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEATH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEATHCOTE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEATON 1632 (Gypsies Passing Through) HEAVER(Gypsies Passing Through) HEBBLEWHITE 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEBOW Elizabeth 1720(Gypsies Passing Through) HEBRARD 1965-1967 (Worcestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEDDON 1671 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEDGES (Gypsies Passing Through) HEEBEF 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEESON (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEFFERNAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEIGHES (Gypsies Passing Through) HEINE (Gypsies Passing Through) HELDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) HELGHWAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HELLIANS (Census Place: Ancoats -Lancashire 1861 Census) HELYER (Gypsies Passing Through) HEMING/HEMMING(S) 1722 (Gypsies Passing Through) HEMMINGTON 1777 (Gypsies Passing Through) HEMMITT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HENDERSON ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HENDERSON (Gypsies Passing Through) HENDRIE (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1841) HENDRY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HENNESLEY 1851 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HENRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HENRY (Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy HENSLEY 1730 (Gypsies Passing Through) HENSON, 1680-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HENTY (Gypsies Passing Through) HEPBURN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HERBERT ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) HERBERT (Gypsies Passing Through) HERMAN 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HERON/HEARNE/HERRING 1558- (Gypsies Passing Through) HERRETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HERRETT 1919 (Buckinghamshire, Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HERRICK (1861 Census) HERRICKINGS 1881 (Bedfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HERRING (See HERON)  Page 36 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HERRINGTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HERRIOT (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HERRON (Gypsies Passing Through) HERSEY (Gypsies Passing Through) HERTON 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HESCOTT (Gypsies Passing Through) HESKEY 1696 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HESLOP (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HESTER (Gypsies Passing Through) HEWELL Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEWER (Northamptonshire, Warrickshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HEWETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEWETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HEWITT/HEWETT 1891-1910 (Aust ) HEWKIN (Gypsies Passing Through) HEWLATTE 1702(Gypsies Passing Through) HEWLETT (Gypsies Passing Through) HEWS 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) HEWSON, 1861 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HIBBERD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HICKERING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HICKEY (Ireland) HICKMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HICKMOTT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HICKS Eliza(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HIDE/ HYDE, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HIGGIN(S), EGGINS/HEGGINS 1595-1950 (int) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HIGGINGBOTTOM –Present (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HIGGINS ( Birth Place Ireland- Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HIGGS 1795 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HILDEN Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HILDINGS 1638-1961 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HILL 1838 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HILLIARD (Gypsies Passing Through) HILLIER (Gypsies Passing Through) HILLMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) HILLS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HILTON 1567 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HILYER 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) HIMESS 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HINCHIFFE (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HINCHIN (Gypsies Passing Through) HINCHLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HIND 1851 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HINDS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HINES (Gypsies Passing Through) HINKLEY/HINCKLEY 1891 (Hertfordshire, Kent, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HINKS (Census Place Sundon-Bedfordshire 1861 Census) HINSON 1836-1881(London, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HIRD 1720-1881 (int) (Staffordshire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HISCOCK/HISCOX 1708 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HISCOX (Staffordshire, Warrickshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HITCHCOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 37 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HITCHEN (Gypsies Passing Through) HITCHONS (Gypsies Passing Through) HO(L)MES 1638-present (int) (See Robert Dawson ARITFfor locations) HOADLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOBBING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOBBS (Gypsies Passing Through) HOBDAY (Gypsies Passing Through) HOCKLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) HODDER (Gypsies Passing Through) HODG(E)KINS 1861 (Gypsies Passing Through) HODGE (S) 1739 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HODGEKISS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HODGIT (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HODGKINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HODGSON 1663 (Scot,Eng) (Gypsies Passing Through) HOGAN (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HOGBEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOGDON 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOGG (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOUGH (Eng) (England Census 1861) HOLDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLDER 1744 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) (Con) HOLDIN 1689 (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLDSTOCK (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLDSWORTH (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLFORD 1873 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOLLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOLLETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOLLIN 1664 (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLLINGDALE 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOLLINGER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HOLLINGSHEAD (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLLINS/HOLLINGES 1619-1686 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOLLIS (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLLISON Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOLLISTER (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOLLOWAY/HOLLWAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOLLOWES 1583 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOLMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLMES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOLT (Lancashire) (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLTON (Gypsies Passing Through) HOLYDAY /HOLLIDAY 1736(Gypsies Passing Through) HOLYOAKE 1851 (Devon) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOMES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HONE (S) 1800 (Ire) (England Census 1851)(Gypsies Passing Through) HONOUR 1738 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOOD 1851(Gypsies Passing Through) HOOKER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOOPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOPE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOPEKIRK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HOPKINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOPWOOD 1630 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 38 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HORAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HORAR 1881 (Essex, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HORGAN/ORGAN (Wales) (Valley Stream HORLBEY 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HORLOCK (Gypsies Passing Through) HORN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HORNBY 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HORNE (Kent) (Gypsies Passing Through) HORNEGOLD (Gypsies Passing Through) HORNER 1594 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HORNIK (Hertfordshire , London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HORNSBEE/ HORNSBY 1705 (Gypsies Passing Through) HORROCKS/HORRICK (1835 Census) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HORSHAN1710 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HORSMAN 1765 (Gypsies Passing Through) HORSWELL (Census Place Redruth-Cornwall (1851 Census) HORTON, 1580 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HORWIL (Gypsies Passing Through) HOSKINS 1908-1940 (Herefordshire, Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOTCHKINS (Gypsies Passing Through) HOUGHTON 1712 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOUNSAM/SKELTON 1786 (Gypsies Passing Through) HOUNSDOME (Gypsies Passing Through) HOUNSLOW (Gypsies Passing Through) HOUSE (Gypsies Passing Through) HOUSTON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) HOVEDEN 1718 (Gypsies Passing Through) HOW 1702 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOWALD ( Scotland Census 1871) HOWARD 1740 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HOWATT (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HOWDEN 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOWEN (See Owen) HOWITT 1698 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HOWLES 1751 (Gypsies Passing Through) HOYLE 1881 (Devonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUBBARD (Hertfordshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) HUBERT (Surrey) (Gypsies Passing Through) HUDD (Gypsies Passing Through) HUDGIN 1660 (Gypsies Passing Through) HUDSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUES 1770 (Gypsies Passing Through) HUGGINS (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUGHES ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HUGHES 1771 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUGHS, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HUGO 1875 (Gypsies Passing Through) HULBERT (Gypsies Passing Through) HULSE (Gypsies Passing Through) HUMBER 1753 (Gypsies Passing Through) HUMBLES 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUMETT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUMM (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 39 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 HUMPHEYS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUMPHRIES/HUMPHREY 1770/1960 (int) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUNGATE 1660 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUNGTINGTON (Gypsies Passing Through) HUNT 1781 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUNTEFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUNTER (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) HUNTER, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HUNTINGFIELD (Hampshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUNTINGFOLD Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUNTLEY Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HURD (Gypsies Passing Through) HURFORD, (Eng) (England Census 1861) HURLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HURN (Gypsies Passing Through) HURNELL (Gypsies Passing Through) HURST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUSBAND 1616 (Yorkshire )_ (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUSE Robarde 1681 (Gypsies Passing Through) HUSKINGS (Gypsies Passing Through)` HUSKISSON Henry (Bedford Prison Records) HUSSY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUSTON (Gypsies Passing Through) HUT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUTCHESON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) HUTCHING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUTCHINS/-INGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HUTCHINSON, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) HUTCHISON ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) HUTSON 1881 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HUTTON ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) HUXLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) HYDE (Gypsies Passing Through) HYLAND 1908 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) HYNCHIN (Gypsies Passing Through) IBBETSON 1851 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) IBBOT (Gypsies Passing Through) IDLE (Gypsies Passing Through) ILLETT 1881 (Cambridgeshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ILLINGWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) IMRE (Scotland) INCE 1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITFfor locations) INDOW 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) INESON (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ING(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) INGRAM 1621 (Eng,Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) INMAN 1632 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) INNS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) INWOOD 1750 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) IRELAND (Gypsies Passing Through) IRISH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) IRONSIDE (Aberdeenshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) IRVING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ISAACS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 40 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ISAU 1900 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ISDEN (London, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) IVAT, 1615- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) IVE(R/S) (Gypsies Passing Through) IVES(Gypsies Passing Through) IZZARD 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) JACKMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) JACKSON, Elizabeth1527-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JACOBS (Gypsies Passing Through) JACOBSON, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JACOMB, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JACQUES/JAGGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JAMES ( Birth Place England) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) JAMES (see STANDLEY John) (Ref Romanygenes) JAMES 1750-present (England, Ireland, Wales, U.S.A) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) JAMESON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) JAMESON 1698-1978 (Scotland, Yorkshire) JAMIESON ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) JAMIESON (Census Place Elgin -Morayshire (1851 Census) JAMPHREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JANES/JAYNES 1839 (Somerset) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JANSEN 1742 (Gypsies Passing Through) JAQUES, 1749 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JARDINE (Born England) (Scotland Census 1861) JARLETT (Lincolnshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JARMAN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JARRETT (Gypsies Passing Through) JARVIS/JERVIS 1803-1858 (Midlands, especially Nottinghamshire) See Dawson ARITF) JAY/JAYES (Gypsies Passing Through) JAYNES (see JANES) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JEEVES Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JEFFERIES Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JEFFERS (Gypsies Passing Through) JEFFERSON 1891 (Durham) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JEFFERY “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) JEFFREYS (Gypsies Passing Through) JEFFS/ / 1675-present (Aus England, U.S.A) (Gypsies Passing Through) JENKINS 1794-1881 (Berkshire, GLD, Wales, Wiltshire) (DAWSON) JENKINSON1608-Thistleton (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JENNER (Gypsies Passing Through) JENNINGS Emily(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JENNISON 1891 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JERMY 1851 (Norfolk) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JERVIS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JESS family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JEWELL (see JOULES) JIMINEZ (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JINKS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JOANES 1630 (Gypsies Passing Through) JOHN(S) 1706(Gypsies Passing Through) JOHNSON (1496 .Census place Penwith -Cornwall) 1841 Census( UK , Scotland) JOHNSTON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) JOHNSTONE (Census Place Murroes –Angus 1841 Census)  Page 41 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 JOINTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JOLES (Gypsies Passing Through) JOLIFFE (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JOLLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JOLLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JOLSER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JONES 1567-present (Aust, Scot, Wales) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JORDAN Edward(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JORISSE 1635 (Scotland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JOULES/JOWLES /JEWELLS 1825 (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.S JOWETT 1851 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JOYCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JOYNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JUBB (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) JUDD (Gypsies Passing Through) JUDGE 1881(Sussex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JULL, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) JUNE (1841 Census Scotland) JUNNIX 1909 (London) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JURY 1881 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) JUST 1881 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KAIRNS (see CAIRNS) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KALE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KARLOFF (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KARPATH Sophie (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KASE (Gypsies Passing Through) KAY (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) KAY(E)S 1881-1983(int) (Kent, Lincolnshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KEATE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KEATS (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KEBIBY (Gypsies Passing Through) KEEFE (Gypsies Passing Through) KEELER (Gypsies Passing Through) KEENAN 1891 (Durham) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KEET/SKEET(S) 1772-present (See Robert Dawson ARITF) KEFFORD (London) (Gypsies Passing Through) KEHOE (Gypsies Passing Through) KEIGHTON (Gypsies Passing Through) KEIR (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) KEITH (Scot) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KELBIE/KELBY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) KELBY(IE) 1970- (Ayreshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KELLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) KELLOCK (born Derry, Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) KELLY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) KELLY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) KELLY 1697-1891 (int) ( Aust, Ire, England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KELMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) KEMBLE (Gypsies Passing Through) KEMP 1594 (Aust, Sussex) (Gypsies Passing Through) KEMPSTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KEMPSTER (Hampshire, Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KENDALL 1599 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 42 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 KENDALL1599 (Gypsies Passing Through) KENDRICK(Gypsies Passing Through) KENNEBY 1760 (Gypsies Passing Through) KENNEDY 1439-present(int) (Scot, Aust, England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KENNETT (Gypsies Passing Through) KENNEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KENNY (Gypsies Passing Through) KENT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KERR/CARR 1625-1869 (England, Scotland) (Ref Journal of the Romany and T.F.H.S.) KERRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KERSHAW 1891 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KETTERIDGE (Gypsies Passing Through) KETTERING, 1741/2- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) KETTLE (Gypsies Passing Through) KETTS 1807 (Cambridgeshire, Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KEYLOCK/KILLOCK 1893-1932 (Kent, Sussex, Staffordshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KICK (Gypsies Passing Through) KIDD (Norfolk) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KIDGER (Gypsies Passing Through) KILBY ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) KILLICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KILLMAN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) KILLTHORPE (see CHILCOTT) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KILRAIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KILSBIE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KILSBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)” KIMBER (Gypsies Passing Through) KINASSON 1656 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KINDON (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KING 1615Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KINGSTON 1891 (Hertfordshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KIPSON Elizabeth 1746 (Gypsies Passing Through) KIRBY Elizabeth 1679 (Gypsies Passing Through) KIRCHER (Gypsies Passing Through) KIRK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KIRKWOOD 1891(Scot) (Cumberland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KIRLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KITCH(E)MAN 1610-1851 (int) (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KIRPER (Eng) (Census 1891) KITCHER (Somerset, Worcestershire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KITCHIN, 1651 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) KITSON 1891 (Middlesex, Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KITT 1881 (Cornwall, Essex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KIVELL 1881 (Devonshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KNAPPETT (Gypsies Passing Through) KNELL 1881 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) KNIGHT 1725 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KNIGHTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KNOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KNOLL 1771 (Gypsies Passing Through) KNOLLSE T 1654 (Gypsies Passing Through) KNOTT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KNOWLES 1808 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 43 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 KNOX, (Census-1861- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council KOOS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KUELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) KYRN 1801(Gypsies Passing Through) LACY, -10 .11. 