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Thread #158710 Message #3757962
Posted By: GUEST
12-Dec-15 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
Subject: RE: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
See the account books for Stirling Castle circa 1467 for a dole of food to two gypsies. See charter dated May 31st. 1439 by Halliday of Hoddam granting a wadser {mortgage} to Carruthers of Mouswald over his lands of Hodholm and that part called Tynclers Lands occupied by the gypsies yeclept Faas, Kennedys, etc. etc. {at a later date in Northumberland and the Borders any band of gypsies were given the generic name Faas, as also in the town of Thornhill, Dumfrieshire, when a band of gypsies arrived the people would say the Kennedys have come.} Read:--- Lucas, Simson, Halliwell, Craig, Eamage, etc. etc.