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Many Romanichal speak Angloromani, a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English syntax. Romanichal residing in England, Scotland, and Wales are part of the Gypsy (Romani), Roma, and Traveller community. [2] Genetic, cultural and linguistic findings indicate that the Romani people can trace their origins to Northern India. [3] [4] [5]
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Romani), Scottish Lowland Romani and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
The term Gypsies in GRT refers to Romani people belonging to groups that have existed in Britain for centuries, such as English Gypsies (Romanichal) and Kale (Welsh Gypsies). [5] [3] They share a common origin in Roma populations which emigrated from India during the first millennium and arrived in Britain in the early 16th century.
He wrote a number of books including a novel of Romani life, an English–Scottish border history, a sketch of his father and Fitzgerald, and an autobiographical account of his time living with the Romani. Groome was a sub-editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia; joint-editor of the 1897 edition of Chamber's Dictionary of Biography. [3]
He was described as the "King of the Gypsies" in an account of a Romani wedding at Baildon in 1937 between his son Leon Petulengro and Illeana Smith. According to press reports at the time, Xavier Petulengro cut the hands of the couple to mingle their blood, and bound their wrists with a silk cord, as part of the ceremony.
The Boswells were for centuries one of England's largest and most important Gypsy families. The Boswell clan were a large extended family of Travellers, and in old Nottinghamshire dialect the word bos'll was used as a term for Travellers and Roma in general. Hence, many claiming the title King of the Gypsies come from the Boswell family.
The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is the lifetime's work of Gordon Boswell (died 27 August 2016, aged 76 [1]), who amassed a collection of artefacts, photographs, and several examples of the characteristic Gypsy wagon or Vardo.
The term English Travellers may refer to the following itinerant groups indigenous to England: British showmen, commonly referred to as Funfair Travellers; New Age Travellers; The Romanichal, a Romani subgroup also known as English Gypsies, are not formally regarded as Travellers. Although they traditionally lived an itinerant lifestyle, the ...