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Names Places Photos Links Ager Barguss Bennett Colton Goodman Henson Illing Loveridge Meakins Miller Rainbow Reynolds Richardson Ridgway Smith	My great-great-great-grandmother Emily was a travelling Romany gypsy born in Towcester in around 1846 with the maiden name of Loveridge. She married Shadrack Smith in Towcester in July 1866. (For more information on Emily and the Smith gypsy ancestors please take a look at the Smith and Goodman pages) Emily Loveridge was the youngest child of Thomas Loveridge and Winifred Smith who married in Olney, Buckinghamshire in 1818. Thomas and Winifred had the following children whilst they continued their travels around the country, Theanna/Anna (1819) Northants, William (1824) Oxon, Eliza (1827) Warks, Joshua (1831), Lewis (1832), Ezekiah (1834) Northants, Asher (1836) Northants, Wineford (1841), Alfred (1842) Northants, Cornelius (1845) Northants and Emily (1846) Northants. Emily's father Thomas Loveridge was born in Leicestershire in 1800 to Moses Loveridge and his wife Symphy (nee Smith). They had married in Olney, Bucks in 1793. Emily's mother Winifred (nee Smith) was born in Northants in 1803 to James Smith and his wife Winifred (nee Loveridge). So in a bizarre twist Winifred was born a Smith and became a Loveridge, whilst her mother was born a Loveridge and became a Smith. You couldn't make this up!		Gypsy folk with no settled abode and coming from distant countries were regarded by people of fixed abode as possessing the evil eye - all the more so if he had a swarthy face, wore rings in his ears, lived in a 'wheeled-house' and spoke in a language which was obviously not a Christian one. My favourite word in the Romany language is 'hotchiwitchi' which is a hedgehog (usually a nice treat for dinner..) Kushti Bok meaning good luck is a more well known phrase.