So who are these people we call Travellers? They used to live mostly in caravans or mobile homes in which they travelled all over the country or into England. They have Irish surnames – Ward, Connors, Carty, O'Brien, Cash, Coffey, Furey, MacDonagh, Mohan.
Total 16 surnames. Casey, mentioned in all 8 entries, is in first place, with Cart(h)y (7 out of 8) a close second. Faulkner (with variant forms Faulkiner and Fortner) is mentioned 5 times. Delaney, McDonagh, Sheridan and Sherlock get two mentions each and the remaining 9 names are all one-offs.
Gypsy surnames which occur in Surrey include Cooper, Matthews, Ayres, Smith, Green, Taylor, Williams, Brazil, Shepherd, Beaney, Chapman and Scott among others. The Gypsy Lore Society Collections at Liverpool University may be able to help with researching well-known surnames.
Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.
What is the difference between an Irish Traveller and a Romany Gypsy?
In the UK, it is common in data collections to differentiate between: Gypsies (including English Gypsies, Scottish Gypsies or Travellers, Welsh Gypsies and other Romany people) Irish Travellers (who have specific Irish roots) Roma, understood to be more recent migrants from Central and Eastern Europe.
🥶🥶🎄Travellers descend on Manchester Christmas Markets🎄 🥶🥶
What makes you an Irish Gypsy?
Irish Travelers, also known as “White Gypsies,” are members of a nomadic ethnic group of uncertain origin. Scholars often speculate that they are descended from a race of pre-Celtic minstrels and that their ranks were swelled by displaced farmers during Oliver Cromwell's bloody campaigns of the mid-1600s.
A Gypsy is a member of a race of people who travel from place to place, usually in caravans, rather than living in one place. Some Gypsies object to this name, and prefer to be called Romany.
Article Talk. In Roma communities in North America and some areas of Europe, the rom baro ( lit. 'big man') is the tribal leader. He earns his position through merit, and his decisions ‒ although considered wise ‒ do not have the automatic approval of the community.
Explore famous Gypsy Roma Travellers as role models e.g. Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hoskins, David Essex OBE, Keith Duffy, Shayne Ward, Cher Lloyd, Michael Caine, Joaquín Cortés, Lívia Járóka, José Antonio Reyes, Harri Stojka, Ceija Stojka, Iva Bittová, Pablo Picasso.
- Roma: In Europe, chiefly in the Balkans and in Central-Eastern Europe. - Sinti: In the Northern areas of Western Europe, in France and in Northern Italy.
Farrell (also O'Farrell, Farrall) is a surname of Irish origin. It is the anglicized form of the Gaelic patronym Ó Fearghail. The Farrells were hereditary Chiefs and Princes of Annaly (modern-day County Longford).
Surnames on the list included Boyle, Carney, Carr, Doherty, Horan, Delaney, Gallagher, McGinley, McMahon, McGuinness, Murphy, Nolan, O'Brien, O'Donoghue, Ward and O'Donnell, with staff told “we do not want these guests on our parks." Call handlers were instructed that people using these names were “unwelcome”.
Irish Travellers are of Irish ancestral origin and have no particular genetic ties to European Roma groups, a DNA study has found. The research offers the first estimates of when the community split from the settled Irish population, giving a rare glimpse into their history and heritage.
The term Black Irish was a myth used in the 19th and 20th centuries by Irish-Americans to describe Irish people with dark features, such as having dark hair or dark skin, or both. The myth proposed that these dark featured Irish were the descendants of Spanish sailors shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588.
Irish Travellers are sometimes mistakenly called gypsies. They have no genetic relation with the Roma people. In Ireland Travellers were also commonly known as tinkers, derived from the sound their tools made hitting metal when many Travellers worked as tinsmiths.
Gorger comes from the Romani language gorgio or gadjo, referring to a person who is not an ethnic Romani. Its etymology is obscure. In 19th-century England, a gorger was adopted as a slang term for a “man,” including a “dandy” or “landlord.”
Some of the better known areas of work that Gypsies and Travellers are involved in include seasonal agricultural work, motor trading and tree-felling. Some are employed as academics, teachers and public servants and in this way they add to the local economy.
Although most Gypsies and Travellers see travelling as part of their identity, they can choose to live in different ways including: moving regularly around the country from site to site and being 'on the road' living permanently in caravans or mobile homes, on sites provided by the council, or on private sites.