1762-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LADDS (Eng) (1861 Census) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAFFIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAIDLAW 1787 (Scotland) (Gypsies Passing Through) LAKE( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) LAKEY (Kent, London) (Gypsies Passing Through) LALEY 1851 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) LALOW Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) LAMB 1657 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAMBERT 1685 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAMBOURNE 1782-1850 (Nottinghamshire, Oxford, Warick See Robert Dawson ARITF) LAMINGE 1686 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) LAMP present Kent See Robert Dawson ARITF) LAMPART 1680 (Gypsies Passing Through) LANCASTER, 1592 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LANE 1812(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LANEDON 1640 (Gypsies Passing Through) LANEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LANG 1851 (Essex, Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LANGDON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LANGLANDS 1908 (Scotland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LANGLEY 1802 (Staffordshire ) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LANGRIDGE 1905 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LANKFORD 1751 (Gypsies Passing Through) LANSDOWNE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LARGE, (Gypsies Passing Through) LARK (Huntingdonshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LARKING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LARKSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LARKSON (Huntingdonshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LASSUM 1806 (Gypsies Passing Through) LATHAM 1639-1794 (int) (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LATHWELL 1675 (Gypsies Passing Through) LATIMORE 1726 (Gypsies Passing Through) LAUNE 1637 (Gypsies Passing Through) LAURENCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAVELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAVENDER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAW (Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAWFORD Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAWLEY 1841 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) LAWLOR 1553 (Scotland) (Gypsies Passing Through) LAWRENCE 1609- (Eng, Wales) (Gypsies Passing Through) LAWS 1881-1901 See Robert Dawson ARITFfor locations) LAWSON 1676 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LAY 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) LAYCOCK 1671 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) LAZENBY 1767 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LAZONE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 44 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 LEACH 1713 (Gypsies Passing Through) LEARY (born Ireland) Census Place: St Peter -Sussex, Census 1861) LEATHERHEAD 1765-1877(int) (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LEATHERLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEAWES 1620 (Vagrant) Chesterton, Oxfordshire LECKENBY 1721 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LEE ( Birth Place Not Stated) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) LEE 1625 (Aust, Scotland, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITFfor locations) LEECH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEES( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) LEESON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEGG (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEGLEY or BEGLEY (born Ireland Census Place: St George -Lancashire 1861 Census LEIGHTON (Cambridgeshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LEITCH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LELEHAM/LEEMING/LEEDING/LEMAN 1612-1881 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LEMAN 1762 (Gypsies Passing Through) LENARK 1881 (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LENFT Peter (Gypsies Passing Through) LENNOY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) LEONARD 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LERIE (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) LESLIE (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LESTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LETHAN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) LEVER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEVERIDGE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEVI/LEVY 1851 (London,Poland, Staffordshire, Warrickshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LEWCOCK Olivia (Gypsies Passing Through) LEWEN/LEWIN 1706 (Gypsies Passing Through) LEWIS 1775 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LEY (Gypsies Passing Through) LIDDLE (Gypsies Passing Through) LIDSTONE (Gypsies Passing Through) LIGHT 1725 (Census place South Horsham -Sussex 1861 Census) LIGHT/LEIGHT John(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LIGHT/LITE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LIGHTFOOT 1714 Surrey (Gypsies Passing Through) LILLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LIMSOM 1881 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LINCH 1965 (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LINDSAY (Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) LINDSEY (see LINSLEY (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LINEKER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LINES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LINGIL, 1717-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County LINK 1818 (Gypsies Passing Through) LINLEY, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LINNEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LINWOOD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LISTER 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LITI SMITH (Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s)  Page 45 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 LITTLE 1684(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LIVERMORE 1734 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LIVERTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LLEWELLIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LLOYD 1725 (Gypsies Passing Through) LOCK 1725 (Wales, England, USA) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOCKHART (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) LOCKLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOCKTON (England Census 1861) LODEN 1818 (Gypsies Passing Through) LODER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LODGE 1757 (Gypsies Passing Through) LOFT 1881-1891 (Bedfordshire, Kent) (Gypsies Passing Through) LOFTUS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOIL (Shropshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOKER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOMAS(England Census 1841) LONG (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LONGBOTTOM 1728 (Gypsies Passing Through) LONGDON (Gypsies Passing Through) LONGWORTH 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOOMES 1753- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LORD, 1736 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LOREL Cock “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) LOREN ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) LORREKER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOTHERINGTON 1891 (London ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOUCH (Gypsies Passing Through) LOUTH (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOVAGE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOVE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOVEGROVE (1905 England) LOVELACE (Gypsies Passing Through) LOVELAGE 1881 (Huntingdonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOVELAND (London, Middlesex, Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOVELL 1487)(Eng,Wales) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, pub 1930s) LOVELOCK (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOVERIDGE 1792 (Aust, England,Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF for loc LOVEY (Cornwall, London, Wiltshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOWDER (Gypsies Passing Through) LOWFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LOWRIE (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LOWTHER 1775 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LUCAS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LUCHMORE 1764 (Gypsies Passing Through) LUDDINGTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LUDLOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LUFF(E), 1718- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) LUMBEE 1678 (Gypsies Passing Through) LUNDY/LUNDIE 1770 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) LUNNAY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) LUNNUR? (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LURRY William A 31 Son Hawker Brighton, Sussex 28 Newhaven Street, St. Peter RG12/0806/F? LUSH (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 46 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 LYNCH (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) LYNCH (Census Place: St George -Lancashire (Census 1861) LYNCLIS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) LYNE Margarett 1630/1(Gypsies Passing Through) LYON/LYONS (Norfolk) (Gypsies Passing Through) MABBUTT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MacALISTER 1891-1970 (Scotland ) See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacBRIDE 1827 See Robert Dawson ARITF) MACCAFEE (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MacCLEAN 1799 (Gypsies Passing Through) MacCOMBIE 1816 (Gypsies Passing Through) MacDONALD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MACE 1735 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MacFARLAND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MacFARLANE 1750-1977 (England, Ireland, North Ire, Wales0 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacGILVRON 1821 (Northern Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacISAAC ( Census Place: South Uist -Inverness-shire 1841 Census) MACKAY(Gypsies Passing Through) MacKEIG (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MacKENZIE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MACKEY (Gypsies Passing Through) MACKIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MACKLIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MACKNALL Rowland 1723 (Gypsies Passing Through) MACLEAN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) MacLEAN/McLEAN/MACLIN 1618-present (Aust,Eng, Scot) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacMILLAN 1746-1883 (int) (Devon, London, Scot) ( ref Am Baile Scottish site) MacNAIR (Lancashire, Northumberland,Scotland, Yorkshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacNEE (Eng, Scot) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MacNEIL (Scotland 1841 Census) MACTAVISH (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MADDOCKS/MADDOX 1778- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County MADLEY 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAGEE 1891 (London, Ire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAGUIRE (Ire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAHON (Co Carlow Ireland) (Carlow Roots Web) MAHONEY Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAIG (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAILE 1949 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAINER 1815 (Gypsies Passing Through) MAIR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAISH (Gypsies Passing Through) MAISLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAITBY (Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAJOR (Gypsies Passing Through) MAKEHAM 1851 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MALE 1773 (Gypsies Passing Through) MALEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MALLA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MALLENS 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MALLETT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MALONE 1763, Surrey (Gypsies Passing Through) MAN, 1638- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council)  Page 47 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 MANDER/MANDERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANES 1891 ( Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MANGES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANITO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANKLOW 1881 (England, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MANLEY 1908 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MANLY 1814 (Gypsies Passing Through) MANN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANNING/MANNINGS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANNION 1906 (Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MANSER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANSFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANTEL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MANTON 1695-1881(int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAPP (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAPPLEBECK 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MARCAR 1762 (Gypsies Passing Through) MARK/MARKS (Gypsies Passing Through) MARKEY ( Scotland Census 1871) MARKLAND 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MARLOW (Gypsies Passing Through) MARSDAN 1834 (Gypsies Passing Through) MARSH (Gypsies Passing Through) MARSHALL 1580 (Scot,Aust,Eng,Ire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MARTIN 1569 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MARZELOS 1977-1981 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MASAN 1697 (Gypsies Passing Through) MASKELL (Gypsies Passing Through) MASLIN (Gloucestershire, Worcestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MASON 1583 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MASSETER 1778 (Gypsies Passing Through) MASSEY 1681 (Gypsies Passing Through) MASTER/MASTERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MATCHEL (Gypsies Passing Through), MATCHETT (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MATCHWELL (present) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MATHESON( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) MATSKALLA 1553 (Scotland) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, MATTHEWS 1709 “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) MATTHIAS (Gypsies Passing Through), MATTHIS 1891 (Middlesex, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MATTINGLY (Gypsies Passing Through), MAUD 1681 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAUGHAN (see MOCHAN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAULDEN (Gypsies Passing Through), MAUND (Gypsies Passing Through), MAUNDER (MANDER) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAWBLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAXTED (Gypsies Passing Through), MAXTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAXWELL (Born England) (Scotland Census 1861) MAXWELL 1613-1881(int) (Oxfordshire, Scotland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAY 1746 (Gypsies Passing Through),  Page 48 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 MAYBANK (Gypsies Passing Through), MAYCOCK (Gypsies Passing Through), MAYHEF 1876 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MAYNARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAYNE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MAYOU (Gypsies Passing Through), MAYSON 1773 (Gypsies Passing Through), Mc LAUCHLANE ( 1841 Census Scotland) MCALLISTER ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) MCALLUM (born Scotland/England) ( Scotland Census 1851-1891) McARTHUR1861-1881- (Scotland) McBEAN (Gypsies Passing Through) MCBRIDE (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) McCABE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MCCALLUM (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) McCALLUM 1919-1974(int) (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCANN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) McCARL 1881 (Kent, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCARTHY, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MCCARTNEY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) McCARTNEY 1780 (Gypsies Passing Through) McCHESNEY (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCLEAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) McCLEAW 1881 (Bedfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCCLEES (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) McCLOSKEY 1840 (Northern Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCCOLL (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) McCORMICK 1826-1834 (Ireland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCOY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) McCRACKEN 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCREADY 1881-present (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McCREERY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MCCUGAN( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) McCULLOCH, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) McCURDY 1840 (Northen Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McDERMOTT 1831-1881 Ireland, Yorkshire (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McDONAGH 1848-present (Australia, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McDONALD family (Scot, England, USA ( ref Am Baile Scottish site) McDONNELL, 1736 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MCDOUGALL (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MCFADDEN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) MCFAE (Born Not Known) (Scotland Census 1861) MCFARLANE( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) McFEE/McPHEE @ DUFFY( 1856 Scot, Census place Wick –Caithness (1841 Census) McFERREN (1841 Census Scotland) MCFIE ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) MCGAVIN (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) McGIE (1841 Census Scotland) MCGILORG ( Scotland Census 1871) McGLONE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) McGLOUGHLAN ( 1891 Census Scotland) McGOUGH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MCGOWAN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891)  Page 49 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 McGRADY 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCGRAY (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MCGREGOR (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) McGREGOR, 1841 (Census) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) McGUIN (Lancashire, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McGUIRE/MAGUIRE 1840-1952 (Ireland, North Ireland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson) McILPHERSON 1671 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MCINFIE (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MCINNES (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) McINNEY Place: St George -Lancashire(Census 1861) MCINTOSH ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) McINTYRE 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McKAMES (Ireland, Lancashire, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McKAY 1840-1952 (Durham, Northern Ire, Scotland (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCKEE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) MCKENZIE ( Scotland Census 1871) McKENZIE (Gypsies Passing Through) McKIE 1881 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCKINNON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) MCLACHLAN (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) McLAREN 1891-present (Northumberland, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McLAUGHLIN 1821 (North Ireland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCLAY (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) MCLEAD ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) McLEAN (see MACLEAN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McLEAN/MACHLANE Charles(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller ) MCLEARN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) McLENNON (Gypsies Passing Through) MCLEOD ( Scotland Census 1871) (Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) McLEOD 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCMAHON ( Birth Place Ireland/Scotland) Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) McMANN(Gypsies Passing Through) MCMANUS ( Birth Place Scotland ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) MCMILLAN ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) MCMILLAN (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) McMILLAN (Gypsies Passing Through) MCMORRY (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) McMULLEN 1983 (Devonshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) McNAUGHTON( Ref 1841 Census Scotland) MCNECAR (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) McNIE (Leith South -Midlothian (Scotland 1841 Census) MCNIEL/McNEILL (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) MCPHEE ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) McPHERSON 1700 (Nottinghamshire, Scotland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) MCPHIE ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) McQUILLIAN 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McSHANE (Lanarkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) McVEY/McVEIGH (Co.Down, Yorkshire) MEAD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MEARS/MEERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MEATH 1954 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MECHE 1539 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MEDHURST (Gypsies Passing Through),  Page 50 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 MEE 1782 (Gypsies Passing Through), MEEKINS, 1748/49-Oakham (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MEGGETT 1829 (Australia, Herefordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MEKAN, 1698) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MEKINS, 1694-Great Bowden (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MELCHIOR (Gypsies Passing Through) MELLARS 1612 traveller (Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) MELLOR 1820-(Gypsies Passing Through) MELROSE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MENDAY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MENDOZA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MEPHAM (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MERCER 1789-present (int) (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MERCHANT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MERCHISON 1970 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MEREDITH (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MERRICK 1891 (Northumberland, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MERRITT -(Gypsies Passing Through) MERRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MERSER (Gypsies Passing Through) MESS (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) METCALFE 1709-1875 (int) (Norfolk, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) METHERELL 1881 (Devon) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MEYER/MAIR 1891(Huntingdonshire, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MICHAEL, 1717/18Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MICHMORE (Gypsies Passing Through) MICKLEWIGHT (Bloxwich -Staffordshire 1861 Census) MIDDELTON 1528 (Gypsies Passing Through) MIDGLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MIDMORE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MIDWINTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MIGILD 1704 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MILBURY William 1749 MILES 1617 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MILEY 1891 (Surrey, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MILL (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) MILL(S) 1743-1914 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MILLAR 1749 (Gypsies Passing Through) MILLARD (Gypsies Passing Through) MILLEM Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MILLENEAUX 1673 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MILLER 1725 (England, Scotland) (Gypsies Passing Through) MILLES Henry(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MILLS 1825(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MILLWARD/MILLWOOD/MILLARDS 1789/1962 (Derbyshire, Midlands) (Daws) MILNE, Elizabeth1706/7 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MILTON? (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MINERS (Cornwall) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MINNY 1736 (Derbyshire, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MINTA 1820 (Ireland, Suffolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MIRELI SMITH Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) MIRRALL (Italy, Eng) (Gypsies Passing Through) MIRRETT 1735 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 51 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 MIRSTON 1809 (Gypsies Passing Through) MITCHEL, 1667 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MITCHELL (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MOAR, 1737- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MOBBS 1798 (1861Census) MOCHAN Family(Ire)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOENSEIR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOLE (Gypsies Passing Through) MOLEY 1907 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOLINADI 1886 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MONEHAN (born Ireland Census Place: St George -Lancashire 1861 Census MONEY (Ireland) (Gypsies Passing Through) MONGAN (see MOCHAN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MONK(S) 1825 (Lancashire) (Gypsies Passing Through) MONTGOMERY 1865(early Scot) (Scotland) (Gypsies Passing Through) MOODIE (1841 Scotland Census ) MOODY (Kent) 1955 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOOR(E) 1582 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOORE (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) MOOREY 1826 (Gypsies Passing Through) MOORIGHT 1891 (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOORMANS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOORTEMOOR (see MORTIMER) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOORTON (Gypsies Passing Through) MORGAN (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MORGAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MORLEY 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MORRELL (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MORRIS/MORRICE 1705 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MORRISON ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) MORRISON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MORROW (Northern Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MORSE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MORTELET 1770 (Gypsies Passing Through) MORTIMER/MORRTEMOOR 1851 (Devon, Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson MORTON 1676-1960(int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOSCAB 1766 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOSELEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOSES, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MOSROESSA (Holland, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOSS ( Census Place: St George -Lancashire (Census 1861) 1891 (Gloucestershire, MOULDER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MOULSON/MOULTON 1879 (Warrickshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MOUNGAN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) MOWBAY/MOWBEY Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller MUCKIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MUDD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MUFFIN (Bedfordale) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MUGGLETON 1881 (Bedfordale) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MUIR (Gypsies Passing Through) MULHA (O)LAND (born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1851) MULISHEO Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 52 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 MULLEYN (see Mac LEAN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MULLINGER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MULRINE ( born Ireland) ( Scotland Census 1871) MULROONEY 1867 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MULROY (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MULVERDINE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MUNDAY (Ref Journal Of The Romany And Traveller Family History Society) MUNDEY/MONDAY 1591-1938(int) England, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson MUNDY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MUNIFORD (Gypsies Passing Through) MUNRO 1838 (NSW) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MURCHLAND (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) MURDICH (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) MURISON ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) MURPHY (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) MURPHY (Eng,Ire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) MURRAY (Ire) “Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) MURREY 1748 (Gypsies Passing Through) MUSGRAVE 1573-1711 (London, Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MUSGROVE, 1799 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MUSIER (Gypsies Passing Through) MUSK (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MUSTO/MUSTY/MUSKO 1831-1909 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson MUSTY, 1714- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) MUTTON (Liskeard -Cornwall 1861 Census) MYALT 1725 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) MYERS, 1739 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) NAIL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NANY(E) 1552-1596 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NAPOLIAN 1881 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NASH Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NAULLS (1881 (Essex ,London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NAUTLE (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NAYLOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NAZY 1821 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEAGLE (Gypsies Passing Through) NEAL (Gypsies Passing Through) NEALE/NIEL/NEIL 1675-1891 (int ) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEDBY (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEILE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) NELMES 1840 (Aust) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NELSON Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NEVIL 1719 (Gypsies Passing Through) NEW 1819 (Gypsies Passing Through) NEWBERRY/NEWBURY/NEWBY (Gypsies Passing Through) NEWEL (L) (Born Not Known) (Scotland Census 1861) NEWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NEWHAM 1642 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEWLAND (Surrey, Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEWLANDS ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) NEWLEY 1914 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NEWMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NEWPORT 1959 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 53 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 NEWSOME (Scot) (Census England 1861) (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S.) NEWTON 1612-1891 (int) (England) NEYN compare with NANY 1540-1553 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NIAREN 1740 (Scotland, Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NICE (Gypsies Passing Through) NICHOLS/NICHOLSON /NICHOLAS 1554-present (England,Wales) ( Durham NICKLESS (Gypsies Passing Through) NIEL (see NEALE) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NIEMEYER (Gypsies Passing Through) NILTON? (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NITHERCLIF 1713 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) NIXON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NOAKES (Gypsies Passing Through) NOBBS (Gypsies Passing Through) NOBLE (Buckinghamshire, Berkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NOBLE 1610-1792 (Northamptonshire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller ) NOCK (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NODLE 1729 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NOLAN/ NOLAND James 1744 (Gypsies Passing Through) NORIS ( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) NORMAN (St Clement –Cornwall (1851 Census) 1891-1924 (Sussex) NORMANDY 1711 (Gypsies Passing Through) NORRIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851-1861) NORRIS 1776 (Scotland, Ire) (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) NORTH 1752 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NORTHAM (Wales) (Valley Stream) NORTHAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) NORTHERN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) NORTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society NOTTERWOOD 1677 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NOVICE (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NOX 1962 (Midlands) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NOYES 1897 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) NUNN (S) (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) NUNNERSLEY (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) NUTON, 1772 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) NYE Catherine 1756 (Gypsies Passing Through) O’CONNOR/CONNOR 1834-present (England, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) O’DELL ( see OADLEY) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) O’DONAGHUE 1963-1972 (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) O’DRISCOLL 1972 (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) O’NEILL 1850-present (Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Westmoreland) O’RILEY 1963-1972 (Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OADBY 1891 (Surrey (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OADLEY.ODELL/HOADLEY 1739-PRESENT (England ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OAKLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OATS 1913 (compare COATES) (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) O'BRIEN born Ireland Place: Dudley WOR -Staffordshire 1861 Census) OCCLEY 1577 (Gypsies Passing Through) ODAM 1881census (Middlesex) ODDY (Gypsies Passing Through) ODELY (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 54 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ODOGERTY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) O'DONNELL (Gypsies Passing Through) OFFLEY 1836 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OGDEN, 1756-(Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) OGILVIE 1768-1860 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OHMY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OKEEFE (Gypsies Passing Through) OLDEN 1881 (Chesshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OLIVE (Wales Census 1861) OLIVER (born Cornwall-Truro), 1830 -1891(1861 Census Place: Liskeard -Cornwall) (Eng) OMBLER (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) O'NEAL(Gypsies Passing Through) O'NEILL ( Birth Place Ireland) Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) ONGLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) ONRDED 1808 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ORCHARD 1825 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ORD (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ORGAN (Wales) Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ORME Ann 1694 (Gypsies Passing Through) ORRER 1907 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ORTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OSBESTONE, 1779- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) OSBORN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OSBORNE (Eng,Wales) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OSCROFT (Gypsies Passing Through) OSMAN 1617 (Gypsies Passing Through) OSMUND 1776-1774 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OSSER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OTHEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) OUZOUF (Channel Islands 1881 Census) OVENDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) OVERTON, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) OVERY 1920 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OWEN(S)/HOWEN 1778-1881 (England, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) OXELEY 1580 (Gypsies Passing Through) OXPRING 1585 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PABLIO 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PACHEN 1762(Gypsies Passing Through) PACKMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PADDOCK 1719 (Gypsies Passing Through) PADDON (Gypsies Passing Through) PADEN (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) PADMORE (see PODMORE) PAGE 1720 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PAGGETT 1772 (Poor House Records) PAIN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PAINTER 1615 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PAISH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PAL (Gypsies Passing Through) PALCHETT 1891 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PALE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PALE 1827 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PALGRAVE 1619 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 55 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 PALLENDEN 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PALLENT (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PALMER 1605-1968 (int) (England, Ireland,USA.) Ref Journal of the Romany and TFHS) PAMPHIN 1691 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PANNELL Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PANTLING 1687 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARAMORE 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARDOE (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARFITT (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARK 1807-1891 (compare PARKER) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARKER 1592 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PARKINSON 1616 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARLER (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARNELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PARR 1698 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARRATT/ PARROTT (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PARSLEY 1766 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARSLOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PARSONS 1833 Jersey (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PARTHRIDGE/PARTRIDGE (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PARTINGTON (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARTLAND 1873 (Gloucestershire ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PARTRIDGE (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PATEMAN (Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) PATFIELD 1835 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PATHFORD 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PATIENCE (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PATON 1691 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PATRICK, 1683- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) PATTER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841) PATTERSON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) PATTERSON/PATTINSON/ PATTISON 1765-1935(int) (England) PAUL (Channel Island 1881 Census) PAULO/PAULS? (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PAWLET 1680 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PAWLEY, 1691 (Gypsies Passing Through) PAYNE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PE(E)DLE 1714 (Gypsies Passing Through) PEACH 1800 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) PEACOCK, 1758 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) PEAKMAN (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEAKS (Norfolk) (1851 Census) PEAL 1564 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEARCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEARCE/PIERCE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEARSE (Census Place St. Columb Minor- Cornwall 1841 Census) PEARSON 1721-1906 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEARSON Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEBODY 1848 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PECK 1633 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEDGLEY/PIDGLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 56 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 PEDLEY 1714 Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEEK 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEERPOINT 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) PEET/PEAT 1844-1891 (London,Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEETERSON 1713 (Gypsies Passing Through) PEGG 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEGLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEGRAM (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PEIRSON 1696 (Gypsies Passing Through) PELHAM, (Gypsies Passing Through) PELL (Gypsies Passing Through) PELLEN Peter(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PENDLETON (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PENFOLD/PINFOLD 1800 –present (England, USA, (Gypsies Passing Through) PENFORD 1878 (Gypsies Passing Through) PENGELLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PENLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PENN 1891 (Surrey) (Gypsies Passing Through) PENNELL (Gypsies Passing Through) PENNISTON 1687 23 Oct (Gypsies Passing Through) PENNOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PENNY (Gypsies Passing Through) PEOVER 1881 (Chesshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PERCAGO 1881 (Huntingdonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PERCIVAL (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PERDUE/PURDUE (Kent 1889 PERFECT (Kent) (Gypsies Passing Through) PERFITT/PARFITT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PERKINS1817 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PERKS 1939 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PERRETT (Gypsies Passing Through) PERRIE 1635 (Gypsies Passing Through) PERRIN 1606 (Gypsies Passing Through) PERRING Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PERROT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PERRY 1690 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PERSE 1730 (Gypsies Passing Through) PETCH 1671 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PETER 1697 (Gypsies Passing Through) PETERS 1564 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PETERSEN (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PETMAN 1666 (Gypsies Passing Through) PETO 1881 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PETRIE (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) PETRONELLA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PETROVNA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PETTIEREW (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) PETTIGROVE (Gypsies Passing Through) PETTYT/PETTIT 1567-1881(int) (Suffolk,Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PETULENGRO (SMITH)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PEW 1773 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PHARO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 57 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 PHEBIS 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through) PHILBY 1881 (Huntingdonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PHILIP(S) 1605-1956 (int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PHILLIPS (Gypsies Passing Through) PHILPOTT Mary Ann(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PHIPPS 1817 (Gypsies Passing Through) PHOENIX 1820 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PHYSICK 1699 (Gypsies Passing Through) PICKARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PICKEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PICKERING 1794 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PICKETT, Ire,Eng (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PICKLES (no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PIDCOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PIDGEON 191201918 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PIDGLEY/PITCHLEY Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller PIERCE/PEARCE 1696 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PIERPOINT 1722 (Gypsies Passing Through) PIGGOT 1692 (Gypsies Passing Through) PIKE 1718 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PIKEY 1891-1894 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PILCHER 1891(Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PILKINGTON 1891 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PINCH 1745 (Gypsies Passing Through) PINDER 1720-1925 (Derbyshire,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PINFALL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PINFOLD (see PENFOLD)Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald PINK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PINKERTON 1724 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PINKNEY 1627 (Durham,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PINNIGER 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PIPER 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PITCHER Place: (St Austell –Cornwall (1851 Census)Kent,Norfolk) PITCHFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PITCHLEY (see PIDGLEY) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PITMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) PLANT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PLENDERLEITH (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) PLOWRIGHT (Gypsies Passing Through) PLUMB (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PLUMM 1719 (Gypsies Passing Through) PLUMMER (Gypsies Passing Through) PLUNKETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PLYM 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through) PLYMPTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POCKET 1942 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POCOCK (Berkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) PODALAZE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PODMORE/PADMORE 1719 POGUE 1972 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POLITO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POLL 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POLLARD Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 58 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 POLLENSEN 1881 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POLLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) POND 1806 (Gypsies Passing Through) PONTIN 1826 (Gypsies Passing Through) PONTING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PONTINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POOLE 1726 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POPE (Gypsies Passing Through) POPLETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POPPLE(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POPWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PORCH 1726 (Gypsies Passing Through) PORTER 1676 Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PORTEUS 1717 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PORTINGALL 1602 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PORTINGTON 1596 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POTTER (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) POTTER (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) POTTER Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POTTS 1851 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POULING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POUNDS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POWELL/POOLE 1589 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) POWERS 1960 (Monmouthshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) POWLEY (Norfolk) (1861 Census England) PRATT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRATTLEY 1881 (Worcestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PREECE 1891 (Herefordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PREESWELL 1853 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ( PRENTICE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRENTICE (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) PRESCOTT 1881 (Staffordshire) (see Robert Dawson ARITF) PRESNELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRESSICK/PRESSUCK 1673 (Gypsies Passing Through) PREST 1761 (Gypsies Passing Through) PRESTAGE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRESTON (Bedfordshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) PRICE 1587-present (int) (England, Ireland, Wales,USA) (Gypsies Passing Through) PRICHETT 1780 (Gypsies Passing Through) PRIDE (Ireland) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRIESTLEY 1587 (Yorkshire) PRIESTMAN 1705 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) PRIMLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRING Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRINT 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PRINTER Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) PRITCHARD 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PROBERTS/ PROBETS 1784, Ashbury, Berkshire (Gypsies Passing Through) PROCTER 1650-1891(int) (England, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PROSSER 1881 (Monmouthshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PROUDLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PRYOR 1618 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 59 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 PULLEIN/PULLEN 1641-1891(int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PULLINGER 1851 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PULLMAN 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PURCHASE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PURCHELL/PURCELL (Ire) 1764 (Gypsies Passing Through) PURDIE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) PURDY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) PURNELL 1826 (Somerset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) PURTON 1794 (Gypsies Passing Through) PURVASS 1726 (Gypsies Passing Through) PUSSER 1743 (Gypsies Passing Through) PYE (Bawdeswell Norfolk 1861 Census) PYMAN 1891 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) QUAGLIANI (Italy) (England Census 1861) QUARTERMAINE 1631 (Gypsies Passing Through) QUENNER ( Scotland Census 1871) QUENTIN/QUINTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) QUICK (England, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) QUILLIGAN 1900-present (Derbyshire, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) QUINELL 1967-1969 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) QUINLAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) QUINN ( Ire)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) QUINTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) QUINTRELL (Census Cornwall 1841) RADFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAFFE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAFFERTY 