Ellie

Female

Victoria

Australia

Profile Information:

What surnames are you interested in researching?
Bache, Dunn, Crockford, Packman, Monk, Mills,
Ashton / Ashdowne, Smith, Hilstead ? Turner, Taylor, Edman, Browning Wiffin / Whiffen, Simpson, Green,
Vass, Stone, Batten, Sweet, Warley, Maggs, May, Barton,
Burke, Birk, Sayers / soars, Fitzgibbon, Holmes, King,
Wright, Worthing, Newcombe
What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?
Surrey, Kent, England, Ireland, Upper Canada, Germany ? NSW & Victoria Australia
What is your level of genealogy knowledge?
Intermediate Family History Researcher
If you are a genealogy expert, what are your specialties?
Australian Research,

Comment Wall:

  • Sherry Hightower

    Sep 10, 2009

  • Geniaus

    Ellie, Please join 170 other Australian genealogists at The Australian Genealogists Group on Genealogy Wise http://www.genealogywise.com/group/australia

    Sep 15, 2009

  • Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal

    no problem, just trying to help!

    Sep 25, 2009

  • Co Ordinator

    Hi Ellie,
    Can you get back to me when you get a chance as you may be able to help me
    Wayne

    Oct 6, 2009

  • Geniaus

    Ellie, Thanks for offering assistance to Australian Group members - much appreciated.

    Oct 8, 2009

  • Kathryn Brannigan Walizer

    There are only two names of trades which have been adopted by English Gypsies as proper names, Cooper and Smith: these names are expressed in the English Gypsy dialect by Vardo-mescro and Petulengro. The first of these renderings is by no means a satisfactory one, as Vardo-mescro means a cartwright, or rather a carter. To speak the truth, it would be next to impossible to render the word 'cooper' into English Gypsy, or indeed into Gypsy of any kind; a cooper, according to the common acceptation of the word, is one who makes pails, tubs, and barrels, but there are no words in Gypsy for such vessels. The Transylvanian Gypsies call a cooper a bedra-kero or pail-maker, but bedra is not Gypsy, but Hungarian, and the English Gypsies might with equal propriety call a cooper a pail-engro. On the whole the English Gypsies did their best when they rendered 'cooper' into their language by the word for 'cartwright.'

    Kathryn Brannigan Walizer

    Oct 27, 2009