The Mysterious Death of Mary Pradd in 1876 was recorded by a coroner when two men she had been drinking with woke from their sleep to find her dead, but lacerated body on the floor. Despite the men being found together with the body, there was no evidence to tie them them to the fate of the victim. This is the brief story of that crime, as well as the community of ‘London Nomads’ and street hawkers to which she belonged; as told by a Victorian journalist who, by chance, happened to photograph her shortly before her death.
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My family is the Stanley Romany Gypsie clan. My Grandfather became an understudy for the Vampire Raymond Huntley. He toured with the Hamilton Dean Theater Company. After WW1 he never went back to living in a caravan. He met my grandmother and had one child. He didn't tell her about the other 7 children he had with his first wife.
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My family settled during WW1 when the two eldest sons went to war, the 3rd, my grandfather, was too young at around 10.
Sadly Peter was killed around Ypres and is buried near Calais and John was killed at the Somme and never found.
It broke my grandmother and they never travelled again.
My Great Grandfather was i believe a traveling engineer, who had a bow top living wagon and an engineers wagon (like a railway goods truck but smaller) towed behind, he travelled from Cumbria to Glasgow twice a year to match up with spring sowing time and harvest time as he would fix the machinery.
Ive always had the wandering spirit as kids we moved at least once a year up to age 11.
I became a professional gypsy by joining the military in my 20's when settled life was getting too much.
Watching this, I realize I must be getting older because I keep wanting an RV!
Caravans look healthier and prettier than creepy flats.
The Gypsies had good reason to dislike Germans , as did my people the Czechs . We were considered “ worthless.”
We had many such people in the Orkney islands known as Tinkers. The Newland’s, Farquhar’s and McPhee’s were the most prominent families. Latterly they were housed in old army huts left empty after WWII in an area that became known as Hell’s Half Acre.
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly with every new video I learn new information, new vocabularies. Nomads means person with no settled home , moving from place to place as way of obtaining foods , finding pasture to live stock or other wise making living as people who live in desert we call them Bedouin. I just know there are victorian cameras . John Thomason was Scottish photographer , traveler . He known for discovered electronic and than went on to propose model 1 for structure of atom . His work led to invention of spectrograph British Joseph John . He took picture with victim Mary before few weeks of her death .
A fascinating slice of life, thank you.
How great it is to have this treasury of biographical and social information, kept safe by previous generations.
I scrutinized your rich picture montage, as usual….
a woman of 55 years in those days was considered getting towards being elderly 😳
The drudgery of life would have aged anybody prematurely. I'm not sure how they coped without Ibuprofen for sore muscles and joints, etc, but they knew that being outside in the sunshine and fresh air was good medicine.
The travellers probably had better health than most in the cities at that time.
The severely scraped back hairstyles that women had then didn't flatter them in older age, unfortunately.
I'm so glad that wearing your hair out in this era is not considered an indicator of your moral character.😁
David Starkey said during his recent commentary of the Coronation, that Queen Elizabeth 1st had her golden hair loose on her Coronation Day, and was described as being "sat in her hair". She would have looked stunning, and magnificent.
Women are victimized and oppressed by men. So please stay away from us. Thank you very much!
Hi Fact Feast ❤I have been following your channel for a long time now but I think this video has to be by far my favourite I have to admire the uniqness and story telling that the channel delivers, thank you ❤.
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Long live the Romnichal..
Great photographs. I think I would have preferred the travelling life to the lives of many families who had to endure cramped and unsanitory living conditions in industrialised cities, working in deplorable conditions just to pay the rent.
I'm not suggesting it would've been easy but at least they had fresh air and could move around to where there was work. 👍
You truly do bring the past alive! Subscribed!
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