1881-1930 (Wales,Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RAFFIN (Bawdeswell Norfolk 1861 Census) RAGA, 1746 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RAINBOW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAINFORD, 1725Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RAINS 1975 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RAMES 1753 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RAMP (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAMPTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAMSAY (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) RAMSAY 1760 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RAMSEY 1741 (Gypsies Passing Through) RANDALL 1610 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RANELS (Born Ireland) (Scotland Census 1861) RANEY (1861 Census UK) RANKINE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) RANSLEY/RAMSLEY 1861-1940 (Aust, England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RANSOME (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAPER 1891 (Durham) (Gypsies Passing Through) RAPLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RASPBERRY 1880-1953 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RATCLIFFE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RATTEN, 1729 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RAW (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAWLINGS/RAWLINS/ROLLINGS 1740 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family) RAWLINSON, 1780- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RAWSON 1594-1891 (int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 60 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 RAY(E) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAYNOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RAZATY 1823 (Gypsies Passing Through) READ/REED/REID (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) READER 1851-1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) READING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) READING (Oxfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RECOS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) REDDING, 1744/5- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) REDE/BATEMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) REDFE(A)RN 1891 (Yorkshire ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) REDPATH 1800 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) REDWORTH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) REED 1824 (Gypsies Passing Through) REES /REESE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) REEVES (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) REGLESS/RAGLASS (census UK) REID (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) REID BURKE( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871)1871 REID/REED/READ 1748-1871 (England Wales) RELPH 1734 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RENDFEILD 1649 (Gypsies Passing Through) RENTON 1881 (Essex,London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RENWICK, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) REPLEY (Census UK) RESTORICK/RESTRICK (Jersey) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller REUBEN/REWBREY 1700-1759 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) REVELL REYNOLDS 1703 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RHODES 1678-95 (int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RIBBERN 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RICE (born England) ( Scotland Census 1851) RICE, 1787 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RICHARDS, 1737(Eng,Ire) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RICHARDSON 1644-(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RICHER (Gypsies Passing Through) RICHES(Gypsies Passing Through) RICHFORD (London) 1891 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RICHMOND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RICKETTS 1743 (Gypsies Passing Through) RICKMAN (Hampshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RIDDELL/RIDDLE (Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RIDDICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RIDDLE (Census 1861 UK) RIDG(E)WAY James 1726 RIDGEWELL (Gypsies Passing Through) RIDGLEY RIDING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RIDLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RIED (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) RIGHO Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) RILETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RILEY ( Birth Place Not Stated) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) RILEY (see RYLES) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 61 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 RILEY born Ireland (Census Place: Dudley WOR -Staffordshire 1861 Census) RILLETT 1881 (Lincolnshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RINGHAM (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RINGROSE 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RIPLEY ( 1841 Census) (Gypsies Passing Through) RIPPINGTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RISBRIDGER 1733 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROACH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROAKE 1676 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROBARDSON 1724 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROBATS 1820 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROBERDS, 1751 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ROBERSON 1818 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROBERTS 1528 (Eng, Wales (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROBERTSON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) ROBERTSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROBERTSON 1690-1972 (int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROBEY ROBINS/ROBBINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROBINSON 1602,Eng,Scot (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROCHESTER 1754 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROCK 184101866 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RODDA (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RODGER( born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1871) RODGERS 1769 (Gypsies Passing Through) RODWELL Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROE, 1732 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ROEBUCK 1730 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROEL 1719 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROFE /ROFF 1784 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROGERS 1725-1841 (England, Wales) (Gypsies Passing Through) ROGERSON 1933 (Wales, England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROLAND/ ROLLAND(Gypsies Passing Through) ROLF, (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROLF/ROLPH 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROLFE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROLLINGS (see RAWLINGS)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller )Society) ROLLINS (Gypsies Passing Through) ROLLINSON (Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) ROLLS 1708 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROLPH, 1747/8 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ROMAINES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROMANA/ROMNEY 1567-1623 (int) Shrophshire, Suffolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROMANT 1623 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROONEY 1851-present (England, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROOTHAM 1891 (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROPER (Gypsies Passing Through) ROPHE 1699 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROSE 1724 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROSEIGH 1955 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSELANDS 1881 (MNT) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSS (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861)  Page 62 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 ROSSAR-MESCRO ( see HEARN Thomas) ( 1851 Census) ROSSEAU/ ROSAIRE /ROSHIER/ ROSS/ ,ROSER,1500’s,(France, Cornwall, Kent,Sussex,Scot,Yks) ROSSER/ROSSITER See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSSI 1891 (Sussex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSSITER/ROSTER/ROSSER 1830-1920 (Aust, England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSTAGINA (Hampshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROSTRON 1891 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROUSE (Gypsies Passing Through) ROUSSEL (Channell Island 1881 Census) ROUTE 1628 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROWDNEY 1767 (Gypsies Passing Through) ROWE (1723) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROWEL(S)/ /ROLLS 1814-1898 (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) ROWELL (Gypsies Passing Through) ROWKINS (Gypsies Passing Through) ROWLAND 1549 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROWLES (1814) (Gypsies Passing Through) ROWLEY John(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) ROY, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) ROYLE/ROYAL 1891 )(Eng,Wales)See Robert Dawson ARITF) RUDD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RUFFELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RUIGHT (Gypsies Passing Through) RUMBLE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RUMBOLD 1781 (Gypsies Passing Through) RUNDLE 1765 (Probus -Cornwall 1851 Census) (Scot 1851 Census) RUPERT(Gypsies Passing Through) RUPELL (Eng) (England Census 1861) RUSH 1891 (Norfolk) See Robert Dawson ARITF) RUSS Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s) RUSSELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RUST (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society RUTHERFORD (Eng,Scot)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RUTHVEN/RIVENS 1772-1860 (Scot, England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) RUTLEDGE, 1634/5- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) RUTTER (Hampshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) RYAN 1807-1970 (int) The Scottish Border, England, Ireland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) RYE 1898-present (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) RYE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RYLANCE (Gypsies Passing Through) RYLE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) RYLES/RILEY/ROYAL 1852-1970 (int) (Wales, Ireland, England) See Dawson ARITF) SABEY (Bedfordshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SABIN (Gypsies Passing Through) SADLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SAGE 1764 (Gypsies Passing Through) SAGEMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) SALES (Gypsies Passing Through) SALISBURY 1716 (Gypsies Passing Through) SALMON 1848 (Derbyshire,Ireland) See (Gypsies Passing Through) SAMPSON (Gypsies Passing Through) SAMUEL 1734 (Gypsies Passing Through) SAMWELL (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 63 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SANDAM 1671 (Wiltshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SANDERSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SANDFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SANDFORTH SARGENT (Scotland 1841Census) SANDS 1749 (Gypsies Passing Through) SANDS/SANDYS 1848-1851 (Norfolk,Sussex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SANGER (Eng)(England Census 1861 (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S) SAPPLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SARGENT (Gypsies Passing Through) SARGOOD 1740 (Gypsies Passing Through) SAUNDERS/SANDERS 1625-1925 (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SAVAGE /SAVIDGE 1524 (born Somerset-Ilminster 1861 Census Place: Ilminster -Somerset) SAWLE (Probus -Cornwall (1851 Census) SAWLEY 1649 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SAWYER 1857-1881 (Kent,Sussex) (Gypsies Passing Through) SAXB(E)Y John 1633 (Gypsies Passing Through) SAXON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SAYER(S) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SCAMMELL 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SCAMP 1599 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SCARRETT/SKARRETT/SHEFRETT/SCARLET/SKERRY (Aust, Eng) (DAWSON) SCEVA 1734 (Gypsies Passing Through) SCHOL Redruth-Cornwall (Census) SCHOLES Place: St George -Lancashire (Census 1861) SCHOOLING 1891 (Essex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SCOFIELD 1648(Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) SCOREY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SCOTT 1583 (Eng,Ire) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SCULLY (Gypsies Passing Through) SCULTHORPE (Gypsies Passing Through) SCUTT SEAGER 1881 (Kent) Robert Dawson ARITF) SEALES 1891 (Yorkshire) Robert Dawson ARITF) SEAMAN 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through) SEARD (Gypsies Passing Through) SEARLE (Worcestershire) (Gypsies Passing Through) SEARS (Gypsies Passing Through) SEATON 1661 (Gypsies Passing Through) SEBIRE (Place: Guernsey -Channel Islands Census 1861) SEDGWICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SEED (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) SEERS (Gypsies Passing Through) SEEVENS 1670 (Gypsies Passing Through) SEGAR (Gypsies Passing Through) SELBY/SEALBY 1673-1891 (England/Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SELDON 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SELLARS (Gypsies Passing Through) SELMES Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SENIOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SETAN, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SEVELLTH 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SEVERN (Worcestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 64 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SEVERS 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SEVIL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SEWARD 1811 (Gypsies Passing Through) SEWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SEXTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHACKLEFORD 1822 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHADDOCK, 1792- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SHADLOCK 1851 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHANKS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHANLEY 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHANNARD 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHAPCOTT 1975 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHARLOCKS 1784 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHARLOT (see CHARLOTTE) 1823 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHARMAN1808 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SHARP/SHARPE 1766 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHARPLES ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Birth Place Ireland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) SHARPLIN (Hertfordshire,London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHARROCK 1727 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHARWOOD (SHERWOOD) SHAUL (Gypsies Passing Through) SHAW 1567-present (Scot,England, Ireland,) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHAWGER 1899 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHAWYER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHAYLOR 1794 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHEA, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SHEARING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHEEN Family 1796 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHEEPWASH 1760-1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHEFFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHELDON 1688 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHELLETO (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHELLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) SHELTON (Gypsies Passing Through) SHENTON 1564 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHEPHARD 1688 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHERLEY 1767 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHERLOCK 1738 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHERMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHERNSTONE, 1702/3- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SHERRARD/SHERRED/SHERWOOD/STERRARD 1822-1911(Eng) (Dawson) SHERRED/SHERRARD (Gypsies Passing Through) SHERRETT 1706-1885 (Aust,England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHERRETT 1706-1885 (Aust,England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHERRIDAN 1960 –present) (England, Ireland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHERRIFF 1706(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHERWIN (Gypsies Passing Through) SHERWOOD (see SHERRARD see GREEN) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHEVLIN /SHEVLAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHIELDS (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1891) SHINDALE (Gypsies Passing Through) SHIPLEY 1736 (Buckinghamshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHIPMAN 1790 Richard(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 65 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SHIPP (Gypsies Passing Through) SHIPTON (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHIRES 1638 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHIRLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) SHIRRAS (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) SHOEBRIDGE (Gypsies Passing Through) SHOESMITH (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SHORT 1758 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHRUBB 1876 (Gypsies Passing Through) SHRUBSALL (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SHUKER 1786 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SIBLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SIL(L)COCK/SILLICOTT 1661 (Sussex) (Gypsies Passing Through) SILK 1763 (Gypsies Passing Through) SILVERWOOD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SILVESTER (England Census 1861) SIMMS 1767-1807 (Derbyshire,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SIMONS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SIMPKINS (Gypsies Passing Through) SIMPSON 1592-1915 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SINCLAIR (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) SINCLAIR (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SINES/SYNES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SINFIELD 1815 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SINGLETON 1600 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SINNOTT (Gypsies Passing Through) SIRR/SKURR 1724/1729 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SINSON (Eng) (England Cenus 1861) SISSONS 1791 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SIVERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SIVIER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SIVITER (Middlesex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SIVON Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SKEET(S) (see KEET) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SKELTON 1772 (Gypsies Passing Through) SKERRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SKETE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SKIDMORE (London) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SKINNER (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) SKINNER (Cambridgshire) (Gypsies Passing Through) SLACK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SLATER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SLAYMAKER (Gypsies Passing Through) SLEDDIN 1676 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SLENDER 1851 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SLIM/SLINN 1881 (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SLOANE, 1794 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SLOPER (Oxfordshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SLY 1727 (Gypsies Passing Through) SMALL 1797 (Eng,Wales)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SMALLBONE Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s SMALLEY 1572-1676 See Robert Dawson ARITF) SMALLMAN 1881 (Herefordshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 66 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SMALLWOOD 1589-1851 (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SMART 1763 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SMEDLEY (Gypsies Passing Through) SMEETH (Gypsies Passing Through) SMITH 1625-present (Aust, England, Scotland, Ireland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SMITHERS/ SMYTHER 1739 (Gypsies Passing Through) SMYTH(ES) 1583 (Gypsies Passing Through) SNATH(E) (Gypsies Passing Through) SNEAD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SNEATH, 1704 (Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) SNEDDON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) SNELL, 1693 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SNELLER 1802 (Gypsies Passing Through) SNELLING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SNOOK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SNOW 1982 (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SODEN/SODER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SOLOMON 1781 (Gypsies Passing Through) SOMERVILLE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) SOMMERFIELD (Gypsies Passing Through) SOPE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SOPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SORRELL (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SORWELL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SOUTH (Cambridgeshire See Robert Dawson ARITF) SOUTHAM (Lostwithiel Cornwall) 1841Census) SOUTHERN/SOUTHAM 1834-1871 (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SOUTHWOOD 1891 (London) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SOUTON 1819 (Gypsies Passing Through) SOWDEN 1720 (Yorkshire) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SOWERBY 1881 (Cumberland) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SPARK (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) SPARKS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPARROW (Gypsies Passing Through) SPAULEY 1592 Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) SPECKE 1699 (Gypsies Passing Through) SPENCER 1623 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPENT 1734 (Gypsies Passing Through) SPICE 1841 (Census) (Gypsies Passing Through) SPICER 1838 (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) SPIERS 1881 (Sussex) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SPILLARD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPILLING (Gypsies Passing Through) SPINKS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPOONER (Census Place: Hillington -Norfolk Census 1861) SPRADBROW (Ref Perry McIntyre NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875) SPRAGG/SPRAGE,SPRIGG 1843 (Derbyshire) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SPRAGUE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPRINGATE 1881 (Sussex) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) SPRINGHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPRINGTHORPE, 1695/6- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SPUGNALL 1881 (Kent) (Surrey) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SPURRETT (Oxfordshire) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 67 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SPURRETT Bella(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SPYBEG, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SQUELCH 1741 (Gypsies Passing Through) SQUIBB 1861(Gypsies Passing Through) SQUIRE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SQUIRES 1659-present(int) (England) (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) STACEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STAFF (no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STAFFORD 1779 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STAGG (Somerset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STAJTE, (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) STALK Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STAMMERS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STANBRIDGE 1688 (Gypsies Passing Through) STANDING 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STANDLEY 1574 (Poole, Dorset England ) Ref Romanygenes) STANFORD 1694 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STANIFORTH 1680-1921 (int) (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STANLEY 1594-present (England, Holland,USA) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STANLICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STANTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STAPELLS 1741 (Northamptonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STAPLEFORD 1780 (Gypsies Passing Through) STAPLES 1815 (Gypsies Passing Through) STAPLETON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STARSMORE 