Remember that this list is not complete yet. Some are certainly Romany Gypsy, while others are Irish Tinkers / Travelers as well as some Scottish Travelers. Because no one kept track of which were the Romany lineages, and which were the Irish and Scottish Travelers, who married in to the Romany lineages, today no one really remembers which are the true Roma lineages today. But genetic genealogy is helping to unravel that mystery. The Romany having come from India and Pakistan and migrated to Europe, are clearly geneticly different then their European counter parts. As you see, most are very common surnames, and very difficult to be certain of your Romany or Traveler connection with out a lot of paper trail research and the use of genetic genealogy. Don UK Romany / Traveler surnames Aldridge / Eldridge Alford Allen Arnold Ayers / Eyres Bailey Ball Barnes Barney Barton Beckett Beney / Beeney / Beaney Benham Bentley Birch Blackman Bland Bond Boswell / Boss Bowers Brazil / Brazill Broomfield / Bloomfield Brown Buckland Buckley Bull Burrett Burton Butler Campbell Carter Castle Chapman Chilcott Churin Cole Coleman Collison Coneley Cooper Croucher Davis / Davies Day Deacon Deighton Dekin Dekens Dighton Dimmett Dixon Doe Draper Duckett Dymott Eade Eastwood Edwards Eggerton Elliott Fenner Fisher Fitgerald Frankum / Frankham Gardiner Gatrell Gess Godfrey Gorman Gray Green Gregory Gritt Gamble Hall Harding Harfield Harris Hart Hazard Hawkings Hearn / Hearns / Herrin Hibbs Hicks Hill Hoadley Hodgkins Hodgkinson Holland Holmes Horne Hughes Ingram / Ingraham Isaacs James Jeff / Jeffries Jewell / Joles Jones Keet Kemp Kempster King Ladds Lakey Lamb Lee Lewis Light Lock / Locke Lovell Loveridge Martin Mathews Mersham Miller Mitchell Mott Musto Newman Orchard Palmer Pateman Pearce Penfold / Pinfold Peters Pidgley Pike Pipley Poldalaze? Poles Price Proudley Ripley Roberts Robinson Rolfe Rose Roser Saunders Scamp Scott Searle Shaw Sheen Shelvin Sherred Sherwood Small Smith Stanley Stone Stephens / Stevens Stratton Stubbs Taylor Thorley Turner Virgo Walker Walsh Webb Weldon Wells Wheeler Whitcher White Wigley Willett Willmot Williams Wilsher Wilson Wiltshire Winkel Wood / Woods Worton / Wharton Yates Young ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html