). Chiefly found in Berkshire and Windsor. In Romany, _Vardo
mescro_.
DAVIES.
DICKENS. Half-blood.
DIGHTON. Blackheath.
DRAPER. Hertfordshire.
FINCH.
FULLER. Hardly half-blood, but talk Romany.
GRAY. Essex. In Romany, _Gry_, or horse.
HARE (A). Chiefly in Hampshire.
HAZARD. Half-blood. Windsor.
HERNE. Oxfordshire and London. "Of this name there are," says Borrow
(Romano Lavo-Lil), "two gypsy renderings: (1.) Rosar-mescro or
Ratzie-mescro, that is, _duck_-fellow; the duck being substituted for the
_heron_, for which there is no word in Romany, this being done because
there is a resemblance in the sound of Heron and Herne. (2.)
Balor-engre, or Hairy People, the translator having confounded Herne with
Haaren, Old English for hairs."
HICKS. Half-blood. Berkshire.
HUGHES. Wiltshire.
INGRAHAM (A). Wales and Birmingham, or in the Kalo tem or Black Country.
JAMES. Half-blood.
JENKINS. Wiltshire.
JONES. Half-blood. Headquarters at Battersea, near London.
LEE (A). The same in most respects as the Smiths, but are even more
widely extended. I have met with several of the most decided type of
pure-blooded, old-fashioned gypsies among Lees in America. They are
sometimes among themselves called _purum_, a _lee-k_, from the fancied
resemblance of the words.
LEWIS. Hampshire.
LOCKE. Somerset and Gloucestershire.
LOVEL. Known in Romany as Kamlo, or Kamescro, that is, lover. London,
but are found everywhere.
LOVERIDGE. Travel in Oxfordshire; are in London at Shepherd's Bush.
MARSHALL. As much Scotch as English, especially in Dumfriesshire and
Galloway, in which latter region, in Saint Cuthbert's church-yard, lies
buried the "old man" of the race, who died at the age of one hundred and
seven. In Romany Makkado-tan-engree, that is, Fellows of the Marshes.
Also known as Bungoror, cork-fellows and Chikkenemengree, china or
earthenware (lit. dirt or clay) men, from their cutting corks, and
peddling pottery, or mending china.
MATTHEWS. Half-blood. Surrey.
NORTH.
PETULENGRO, or SMITH. The Romany name Petulengro means Master of the
Horseshoe; that is, Smith. The gypsy who made this list declared that he
had been acquainted with Jasper Petulengro, of Borrow's Lavengro, and
that he died near Norwich about sixty years ago. The Smiths are general
as travelers, but are chiefly to be found in the East of England.
PIKE. Berkshire.
PINFOLD, or PENFOLD
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