This is a reference work listing sources for information which seem to provide interesting snippets of information about the history, ideas and activities of Scotland's Traveller families. In recent times, census returns, parish records etc, continue to be better sources for the nitty gritty names. Over 30 different sources have been identified with information about 192 families, each source being indicated as a major or minor one for family historians to prioritize. There were Travellers in Scotland long before Gypsies arrived there c 1480. They were musicians, bards and, using the word in its original sense, tinkers - workers in metal...the formation of modern Scottish Travellers had two significant inputs which made the Romani and Lowland influences much less and the Highland ones more. These events were the 45 Uprising - Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender depending upon your viewpoint (1745) - and, even more importantly, the Highland Clearances.Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the surnames of those who fought on the side of Bonnie Prince Charlie? (1745-6) or the previous Jacobite campaign (1715) are those of modern day Scottish Travellers...2
9pp, size A4, card covers.
- ISBN10 190341816X
- ISBN13 9781903418161
- Publish Date 1 September 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Robert Dawson
- Format Paperback
- Pages 28
- Language English