Posted By:Bob Scott
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Subject:Origina Located (partly)
Post Date:October 28, 2008 at 11:14:25
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Forum:Gypsy Family Genealogy Forum
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Various periodicals and books published in the 1800s say that the gypsies in Hanover were led by Owen Stanley was born in Reading Berkshire. England, and died February 21, 1860, in his sixty-seventh year. His wife, the queen, died August 30, 1857, age sixty-three years.

That's according to the History of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, published in 1909.

Contemporaneous accounts says Stanley died in his wagon near Madison (The 1860 census showed the group in Hanover) and that his body was taken back to Dayton to be buried by his wife who another account identified as Harriet Warden. They were buried in the Woodland cemetery

They apparently to have arrived at Dayton in 1856 from Canada (where they can't have stayed long) , moved on to Indiana quickly, and most moved on quickly again.