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). 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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