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The Sussex Gypsy Diaries 1898-1926 - PDF download
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The Sussex Gypsy Diaries 1898-1926 - PDF download
In 1898 the Chief Constabulary Officer of Sussex Police sent out blank journals to each of his Police Divisions. He ordered them to keep a day-by-day record of the number, location and names of adult Gypsies and other Travelling people camped on their beats - and this scheme continued until 1926.
In 1898 the Chief Constabulary Officer of Sussex Police sent out blank journals to each of his Police Divisions. He ordered them to keep a day-by-day record of the number, location and names of adult Gypsies and other Travelling people camped on their beats - and this scheme continued until 1926.
The Sussex Gypsy Diaries 1898-1926
Transcribed by Janet Keet-Black
In 1898 the Chief Constabulary Officer of Sussex Police sent out blank journals to each of his Police Divisions. He ordered them to keep a day-by-day record of the number, location and names of adult Gypsies and other Travelling people camped on their beats - and this scheme continued until 1926. The surviving 'Diaries' contained in this volume cover the Police Divisions of Burwash, Burwash Weald and Glynde in East Sussex; and Burgess Hill, Fernhurst and Upper Beeding in West Sussex.
This PDF download is a transcription of what was a virtual mini-census of those living in or travelling through Sussex.
It has been scanned from a printed book originally published by the RTFHS in 1999.
74 pages.
NOTE that the pages of the printed book, and hence this PDF, are portrait orientation.
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