1881 (Bedfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STAVELEY 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEAD 1632-1743 (int) (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEADMAN/STEEDMAN 1881 (Lincolnshire/Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEAL 1714 (Gypsies Passing Through) STEED (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STEEL (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) STEEL(E) 1743-Present (int) (Derbyshire,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEER(E) (Gypsies Passing Through) STEGGALL (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEMP 1714 (Gypsies Passing Through) STENNING (S)(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STENTIFORD 1881 (Devon) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEPHENS/STEVENS 1722-present (England,Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEPHENSON 1744-1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STEPHNEY Elias(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STEPTO 1788 (Gypsies Passing Through) STERE 1721/2 (Gypsies Passing Through) STERIO Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STERLING (see STIRLING ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STERRARD (see SHERRARD) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STERRY (Gypsies Passing Through) STETTERN Place: (St Austell -Cornwall (1851 Census) STEVENS/STEPHENS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STEVENSON (Born Scotland) (Scotland Census 1861) STEWARD 1731(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STEWART (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) STEWART/STUART 1597-1841present (England, Scotland,Wales,USA)  Page 68 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 STICKLEY/STICKLES 1957-1968 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STILL 1720 (Gypsies Passing Through) STIRLING/STERLING 1714-1967 (England,Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STIRLIO Gypsies in Britain” Author Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, published late 1930s STOBBINS 1744 (Gypsies Passing Through), STOCK(S) 1851-1891 (Gypsies Passing Through), STOCKER (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STODDERN St Austell –Cornwall (1861 Census) STOKE(S) 1841-1971 (England, Ireland,USA) STOKEL 1721 (Gypsies Passing Through), STOLLARD 1732 (Gypsies Passing Through), STONE Robert(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STONES (Gypsies Passing Through), STONFIELD (Yorkshire-Dewsbury 1861 Census) STOOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STOPPORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STORDENN (Census Place: Penzance -Cornwall(1841-1851Census) STORER 1841 (England) (Gypsies Passing Through), STOREY, 1744 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) STORK 1881 (Huntingdonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STORMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STOWES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STRAGGON1764- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) STRAND 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STRANGE 1623-1670 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through), STRANWICK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STRATFORD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STRATTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) STREET (Gypsies Passing Through), STREETER 1881 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STRIDE 1698 (Gypsies Passing Through), STRINGER 1733(Gypsies Passing Through), STRODE (Gypsies Passing Through), STRONG (See STRANGE (Gypsies Passing Through), STROUD (Gypsies Passing Through), STRUDWICK 1891 (Norfolk) (Gypsies Passing Through), STUART/STEWART (Scot) (1841-1851 Census Scotland) STUBBS 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STUBLEY (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) STURGESS 1729 (Gypsies Passing Through), STURMAN (Place: Forncett -Norfolk (Census 1861) STYLES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SUCKLING (Gypsies Passing Through), SUET (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SUGAR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SULLIVAN 1834-1902 (Eng,Ire (Gypsies Passing Through), SUMMERFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SUMMERS (Norfolk) (Gypsies Passing Through), SUTHERLAND (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) SUTHERLAND 1742 (Gypsies Passing Through), SUTTON 1677-1736 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SWAINE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SWALE(S) 1679 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society)  Page 69 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 SWALLOW 1721 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SWAN (Born England) (Scotland Census 1891) SWAN(N) 1726(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SWARBRICK 1881 (Lancashire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWEATMAN 1881 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWEEP 1779 (Gypsies Passing Through), SWIFT (Gypsies Passing Through), SWINDELL 1683 (Gypsies Passing Through), SWINDON 1682 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWINEY 1881 (Devonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWINGHOOD, 1791 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SWITCHBACK 1891 (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWORD 1759 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) SWYNARD 1700 (Gypsies Passing Through), SYKES, 1750/51 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SYLLS, 1655 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) SYLVESTER 1580 (Yorkshire) (Gypsies Passing Through), SYMES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) SYMONDS 1730 (Gypsies Passing Through), SYMS 1694 (Gypsies Passing Through), SYNES/SINES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TADMARTON (Gypsies Passing Through), TAGG 1827 (Gypsies Passing Through), TAIT (FAA) 1762-1839 (Scottish Borders, England, (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TALBIE 1638 (Gypsies Passing Through), TALLY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TAMLIN Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TAMS (See TOMS) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TAMSETT 1881 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TANDY 1875 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TANN 1859-1983 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TANNER 1643 (Gypsies Passing Through), TANSER (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TANSEY/TANZEY 1806 (Gypsies Passing Through), TAPLIN 1909 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TAPSELL/TAPSILL/TOPSEEL/TAPSALL (Eng) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller) TARLING TASKER 1891 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TASSELL (Eng) (1851 Census) TATE/TAIT (Gypsies Passing Through), TAYLER 1734 (Gypsies Passing Through), TAYLOR 1570-present (int) (Scotland, Aust, England, Wales) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TAYNE (Ref Gypsies Passing Through) TEALE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TEAT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TEETH/TOOTH 1891-1908 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TELLING (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TEMPEST 1630 (Gypsies Passing Through), TEMPLE 1953 (Cambridgeshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TEMPLEMAN (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TENANT 1725 (Gypsies Passing Through), TENDELL (Gypsies Passing Through), TENNY (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 70 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 TERRY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TESTO (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TETLEY 1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THANIEL 1791 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THATCHER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THEAKSTONE 1697 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THOM(P)SON 1588-1933 (England, Scotland (1841),Wales) THOMAS 1567-1979 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THOMASON 1748 (Gypsies Passing Through), THOMPSETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THOMSON (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) THORLEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THORN(E) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THORNGATE (Gypsies Passing Through) THORNHAM ( no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THORNTON,. 1755-(Scot,Eng) (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) THORPE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THREADGIRL 1744 (Gypsies Passing Through) THRESALL (Huntingdonshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) THRIFT 1625 (Gypsies Passing Through) THROSSALL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) THROWGOOD (Gypsies Passing Through) THURSTON(E) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TIBBLES (Hertfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TICE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TICKNER (Gypsies Passing Through) TIDY 1718 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TIERNEY 1819 (Gypsies Passing Through) TILEY (Raglan Wales 1856) TILLER (Gypsies Passing Through) TIMMINS (Gypsies Passing Through) TIPPER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TIPPUCK (1719 England) TITCUM 1624 (Gypsies Passing Through) TITMUS (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOBIN (Middlesex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOBUTT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TOBY (see DOBY (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TODD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TODMAN (Gypsies Passing Through) TOKELY (Essex) TOMKINS 1572 (Gypsies Passing Through) TOMLIN 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOMLINSON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TOMPSETT 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOMPSON, 1580 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) TOMS/TAMS 1998 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TONKS (Canada, London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOOGOOD 1791 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TOOLEY (no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOON, 1750 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) TOOP (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TOOTH (see TEETH) (See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 71 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 TOPSEEL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TORRANCE (Gypsies Passing Through) TORRIE (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOTTEN 1891 (Durham) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOVEY 1715 (Gypsies Passing Through) TOW 1848 -1861 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOWERS 1673 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) TOWLER 1817-1819 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOWNEND (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TOWNER 1624-1891 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOWNSEND/TOWNEND 1775-present (Aust, England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TOWNSLEY (1624,1841-present( Scotland, Yorkshire) TRAINER/TRAYNOR 1820 (Derbyshire, Ire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRANTER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TRAYLER 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TREEBY 1979 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TREES (@ for WOOD) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRELINING 1881 (Northumberland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TREVILLER 1881 (Cornwall) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRIBE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TRICKETT (no info) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRIGGER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TRIGHTREM 1726 (Gypsies Passing Through) TRIMMINS 1873 (Gloucestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRINDER (Gypsies Passing Through) TROTTER 1623 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TROUTT 1822 (Somerset) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TRUEMAN 1680 (Gypsies Passing Through) TRULOVE 1774 (Gypsies Passing Through) TSCHURON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TUBB (Gypsies Passing Through) TUCK 1847 (Gypsies Passing Through) TUGBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TUGG 1742 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TULET (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TULIP 1707(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TUNE 1891 )Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TUNNYCLIFFE 1729 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TURGUS 1625 (Gypsies Passing Through) TURNBULL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TURNER 1674 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TURPIN/TUPEN 1751-1914 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TURTON 1851 -1891 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TURVIE 1612 (Gypsies Passing Through) TURVILLE 1850 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TUTTLE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TWADDLE 1741 (Scotland,Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TWEEDY 1676 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TWIGDON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TWINLEY Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TWINN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TWYRIE 1830 (Gypsies Passing Through) TYAR (Russia) St George -Lancashire (Census 1861)  Page 72 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 TYLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) TYRANT 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TYRES 1610 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) TYRREL (Gypsies Passing Through) TYSTAFF Ellen 1829 (UK) UMBRELLA 1881 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) UNDERWOOD Richard 1681 (Midlands) (Gypsies Passing Through) UPRIGHT (Gypsies Passing Through) UPTON (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) URIE (Scotland 1841) (Gypsies Passing Through) USHER 1764 (Gypsies Passing Through) USSER 1765-1883 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) USTOW (Gypsies Passing Through) UZZLE 1765 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VALDER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VALENTINE/VALLENTYNE 1577-1875 (England, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VALLIS/ VALLES (see WALLACE) (Gypsies Passing Through) VAN, 1705 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) VANIS (@ for HERON) ( compare VINES (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VANNER Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VAREY 1702 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VARLEY 1788 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VAUGHAN 1734 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VAUS 1796 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VELLAM, 1835 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) VENESS/VENUS Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VERNON 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VETI 1891 (London) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VIBART (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VICKERS/VIGORS 1909-1922 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VIGORS (see VICKERS) VIGOT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VINALL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VINCEING 1791 (Gypsies Passing Through) VINCENT Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VINDEN Lily(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VINER ( Scotland Census 1871) VINES ( compare VANIS) 1714-1800 (Leicestershire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VINEY Mary(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) VINNING (Gypsies Passing Through) VINSON 1810 (Staffordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VIRGO (compare BERGO) 1908-1909 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) VITON (Gypsies Passing Through) VIVIAN (Gypsies Passing Through) VIZE 1784 (Gypsies Passing Through) VOLKES,. 1757 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) VOLLER George 1899 19 Jan George & Sarah (Traveller) , St Peter, Croydon, Surrey WADBROOK (Gypsies Passing Through) WADDELL (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1841-1851) WADDINGTON 1891 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WADE,. 1782- Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WADHAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WADKENS 1730 (Gypsies Passing Through)  Page 73 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 WAGNER 1851 (Renfrewshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WAIN (Oxfordshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WAINWRIGHT (@ for BOSWELL) 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WAITE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WAKELEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WAKER 1726 (Gypsies Passing Through) WALDRON(Gypsies Passing Through) WALKER 1567-1965 (England, Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WALL, 1673- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WALLACE/VALLIS/WALLIS) 1791-1854 (England,Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WALLEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WALLER /WHALEY 1571-1923 (England) (Ref Journal of the Romany and ) WALLETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WALLIS 1754 (Gypsies Passing Through) WALLSER Thomas(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WALMSLEY 1809-1812 (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WALPOLE 1891 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WALSH, 1733 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WALTER(S) 1881 (Kent) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WALTON (see WHATTON) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WANN 1541 (Scotland) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WARD 1717-present (Aust, Ireland, England ) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WARDEN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WARDLE 1881 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WARDMAN 1743 (Yorkshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WARE Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WAREHAM Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WARN 1913 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WARNER (Hinkley -Leicestershire ,1861 Census) -1891 WARREN Family (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller 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(Staffodshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WEEKS (1594 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WEEKS 1594-1836 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WEELE (1881 Census UK) WELAN (1881 Census UK) WELBURN (1881 Census UK) WELCH/WALSH/WELSH 1851-present (Aust,England,Ireland,Wales) (Dawson) WELDEN, 1814 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WELDING 1758(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WELLBELOVED 1720 (Gypsies Passing Through) WELLDONE 1758 (Gypsies Passing Through) WELLER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WELLES (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WELLING 1851 (Devon) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WELLINGTON (Gypsies Passing Through) WELLS 1750-1935 (England,USA) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WELSH (Cornwall County Gaol (Census Place Bodmin 1841) WENAN Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WENBORN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller 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Durham) (Census 1861) WHITHAM 1840 (Derbyshire) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WHITLOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WHITMORE/WHITMOOR (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WHITTENDON/WHITTINGTON 1891 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WHITTLE 1772 (England) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WHYTE (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) WHYTE (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WIBER (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WICKENDEN 1891 (Essex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WICKENS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WICKHAM/WICKRAM 1891-1913 (Sussex) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WICKING 1772 (Gypsies Passing Through) WICKRAM (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WICKS (Gypsies Passing Through) WIGG 1745 (Gypsies Passing Through) WIGGETT 1782 (Norfolk) (See Robert Dawson ARITF) WIGGINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILCHER (Gypsies Passing Through) WILCOX (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILD(E) 1726-1913 (England) (Gypsies Passing Through) WILDASH (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILDESPIN(E) (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILKIE 1800 (Scotland) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILKINS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILKINSON (no info) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILKS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILL (born Scotland) ( Scotland Census 1851) WILLCOX (Gypsies Passing Through) WILLENDEN 1891 (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILLENS (see WILLIAMS) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILLETT 1778 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILLEY, 1648- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WILLIAMS/WILLENS 1645-1979 (England, Scotland, Wales,USA WILLIAMSON ( Birth Place Ireland) ( Birth Place Scotland) ( Scource Mary McKay Genealogy) WILLIAMSON family (England,Scotland_ WILLIS 1680 (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILLOUGHBY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILLOUGHTON 1891 (London) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILLS Benjamin(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WILLSHIRE (Gypsies Passing Through) WILMSHURST Sussex-Buxted ,1861 Census) WILSHAW/WILLSHIRE/WILTSHIRE 1801-present (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WILSON 1599-1990, (Aust, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, USA) WILSON-STAFFENDEN (Gypsies Passing Through) WILTON (no info) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WIMPENNY 1891 (Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WINDER(S) Family(Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WINDMILE 1881 (Gloucestershire) See Robert Dawson ARITF)  Page 76 The Traveller – Tinker – Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain Updated 8/03/2010 WINETT (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WINFIELD (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WINGE Elizabeth 1693 (Gypsies Passing Through) WINGROVE (Kent) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WINMAN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WINMAN 1910 (Surrey) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WINSON 1891 (Sussex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WINTER 1623-present (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WINTERBURN (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WINTERFIELD, 1768- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WIPER 1780 (Scotland, Yorkshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WITCHER 1911 (Hampshire) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WITNEY (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WITTANCE, 1748/9- (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WITTS (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WIVERMORE (Essex) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WOADELEY 1611 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOLMER, (Census-1851 (Ref Gypsy Index Leicestershire County Council) WOMBWELL(Eng( (England Census 1861) (Ref Journal of the R.T.F.H.S) WOMSLEY 1764 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOOD 1581-present (Aust, England, Ireland, Wales) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WOODALL (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WOODASON (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODBRIDGE (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODCOCK (Ref Journal of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society) WOODCOCK 1881 (England) See Robert Dawson ARITF) WOODDESS 1588 Lincolnshire Parish Records Gypsies Passing Through) WOODERS 1635 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODHALL 1709 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODHATCH 1642 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODLEY Jane 1649 (Gypsies Passing Through) WOODS Abraham (first family in Wales).

