Died on her 78th birthday: Ruth Chilcott, Almondbury, Huddersfield, 1866
From The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser, 17 March 1866 VISIT OF A GIPSY QUEEN – DEATH IN THE CAMP One of the topics and events which have been exciting attention in the town and...
View ArticleBuried at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire: No. 1 – the Chilcot/ts
On 11 October 1909, the Gypsiologist Robert Scott Macfie went to Flaybrick Cemetery in Birkenhead, Cheshire, to visit the graves of a number of Gypsies who are buried there. They belonged to the...
View ArticleBuried at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire: No. 2 – the Smiths
This is the second of three items on this site about the Gypsy monuments visited by the Gypsiologist Robert Scott Macfie on 11 October 1909 at Flaybrick Cemetery in Birkenhead, Cheshire. He saw this...
View ArticleBuried at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire: No. 3 – Mackenzie Boswell
This is the third of three items on this site about the Gypsy monuments visited by the Gypsiologist Robert Scott Macfie on 11 October 1909 at Flaybrick Cemetery in Birkenhead, Cheshire. He saw this one...
View ArticleDeath of Sylvester Boswell, 1890
From the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Old Series, Vol. II, p191 (1890-1891) DEATH of a well-known English Gypsy Sylvester Boswell (“Westaaros”), famous for his deep Romines (1), died April 8 and...
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