Genealogy Chat

I found this site yesterday almost by chance when I was looking for similar information. I haven't had a good look at it yet but it may be useful to some with travelling ancestors.

romanygenes.webeden.co.uk

Susan. We might be able to help your search if you would be willing to provide some names, dates and places, or anything you know about the family. Sometimes two heads are better than one, and on this site twenty or more heads usually wind up with the answers.

I will understand if your rellies are still living or from the near past. However, if it is great grandma and great grandpa, let's have the details. It will provide exercise for collective brain matter.

I have found baptisms for children born to travellers for someone on GR.
Our only clue was that one of the children had a local town as her birthplace in a later census.
As luck would have it, they'd had a 'batch' Christening with several children in the family in the registers near here, although some had been born in other towns on their travels.

Gwyn

Thankyou for your help , will try your advice , my head is spinning with so many obstacles you would not believe . many thanks for your interest . :-)

Hi Susan, I completed a similar search with lots and lots and lots of help from GR historians in 2009. As part of that search I received this link.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jassie/theatre/index.htm

The link lead me to the occupations I needed and the information that my OHs grandmother was the daughter and granddaughter of equestrienne comedians, or circus clowns.

I too had the problem of missing census records and spent many fruitless hours driving a couple of researchers barmy looking for the marriage between grandma and grandpa. It is a long story and the search ended when OH reconnected with cousins and one of the first comments made was, "you do realize that grandpa never married grandma"!!

Grandpa was actually married when he shipped out to Australia and never returned to UK.

So try the link. It might provide you with some clues or hints to search elsewhere. And most importantly if you manage to find a death certificate don't believe what is on it until you can prove it from another source.

Good luck.

doe's anyone know how to go about finding any records of families that move about regularly namely = TRAVELLERS ,HAWKERS ,FAIRGROUND FAMILIES .E.T.C as they seem to miss some of the Census years , no records of birth , only a marriage and a birth of a child of the marriage . They moved from town to town almost every week , doe's anyone know were i can search please . HELP .