Note from admin 31/03/2013 Abraham Woods is now understood to be correctly known as Abram Wood. The branch is Kale (and some say that this branch was from Spain rather then the English Romany branch which came into England via France in the late 1500's).

Many thanks to Lucy Wood for providing this information. You can read more about him at valleystream.co.uk/romany-wood.htm

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New DNA map reveals Irish are more genetically diverse than previously believed with Viking and Norman ancestry

It has long been assumed that the Irish have Celtic blood - but geneticists now say the truth is much more complicated

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The Irish are much more genetically diverse than previously believed and have Viking and Norman ancestry - just like the English, according to new research.

A comprehensive DNA map of the people of the Emerald Isle has for the first time revealed lasting contributions from British, Scandinavian and French invasions.

An estimated 80 million people worldwide claim Irish descent - almost half of them Americans who regard it as their main ethnicity.

It has long been assumed this means the blood in their veins is Celtic - but geneticists now say the truth is much more complicated.

Their latest research has uncovered a previously hidden DNA landscape, shaped through geography and historical migrations.

The findings, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, could also shed fresh light on genetic diseases - and lead to better treatments.

In both the UK and Ireland, for example, prevalence of multiple sclerosis increases the further north you go.

And compared with the rest of Europe, the Irish have higher rates of cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, and galactosemia, a serious metabolic disorder that prevents the breakdown of sugars in dairy, legumes and organ meats.

In the 10,000 years since Stone Age cavemen first arrived, the Irish have established distinct cultural regions. But previous studies had identified no clear genetic groups within the population.

Now researchers have found 23 distinct genetic clusters, separated by geography by comparing mutations from almost 1,000 Irish genomes with over 6,000 from Britain and mainland Europe.

These are most distinct in western Ireland, but less pronounced in the east, where historical migrations have erased the genetic variations.

When the researchers took into account genetic contributions from people with British ancestry, a clear trend arose, showing this input dropping off in populations to the west.

They also detected genes from Europe and calculated the timing of the historical migrations of the Norse-Vikings and the Anglo-Normans to Ireland, yielding dates consistent with historical records.

The study paints a new and more complex picture of the genetic landscape of Ireland, and demonstrates the signatures that historical migrations have left on the modern Irish genome.

The findings also show a distinct genetic structure can exist even within small, isolated populations.

The Trinity College Dublin team suggest this newly revealed structure should be taken into account in future studies that use the Irish population to identify the genetics underlying various traits and diseases.

Geneticist Dr Ross Byrne, of Trinity College Dublin, said: “This subtle genetic structure within such a small country has implications for medical genetic association studies.

“As it stands current corrections for population structure in study designs may not adequately account for this within country variation, which may potentially lead to false positive results emerging.

“We feel this will be particularly important in the analysis of rare variants as these are expected to be less uniformly distributed throughout a country.

“We intend to explore this further and identify if this structure should be accounted for in corrections.”

Being able to link genetic information to geographic origins helps medical researchers design studies that consider how and why a person, or a group of people, may be affected by certain illnesses.

It is not good enough just to know you are Irish. It could be useful to know your DNA has been influenced by a unique genetic subgroup from one part of Ulster.

Considering that something like 20 to 30 per cent of North Americans can claim Irish ancestry, this could have huge repercussions across the world.

If you need an organ transplant or skin graft, it could make a difference in how well your body accepts the tissue.

The more genetically different you are from the donor, the shorter the life of the transplant. Rejections are lower when the recipient’s genome and the donor’s have fewer differences.

Co author Professor Russell McLaughlin added: “The long and complex history of population dynamics in Ireland has left an indelible mark on the genomes of modern inhabitants of the island.

“We have shown that, using only genetic data, we can accurately reconstruct elements of this past and demonstrate a striking correlation between geographical provenance and genetic affinity.

“Understanding this fine-grained population structure is crucially important for ongoing and future studies of rare genetic variation in health and disease.”

The study follows research by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Genealogical Society of Ireland reported in December that found genetic evidence of Viking settlement for the first time.

That team found there were at least 10 distinct genetic clusters across the country, roughly aligned with the ancient provinces or kingdoms of Ireland.

They collected DNA samples from 196 Irish people whose eight great-grandparents were born within 31 miles (50km) of each other in Ireland.

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• Sally Ann Lynch 1 , 2 ,
• Ellen Crushell 2 , 3 ,
• Deborah M Lambert 1 ,
• Niall Byrne 1 ,
• Kathleen Gorman 2 , 4 ,
• Mary D King 2 , 4 ,
• Andrew Green 2 ,
• Siobhan O’Sullivan 5 ,
• Fiona Browne 6 ,
• Joanne Hughes 3 ,
• Ina Knerr 3 ,
• Ahmad A Monavari 3 ,
• Melanie Cotter 7 ,
• Vivienne P M McConnell 8 ,
• Bronwyn Kerr 9 ,
• Simon A Jones 9 ,
• Catriona Keenan 10 ,
• Nuala Murphy 11 ,
• Declan Cody 12 ,
• Sean Ennis 2 ,
• Jackie Turner 1 ,
• Alan D Irvine 6 , 13 ,
• Jillian Casey 2
• 1 National Rare Disease Office , Mater Misericordiae University Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 2 Academic Centre on Rare Diseases , University College Dublin , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 3 National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders , Temple Street Children’s University Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 4 Department of Neurology , Temple Street Children’s University Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 5 Department of Paediatrics , Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children , Belfast , UK
• 6 Department of Paediatric Dermatology , Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 7 Department of Paediatric Haematology , Temple Street Children’s University Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 8 Northern Ireland Regional Genetics Service, Belfast City Hospital , Belfast Health and Social Care Trust , Belfast , UK
• 9 Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine , Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St Mary’s Hospital , Manchester , UK
• 10 National Coagulation Laboratory, Central Pathology Laboratory , St. James’s Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 11 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology , Temple Street Children’s University Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 12 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology , Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• 13 Department of Clinical Medicine , Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Republic of Ireland
• Correspondence to Dr Sally Ann Lynch, National Rare Disease Office, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin D07 R2WY, Republic of Ireland; sally.lynch{at}ucd.ie

Background Irish Travellers are an endogamous, nomadic, ethnic minority population mostly resident on the island of Ireland with smaller populations in Europe and the USA. High levels of consanguinity result in many rare autosomal recessive disorders. Due to founder effects and endogamy, most recessive disorders are caused by specific homozygous mutations unique to this population. Key clinicians and scientists with experience in managing rare disorders seen in this population have developed a de facto advisory service on differential diagnoses to consider when faced with specific clinical scenarios.

Objective(s) To catalogue all known inherited disorders found in the Irish Traveller population.

Methods We performed detailed literature and database searches to identify relevant publications and the disease mutations of known genetic disorders found in Irish Travellers.

Results We identified 104 genetic disorders: 90 inherited in an autosomal recessive manner; 13 autosomal dominant and one a recurring chromosomal duplication.

Conclusion We have collated our experience of inherited disorders found in the Irish Traveller population to make it publically available through this publication to facilitate a targeted genetic approach to diagnostics in this ethnic group.

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Introduction

Irish Travellers are an ethnically Irish endogamous nomadic population, whose origins date back many centuries. The island of Ireland encompasses two countries with separate healthcare systems: the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (a constituent unit of the United Kingdom). According to the Irish census 2016, 1 there were 30 987 Irish Travellers in the Republic of Ireland accounting for just over half of one per cent (0.66%) of the total population. A further ~1800 (0.07% population) live in Northern Ireland. 2 A 2010 All-Ireland study estimated a higher figure of ~40 000 Irish travellers living on the island of Ireland, 3 arguing that the discrepancy in numbers was due to reluctance, in some, to self-identify as a Traveller. Numbers of Travellers vary as the nomadic Travellers frequently migrate across Europe even on a yearly basis. It is estimated that 58 000 Gypsies, including a proportion who are Irish Travellers, live in mainland UK 4 and there are small populations of Irish Travellers in mainland Europe and in the USA.

Irish Travellers practise consanguinity with cousin marriage rates approximating 71% of unions; first cousin 39%, first cousin once removed 11% and second cousin 21%. 5 These high levels of consanguinity have resulted in many well-recognised autosomal recessive disorders among this population, the overwhelming majority being due to homozygous mutations. While many Irish Traveller disorders and their mutations are known to individual Irish-based clinicians, most are not published or, if published, the ethnicity is not explicit. 6–20 Clinicians who are less familiar with this population have no resource to facilitate forming a differential diagnosis or in targeting genetic testing. We have therefore collated these data on known genetic disorders found among this population to facilitate rapid and affordable diagnostic testing. The majority of the data were collated from clinicians and scientists working on the island of Ireland, but some information was sought through clinicians and scientists managing Irish Traveller families living in the UK, New Zealand, Denmark and USA.

In this study, we present, for the first time, a comprehensive catalogue of the currently known disorders among the Traveller population, their causative mutations (where known) including several novel or previously unreported mutations, relevant publications and disease codes (Orphacodes, OMIM and ICD10 coding). We also present information on clustering of groups of disorders due to consanguinity within geographical regions or due to linkage disequilibrium. This information is presented to facilitate cost-saving, targeted and timely diagnosis in individuals from the Irish Traveller population.

Molecular methods

SNP data were used to perform a comparison of the homozygosity levels in the Irish Traveller population relative to the general Irish population and the publicly available Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) dataset, which comprises 938 individuals from 51 different populations divided into seven continental groups: Africa, America, Central and South Asia, East Asia, Europe, Middle East and Oceania. The average total combined length of runs of  homozygosity (ROH) in the autosomal genome was calculated per population and expressed as a percentage of the total autosomal genome length. ROH of at least 1 Mb were identified using PLINK. 21 Only the autosomal chromosomes were considered in the analysis (644 285 SNPs).

Disease ascertainment

A literature search was conducted using the search terms ‘Irish Traveller’ and ‘Irish consanguineous’ in the PubMed database. We also searched for manuscripts on known Traveller disorders and searched the names of key clinicians who have published data on families from this population. For those publications reporting patients as ‘Irish consanguineous’ but not specifying ‘Irish Traveller’, we emailed corresponding authors of several manuscripts to verify ethnicity. This resulted in the identification of 78 manuscripts of interest. De novo genetic or chromosomal disorders were not included in this review.

Where publications were not available on specific disorders known to occur frequently in Irish Travellers, testing laboratories were contacted to confirm the specific Irish Traveller mutations identified (no personal identifiers of patients were sought or revealed). Databases at the Department of Genetics (Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin) were searched using keywords such as known Traveller disorders and names of families known to authors and the relevant mutation data were extracted.

When a molecular diagnosis of a phenotype was confirmed, standard Orphanet or OMIM nomenclature for the entity was given. Where no diagnosis was confirmed, phenotypic features were listed. Orphacodes, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10 (ICD10) and OMIM codes were assigned where possible.

