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    Sarah COOPER fortune teller and a member of an encampment of Gipsies was committed to gaol for 14 days for exercising her calling among the servant girls at a house in Clarence Lawn."
    (Dover Telegraph 8 May 1847 p.8 col.1)

    The SCAMP family too, were well known in the gypsy world, in Kent, and had most interesting Christian names: -
    a few are: Sanspareil (= without parallel); Soloman; Nelson; Wellington; Safely; Faith; Riley; Gilderoy; Seely; Marsala; Lavinia, etc.

    I suppose 'Servian' means Serbian to us. Interesting they had bears and monkeys.

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