Gypsy Coppersmiths in Liverpool and BirkenheadMacfie, R. A. Scott (Robert Andrew Scott)
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Gypsy Coppersmiths in Liverpool and Birkenhead
Macfie, R. A. Scott (Robert Andrew Scott)
Romanies
Readers who may be sufficiently interested in these strange yet
fascinating people to wish to make a closer study of them and their
speech, are referred to the able articles published by Mr. E. O. Winstedt
and the Rev. F. G. Ackerley in the _Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society_.
Information about the work of this Society and the conditions of
membership can be obtained by application to the Honorary Secretary, 21A,
Alfred Street, Liverpool.
FOOTNOTES.
{v} It’s not been possible to reproduce the typography of the original.
Instead the various groups have been split into separate tables, with the
parents coming first, and the row underneath being their children, and
the row underneath that the children of the children.—DP.
{vi} The author’s thanks are offered to the editors of _The Bazaar_,
_The Manchester Guardian_, and _The Birkenhead News_, who have most
kindly permitted him to reprint articles from their respective
publications, as well as to Mr. Fred. Shaw, Mr. F. A. Cooper, the Central
News and Newspaper Illustrations, Ltd., for leave to reproduce their
admirable photographs.
{1} _Manchester Guardian_, Friday, August 30, 1912.
{7} _Manchester Guardian_, Thursday, June 20, 1912.
{13} _Birkenhead News_, Wednesday, March 26, 1913.
{32} From _The Bazaar_, _Pictures_, _Poetry_, _Prose_, a publication
edited by Dr. William E. A. Axon and sold for the benefit of a bazaar
held at Manchester in October, 1912, in aid of the United Kingdom
Alliance, a temperance organization.
{38} _Birkenhead News_, Saturday, March 29, 1913.
{44} _Birkenhead News_, Saturday, March 1, 1913.
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