We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing help and encouragement
  with this project provided by the following people and organizations.

• Clwyd and Baden Roberts - research/information on the Welsh Gypsy Roberts/Wood families
• Teleri Gray - research/information on the Welsh Gypsy families
• Bob Lovell and S Davies - research/information on the Lovells and other Welsh Gypsies
• Myra Roberts - information on the Welsh Gypsy Roberts family
• Dafydd Gates - research/information on the Locks and Boswells
• John Pockett - vardo historian
• Buckland family - vardo
• Long Buckby Library
• Vestry House Museum
• BBC South-East Wales
• BBC Kent
• The Romany Society
• Bethell family - vardo
• Paul Spashett and family - vardo
• Dan and Louise - vardo
• Dan Hughes - Sharnford cameraman

Selected Bibliography

Borrow, G, Lavengro and Wild Wales
Hall, Rev. G, The Gypsy's Parson:  His Experience and Adventures, Sampson Low, Marston, 1915
Jarman, E & AOH, The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood, University of Wales Press, 1991
Roberts, A, Gossiping Guide to Wales
Sampson, A, The Scholar Gypsy, John Murray, 1997
Ward-Jackson, CH & Harvey, DE, The English Gypsy Caravan, David & Charles, 1972
Wood, MF, In the Life of a Romany Gypsy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979
Yates, DE, A Book of Gypsy Folk-Tales, Pheonix House, 1948

Online Resources

• 1901 Census Online
• Ancestry.co.uk
• Family History Online
• Friends, Families & Travellers
• Family Search.org
• FreeBMD
• Im Nin'alu
• NationMaster: Roma and Sinti
• Orlenda, SRZ: Timeline of the Roma
• Patrin Web Journal
• Romany & Traveller Family History Society
• Sareen, J: The Lost Tribes of India
• The Gypsy Lore Society
• The Romany Society
• Suffolk County Council: The Traveller Communities
• University of Leicester: Historical Directories
• University of Manchester: Romani Project

Gypsy Waggon Holidays

• Blaentrothy Holiday Cottages UK, Monmouthshire
• Romany Leisure, Lincolnshire
• Under the Thatch, Ceredigion

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