Information on disease frequency and distribution was reviewed and was categorised as to occurrence in the Traveller population: (1) Private (P), occurring only in the members of a nuclear family; (2) Clan (C), present only in one extended family; and (3) Founder (F), a mutation found throughout the Traveller population.

Mutation data were retrieved from the literature and other online resources and systematically reviewed and assembled into the reference resource. The information provided for each mutation includes gene, DNA change, predicted protein change, mutation type and mutation effect. Mutation nomenclature was verified or revised using Mutalyzer 22 and/or VariantValidator 23 to conform to Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) format.

Homozygosity levels

As an indication of homozygosity levels, SNP data were used to calculate the percentage of the autosomal genome present within a ROH >1 Mb in the Irish Traveller population compared with the general Irish population and 51 populations from the HGDP dataset. As expected, the highest percentage of genome homozygosity, and hence lowest genetic diversity, was observed in populations from the Americas and Oceania, which most likely reflects small founder population sizes in these groups ( figure 1 ). Conversely, the lowest levels of genome homozygosity, and hence the highest levels of genetic diversity, were observed in the African populations. Out of the 53 populations analysed, the Irish Travellers were found to have the fifth highest levels of homozygosity at ~8%. This is four times the levels of homozygosity observed in the general Irish population (~2%). The higher levels of homozygosity are likely reflective of the high rates of consanguinity and endogamy among the Irish Travellers, which is aligned with previous studies. 24 25 Of note, Irish Travellers were found to have the highest levels of homozygosity among the 11 European populations analysed in this study.

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SNP-based comparison of the percentage of the autosomal genome located in a run of homozygosity (ROH) >1 Mb. Populations analysed include the Irish Travellers, the general Irish population and 51 populations from the HGDP dataset. The average level of homozygosity in the Irish Traveller population was found to be 8%, compared with 2% in the general Irish population.

Catalogue of genetic disorders

In total, we identified 100 distinct genetic disorders. In 4 of 100 disorders, there was an additional dominant phenotype segregating in heterozygotes giving a total of 104 (online  supplementary table 1 ). Of the 104 listed disorders, 51 have previously been published in Irish Traveller families. 6–20 26–65 Ninety of 104 are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner; 13 are autosomal dominant and one is a recurring chromosomal duplication. Four of the 13 autosomal dominant disorders presented with a homozygous phenotype, but the more common dominant phenotype was also shown to segregate within these families. The dominant and recessive phenotypes for these four diseases (adipose overgrowth (OMIM 151860 and 608507), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (OMIM 115197 and 615396), phaeochromocytoma–paraganglioma susceptibility ( SDHD ; OMIM 168000 and 252011) and atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (OMIM 235400)) are listed as separate rows, but with the same row numbers in online supplementary table 1 . One disorder, a recurrent chromosomal duplication of 17q12, has been included as it was found in two likely unrelated families, one of whom had coexisting primary ciliary dyskinaesia (OMIM 614679) due to CCDC103 mutations. 32

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The phenotypes of these diseases cover the full spectrum of inherited disease. Notably, however, 39 (37.5%) are associated with congenital anomalies, 39 (37.5%) with intellectual disability, 34 (32.7%) with a metabolic disorder, 33 (31.7%) with a neurological phenotype (aside from intellectual disability) and 7 (6.7%) are associated with cancer susceptibility. In terms of age of presentation, 27 (26%) are associated with early childhood death, 16 (15.4%) are adult onset conditions and 5 (4.8%) are associated with fetal loss.

Of the 100 unique disorders, 31 are founder diseases prevalent throughout the Traveller population (F), 26 are present only in one Clan (C) and 47 are private diseases limited to one nuclear family (P).

Most of the disorders have been identified in Travellers living on the island of Ireland. However, a number have only been observed in Great Britain (adipose overgrowth, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, Hurler-Scheie syndrome and Sanfilippo syndrome) and in US-based Irish Travellers (bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria).

The molecular basis is known for 91 of 104 disorders. The genetic basis of 12 autosomal recessive disorders remains unclear. One microcephaly phenotype has a linkage peak at chromosome 11q13 with no further delineation of a gene. Four of the 12 uncharacterised recessive disorders have had negative findings in exome sequencing studies performed by our research group: (1) autosomal recessive microcephaly; (2) subglottic stenosis; (3) central hypotonia, neonatal respiratory failure and seizures; and (4) neonatal seizures, hypotonia, microcephaly and optic nerve hypoplasia. The other 8 of the 12 uncharacterised disorders have not had exome sequencing as the families were seen many years ago. The molecular basis of one of the 13 dominant disorders, familial hyperinsulinism (OMIM 256450), is unclear.

Although most of the mutations we describe are novel, five are prevalent in the general European population: (1) Friedreich ataxia (OMIM 229300) GAA expansion, (2) spinal muscular atrophy (OMIM 253300) deletion exons 7 and 8, (3) cystic fibrosis (OMIM 219700) delta F508, (4) medium-chain acyl-coA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD) (OMIM 201450) c.985A>G and (5) hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 1a (OMIM 118220) common duplication.

Most publications did not determine a carrier frequency for the described Traveller disorders. Three conditions, which are recognised in the general Irish population, are seen at different frequencies in the Traveller population, as described in table 1 . It has been possible to derive carrier frequencies for these conditions as they are prevalent throughout the Traveller population, as well as having an early onset, classic phenotype and requiring close medical monitoring.

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Published carrier frequencies of Irish population-wide recessive conditions

Despite the high levels of consanguinity, endogamy and founder mutations, we observed allelic heterogeneity for the following disorders: primary ciliary dyskinaesia (five mutations) 16 32 63 (OMIM 612649), Fanconi anaemia (three mutations) (OMIM 609054), Leigh syndrome (three mutations) (OMIM 256000), 46,XY sex reversal (two mutations) (OMIM 400044), cystic fibrosis (two mutations) (OMIM 219700), hyperinsulinism (two mutations) (OMIM 147670), hyperprolinaemia type 1 (two mutations) (OMIM 239500), Leber congenital amaurosis (two mutations) (OMIM 604393), long QT syndrome (two mutations) (OMIM 192500), mucopolysaccharidosis type I (two mutations) (OMIM 607014) and phenylketonuria (two mutations) (OMIM 261600). Allelic heterogeneity for rare recessive disorders has also been reported in the consanguineous Saudi population, 66 serving as a reminder that one cannot always assume allelic homogeneity in endogamous populations.

We have noted multiple inherited disorders clustering within the same pedigree, as shown in table 2 . The clustering of disorders follows a specific geographic pattern due to marriage patterns between clans. While the authors are aware of specific towns, counties or family names that are associated with these clusters of disorders, these cannot be published for confidentiality reasons.

Geographic clustering of disorders

The co-occurrence of disorders in linkage disequilibrium has occurred on three occasions, as shown in table 3 .

Disorders in linkage disequilibrium

We noted the presence of multiple recessive phenotypes in the same individual due to random segregation. In a whole exome sequencing study involving 30 families, 21% of individuals were affected by two recessive disorders while 5% were affected by three recessive disorders. 25 Examples include congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH; OMIM 201910) and infantile liver failure –multisystem involvement (ILFS1; OMIM 615438); hyperprolinaemia and natural killer cell disease with glucocorticoid deficiency with DNA repair defect (OMIM 609981); and glycogen storage disorder Type 3 (OMIM 232400) with primary ciliary dyskinaesia (PCD; OMIM 612649). Molecular techniques have been helpful in resolving questions of whether individuals with a new presentation have a ‘phenotypic expansion‘of a single disorder or expression of multiple disorders.

Like others, we have observed a severe recessive phenotype in patients with homozygosity for some dominant mutations 67 68 – these are listed in table 4 . We have not yet observed recessive phenotypes for the other dominant disorders; (hereditary breast cancer(OMIM 600185), Brugada syndrome (OMIM 601144), neither form of familial hyperinsulinism (OMIM 147670) and (OMIM 256450); hereditary dehydrated stomocytosis (OMIM 194380); hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 1a (OMIM 118220); neither form of long QT (OMIM 192500); porencephaly (OMIM 175780).

Homozygosity for dominant disorders

Irish clinicians have long recognised many of the common Traveller disorders. Indeed, in the Republic of Ireland, all Traveller babies are fed on soya milk pending urgent exclusion of galactosaemia by expedited newborn screening. Some diseases typically considered to be rare occur more commonly than the 5 in 10 000 European threshold for rare diseases and should therefore be considered common for this population. There is a paucity of epidemiological studies, but published incidences of galactosaemia, Hurler syndrome and I-cell disease confirm the common occurrence of these disorders. 41–43 47 50

The origins of Irish Travellers are uncertain as their nomadic lifestyle and illiteracy have resulted in a paucity of written record. It is clear that their origins predate 19th-century Irish famine times, some suggesting as early as the 5th century and others possibly the 15th century. 24 69 Traditionally, the Irish Traveller population have married young and had large families. Routine pedigree analysis by the clinical genetics team show that individual Travellers may have up to 80 first cousins and family history information may be unavailable if the families are not in communication with each other. Irish Travellers have the highest infant mortality rate in Europe and average life expectancy remains low. 3 70 A 2002 study in the west of Ireland revealed that 12% of parents had one or more stillbirths, 8% had suffered the death of a child younger than 1 year of age and 6% had suffered the death of a child older than 1 year. 71 Overall, 9% of parents had a child with a genetic metabolic disorder and 5% a child with a disability. 71 Although poverty and adverse living conditions are known contributors to shorter life span and neonatal death in any population, the nature of these 104 disorders are no doubt also contributory factors to these health statistics.

Autosomal recessive disorders are common due to the small size of this population and the culture of consanguinity (approximately 71% vs general population rates of less than 1%). 5 72 Traveller nomadic culture involves frequent travel to the UK and mainland Europe. There are thought to be approximately 5000 Irish Travellers living in the UK. Some have moved to the USA and live between South Carolina and Texas. 73 Interestingly, the mutation causing Cohen syndrome in Travellers from the west of Ireland has also been identified in Travellers living in South Carolina (Roger Stephenson personal communication). However, while galactosaemia, I-cell disease and Hurler disease do have an increased frequency compared with the general Irish population, the presence of mutations commonly recognised in the non-Traveller Irish population does not necessarily mean a high frequency of these diseases in Travellers. For example, cystic fibrosis (CF) has the highest incidence in Ireland (carrier frequency 1 in 19) and delta F508 is the most common Irish CF mutation. 74 However, Irish Travellers have a low, undetermined incidence of CF and the delta F508 mutation was found in just one nuclear Traveller family. We were unable to determine the carrier frequency of CF in the Traveller population as there are only two nuclear families affected with this condition.

While the incidence of metabolic disorders has been shown to be higher, 72 no prospective study on the risk of a Traveller couple having a child with a recessive disorder has been performed nor was this study able to present a compendium of carrier frequencies in the Traveller population. Although we were able to demonstrate high levels of homozygosity in analysis of Traveller samples obtained for diagnostic studies, we recognise sequencing a population sample would give accurate data on carrier frequency of all mutations. Ethical issues have prevented these studies to date. However, as ‘Irish Traveller’ has recently gained official recognition as an ethnicity in the Republic of Ireland, we hope that this will allow for further work in this area to develop these data. 75

Irish Travellers operate a clan-like structure. Therefore, while the population might number 30 000–40 000, they typically only marry within a much smaller clan of ~200–400. This likely explains the geographical and familial clustering of genetic disorders observed in this study. The more common disorders occur in many clans suggesting the relevant genetic mutation is older. Rarer disorders are clan specific, suggesting a more recent founder mutation. This is evidenced by the fact that when multiple mutations occur within the same gene in an endogamous population, one might expect evidence of compound heterozygosity. However, we have only seen this in one nuclear family with Alpers syndrome, whereas in five disorders (cystic fibrosis, Fanconi anaemia ( FANCA ), hyperprolinaemia ( PRODH ), Leber congenital amaurosis ( AIPL1 ) and primary ciliary dyskinaesia ( RSPH4A )), only homozygous mutations have been seen, emphasising the close consanguinity.

Our experience with exome sequencing in this population has demonstrated large numbers of shared homozygous regions, which can impede isolation of the causal variant due to increased numbers of potential recessive candidate variants. Similarly, using exomes from population-matched controls can be very powerful to exclude benign variants that are common in a population. This approach has a caveat: there is an assumption that the ‘controls’ are not related to the family under investigation. The Traveller culture places great importance on privacy and pedigree analysis may not reveal the nature of disorders within the wider family. It is therefore important to be mindful of cryptic relatedness when using population-matched exomes for variant filtering. Furthermore, with population-matched controls in endogamous communities, disease-causing variants may be present in the heterozygous state at a frequency higher than anticipated, for example, greater than the traditional 1% cut-off. Thus, there is a need for caution and leniency when implementing frequency thresholds for filtering of variants using population-matched controls from endogamous populations. Despite the technical challenges, our group has identified the molecular basis of 11 disorders in the Traveller population using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology.

We have observed phenotypic variability both within and between families with a particular disorder. Possible explanations include (1) variable expressivity: the same mutation can result in slightly different phenotypes (genetic background: polygenic, oligogenic or digenic modification), although this is less common for recessive disorders and/or (2) multiple recessive disorders: some patients may have a second recessive disorder that distorts the overall phenotype. We and others have found that where siblings differ greatly in their phenotype, it is important to consider the presence of a second recessive disorder and to not assume it is a ‘phenotypic expansion’. 25 76

We have observed allelic heterogeneity for a number of disorders among the Travellers, including primary ciliary dyskinaesia, hyperprolinaemia and Fanconi anaemia. The identification of five different mutations in four disease genes causing primary ciliary dyskinaesia may suggest a survival advantage among carriers of PCD mutations, though this remains to be explored.

