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In 1821, in Shipston-on-Stour, there was a wedding between Gypsies Anslo(w) Stanley and Trinity Oliver. Two known children of this couple were William, baptised at Hullavington, Wiltshire, on 3rd December 1815 and James, born c1816, who emigrated to America and named Anslow and Trinity as his parents. Prior to their … Continue reading →

At the petty sessions in Bedfordshire in 1853 Solomon Law, a Gypsy, was charged on suspicion of stealing a brown mare, in foal. The prisoner did not appear and was bound over in his own recognizance . . . to appear when called upon. His prison record while on remand … Continue reading →

The Suffolk Quarter Sessions of 1849 recorded the acquittal of a Constine (sic) Gray in a case of larceny, and, if the Bury and Norwich Post’s article of 17th January is to be believed, she was particularly fortunate in escaping a prison sentence: Constine Gray, aged 28, a Gypsy woman, … Continue reading →

in 1907, on 25th July, the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette reported on a case of fortune telling involving a Gypsy named Britannia Manley: Florence Tytherleigh, domestic servant . . . stated that the prisoner called at the house, in the absence of her master and mistress, and tried to sell … Continue reading →

At the Sussex Assizes of January 1882 the Surrey Mirror reported ‘a gang of Gypsies were charged with stealing ten turkeys from nearby Monk’s Hill Farm.’ The article of 14th January confirmed that the turkeys ‘were not locked up, but roosted in some trees . . . the prisoners [were] … Continue reading →