Our findings and those of other groups support the need for specific diagnostic processes and customised population-tailored approaches to carrier testing in families from consanguineous populations. An NGS Traveller panel could incorporate 79 of the 87 known mutations. This could facilitate rapid, cost-effective diagnoses to improve outcomes in many disorders (severe combined immunodeficiency due to ADA deficiency (OMIM 102700), glutaric aciduria type 1, Hurler syndrome, infantile liver failure–multisystem involvement, MCAD, methylmalonic aciduria, primary ciliary dyskinaesia, natural killer cell disease with glucocorticoid deficiency with DNA repair defect). Specific testing would still be required for those disorders resulting from large deletions or duplications, which currently cannot be included in an NGS panel. Recognition of coinheritance of diseases by either random segregation within geographic regions or linkage disequilibrium would allow earlier and more accurate detection and treatment of the second condition.

Clearly, it is technically feasible to develop carrier testing. However, factors such as poor health literacy, high mobility and a reluctance to seek medical advice will influence the development of a carrier testing programme in this population. 77 The nature of any programme would have to tailor-fit Traveller circumstances and beliefs—many adhere to strict Roman Catholic beliefs and termination of pregnancy is against cultural norms. The culture of privacy among many Traveller families means information about diagnoses often remain within the nuclear family. The wider family (aunts/uncles of affected children) may be unaware of their increased risk. Indeed, clinicians may be conscious of risks of specific inherited disorders in families but cannot break patient confidentiality. Knowledge of disease clustering is important as targeted carrier testing can be offered to those at risk. In practice, many Travellers, if offered carrier testing, will request testing only for disorders that they are aware occur within their family. Further work in this area must involve the Traveller population and representative organisatons to explore the acceptability of population-wide screening before development of any such programme. In the meantime, an NGS panel would allow carrier testing for those who specifically request carrier testing.

Our catalogue should alert clinicians to rare disorders that occur in Irish Travellers. While 51 have previously been published in Irish Traveller families, of the 91 where the genetic basis is known, 44 rare mutations listed in this manuscript have not previously been published in association with this population. A de facto advisory service has been listed on Orphanet 78 and a webpage of this resource is in the early planning stages.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Gary Brown, Gianpiero Cavalleri, Judith Conroy, Elisa de Franco, Sian Ellard, Colette Hand, Ieuan Hughes, Melanie Perry, Niamh O’Connell, Simon Ramsden, Stephen Robertson, Karen Stals, Rieko Tadokoro Cuccaro and Christopher Walsh for confirming ethnicity and/or mutation. We thank Aoife Long for help with formatting.

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Contributors We declare that all coauthors have contributed to this work. SAL, DML, EC, NB, ADI and JC have contributed to the design of the article and data acquisition. KG, MDK, SOS, JH, FB, MC, VPMMC, JT, AAM, IK, AG, DC, NM, BK, SAJ, CK and SE contributed to the acquisition of the molecular data and the family structure. All authors have approved the manuscript.

Competing interests None declared.

Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

Data sharing statement SAL, EC, AG, MDK and ADI are happy to advise clinicians on possible differential diagnoses based on individual phenotypes and demographic details of patients. The Irish Traveller network is available online ( http://www.orpha.net ).

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Anti-Traveller Racism

Sadly, part of Travellers’ daily lives is their experience of racism- denial of their identity, direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. While this does not define Travellers the belief that Travellers are not a separate ethnic group and attempts to stop Travellers being Travellers is the key driver that creates the issues Travellers face in Ireland today, in terms of accommodation, education, employment, health (and mental health).

What is Racism? Racism is a belief that one group of people is superior to another. It accounts for people believing that differences in character or ability are due to someone’s ethnicity. It can manifest itself in both individual and institutional forms. Individual racism is often easier to establish.

Individual Racism At a simple level, individual racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different ethnicity based on the belief that one’s own ethnicity is superior. For individual acts of anti-Traveller racism, examples would be:

• Denying Travellers access to a pub or shop,
• On-line hate-speech,
• Physical or emotional abuse based on someone’s identity
• Traveller children being bullied in schools,
• Travellers not being called for interview for jobs based on their address
• Non-Travellers campaigning against sites being built in their locality

Individual racism can, in theory, be challenged by legal means, for example by the Equal Status Act (see below)

Institutional or Structural Racism Institutional racism is more complex, and often harder to identify and its impact is more far wide-reaching. It requires larger strategies to challenge it and overcome it. This defines racism as:

An institutionalised system of power. It encompasses a web of economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs that systemize and ensure an unequal distribution of privilege, resources and power in favour of the dominant racial group at the expense of other racial groups.

Examples of institutional or structural racism would be where systems or practices are put in place which intentionally or unintentionally ensure that Travellers cannot achieve equality or remain outside the system, which has its benefits directly or indirectly for those who manage the system. Examples of institutional racism are:

• Denial of Traveller ethnicity
• The absence of Traveller culture, in for example, the education system
• Development of laws which criminalise Traveller culture: control of horses act, market trading act, housing miscellaneous provisions (nomadism) act
• Lack of political will to deliver on Traveller accommodation
• Travellers being unable to get jobs due to lack of education opportunities

Institutionalised racism results from policies that dominant groups’ culture as being superior, including paternalistic views that there is a “right” way for people to live, including assimilation policies.

Internalised racism/Internalised Oppression Internalised racism results from the impact of institutional racism whereby members of a minority group, individually and collectively, start to believe and internalise values of racism. It results in negative self-images, low expectations of people themselves but also of their community. Thomas Mc Cann in a presentation at the ITM AGM in 2012 said that “We struggle with this internalised oppression every day of our lives until we liberate ourselves from it.” Click here to read the Presentation in Full (link to Thomas Mc Cann presentation in publications and resources).

Internalised racism results in Travellers turning inward, that the non-Travellers are superior and that racism is acceptable (that those experiencing racism “deserve” it). Internalised oppression /racism has huge impacts on how people view themselves and people’s mental health, which naturally can have a huge impact in how people deal with conflict.

Thomas Mc Cann identifies that “Reducing the impact of internalised racism and oppression results in feeling much better about ourselves, our family and also about our community.”

At the core of anti-Traveller racism is the assumption that nomadism is not a valid way of life. The State response has been to outlaw it and measures taken have been to “assimilate/absorb” Travellers- to stop Travellers being who they are: the dominant powers view Travellers as “less than” settled people, as people who need to become something else (which can easily be defined as cultural genocide)

If anti-Traveller racism views Traveller identity as inferior, the next stage is denial of that identity and the assimilation of Travellers (see diagram). Assimilation is an institutional response to ethnicity denial, which leads to the issues we see today. From this what is often referred to as “Failure in delivery” of accommodation, is in fact, a successful policy of identity denial and anti-Traveller racism.

History of Anti-Traveller Racism Anti-Traveller racism is a huge problem which has its roots in history. Traveller organisations tend to focus our analysis on the Commission on Itinerancy (link to the ITM review of the Commission in Publications & resources section) as the root of all anti-Traveller racism and flawed State response. However, most historians would argue that the divide between Traveller & non-Travellers that goes further back, before the formation of the State. Similar clashes of culture between nomadic and sedentary people can be seen all across the globe.

If you have nomadic people who view land as a collective resource, in shared ownership (“commons”) there always will be conflict once people enclose land, restricting it for personal or family use (which began in the 16th Century, often by force, and is heavily linked with industrialism in the 19th Century).

With the rise of nationalism in the late 19th Century in Ireland and in Europe, defining who “belongs” in a Nation becomes a topic of intense debate. Nationality needed to be “invented”, creating a common bond of people to be united in one country. This process of identifying who the “folk” are for one nation inevitably leaves groups outside who become “others” who are not identified with the emerging nation states. In Ireland, the history of the nation has to be invented, by creating a sense of a unified people, who are linked with the land as farmers, tenants and share an identity based on this. Travellers, who aren’t linked as traditional landowners are always going to be viewed with distrust based on this distinction.

Much of the marginalisation of Travellers from the settled population results from loss of common lands and the fundamental differences in how sedentary and nomadic people view land use. These differences were exacerbated by rapid changes to Irish society in the 1960s including the mechanisation of farming, the cheap availability of plastic and rapid industrialisation, which proved to have huge consequences for Travellers. These changes resulted in the loss of defined roles which not only provided income and status for Travellers within Irish society but also supported nomadism as an expression of identity.

From the 1960s onwards, many Travellers, like many settled people, moved en masse from rural areas to urban centres in search of work in jobs where they lacked skills. Traveller families living in camps in cities and towns were viewed as “problems” which, to use the parlance of the government’s 1960-1963 Commission on Itinerancy, would be solved through “absorption” into Irish society. The policy was to restrict opportunities for nomadism and permanently “settle” Travellers.

State policy focussed not on the needs of Travellers and how best they could be supported to build on their skills to provide for themselves and contribute to society, but on a misguided approach, at best a paternalistic charitable model, at worst a deeply racist one, which viewed a nomadic way of life as an anachronism and provided charity and welfare, not education and jobs.

State policy focussed not on the needs of Travellers and how best they could be supported to build on their skills to provide for themselves and contribute to society, but on a misguided approach, at best a paternalistic charitable model, at worst a deeply racist one, which viewed a nomadic way of life as an anachronism and provided charity and welfare, not education and jobs. This approach that limited expectations for Travellers in education solely to their receiving religious sacraments condemned many Travellers to further dependency on welfare, charity and intergenerational unemployment and propelled some into lives of crime.

This deep-rooted anti-Traveller racism, coupled with the loss of Traveller’s traditional roles from the 1960s onwards (and the fact that Travellers did not have numbers in one area to elect their own representatives) led to assimilation policies to try and “solve the Traveller problem” (link to ITM review of Commission doc). As we can see these failed policies led to two processes which are mutually reinforcing, which Traveller groups can see in continued effect today

Challenging Racism- what can people do? What steps can be taken? For information on how to take an equality case to the Workplace Relations Commission, visit their website or download the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission (IHREC) guide to the equal status act here .

The Irish Traveller Movement legal pack also has steps on how to enforce your rights which can be downloaded from our publication section here (link to key reports part of resources & publications)

The ITM and ENAR Ireland have produced a guide to reporting racism on Facebook which can be downloaded here (link to key reports)

iReport is a reporting system for the people, communities and organisations of Ireland to document racist incidents that are occurring nationwide which is organised by ENAR Ireland. ITM as a member of ENAR encourages Travellers to log all instances of anti-Traveller racism with iReport

Challenging Racism at an institutional level Challenging institutional racism is much more complex as it is based on creating a respect for Traveller culture, recognition of Traveller ethnicity and creating new policies (or undoing old ones) which would build trust between Travellers and non-Travellers, by delivering services that promoted an inclusive, equal society. This work has always been at the core of ITM- Ethnicity recognition (link to Traveller ethnicity page) and building an intercultural society.

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Who is Jordan Bardella, the young face of the French far right?

Europe letter: charismatic frontman of national rally is old wine in new bottle when it comes to immigration.

President of French far-right party National Rally Jordan Bardella has been front and centre in of the party’s European election campaign. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/Getty Images

The French far-right National Rally (NR) party has been running a novel recruitment drive for new members over the last few weeks: sign up and you’ll be sent a signed photograph of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella.

Outside of France Le Pen is well known, having been the leader of the anti-immigration party for more than a decade. Bardella, the 28-year-old who succeeded her as NR president a year and a half ago , probably less so.

Although Le Pen is still seen as calling the shots behind the scenes, Bardella has emerged as a popular fresh face on the political scene. His social media output is full of videos of the politician taking smiling selfies among crowds of supporters.

From a family of Italian descent, he grew up in a rough northern suburb of Paris, joining the far-right party as a teenager. Bardella rose through the ranks and became head of its youth wing, during a period when Le Pen was seeking to detoxify the movement’s image. He was elected to the European Parliament five years ago aged 23, then in late 2022 took over as president of the party.

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Le Pen is still expected to be the party’s candidate for the French presidency in 2027, in what would be her fourth bid for the Élysée Palace . Given that Emmanuel Macron cannot stand for a third consecutive term, and without his centrist coalition having settled on an obvious successor yet, the far right see the vote in less than three years’ time as their moment.

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Bardella has been front and centre of the party’s European election campaign, leading its list in a race where polls give NR a clear lead over Macron’s political group. NR’s strategy has been to capitalise on a sense of dissatisfaction with Macron among the French public. Election leaflets being handed out by party canvassers last week showed a smiling Bardella and Le Pen standing together with a simple message: “Against Macron’s Europe”.

On Wednesday Bardella unveiled the party’s roster of other election candidates during a rally in Perpignan, a southern French city near the Mediterranean coast, a traditional stronghold for NR. Recent controversies over alleged Russian and Chinese influence that have damaged their ideological fellow travellers on the far right, Alternative for Germany (AfD), seem unlikely to dent the French party’s campaign.

National Rally's Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella attending the party's summer meeting in September 2023. Le Pen is expected to be the party’s candidate for the French presidency in 2027. Photograph: Pascal Guyot/Getty Images/AFP

However, closer to home one of the NR candidates, Fabrice Leggeri, the former director of the EU’s border agency Frontex, has been caught up in controversy. A legal case has accused Leggeri of facilitating the pushback of migrant boats in his previous role, claims he has strongly rejected. The party has rowed in behind Leggeri, describing him as a “great servant” of the state who has been targeted by “immigrationist NGOs”.

When it comes to policy and the party’s stance on immigration, Bardella is old wine in a new bottle. Campaign emails sent out to supporters speak of “uncontrolled” migratory chaos “rotting” French daily life. Bardella made the same point during a contribution on the new EU migration pact, the major overhaul of asylum policy that was passed by the parliament last month. During that debate he claimed mass immigration constituted a threat to Europe’s security and identity, calling for the reforms to be opposed as they did not go far enough to the right.

Bruno Cautrès, an academic from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, says Bardella is a big electoral asset for NR as the “young star of French politics”. So far during the campaign the party has promised certain tax exemptions for farmers and lower fuel and energy taxes, as well as strict migration controls. It has described the vote in early June as a fight between “patriot” supporters and “extreme left” opponents.

Bardella has ducked out of a number of early debates and after a press conference last week left without taking questions from journalists. The young politician will try to avoid getting into detailed policy debates, according to Sébastien Maillard of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris. He prefers to stick closely to familiar topics such as migration and the high cost of living, and avoids taking political risks, Maillard says. “He’s become popular because he’s a populist . . . In today’s politics it works.”

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