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Re: Mary Faa ~ Banished to America in 1714

LOCKEroots — 2011-06-11 21:54:47Z

Joyce, thank you very much for posting this information!
Just wondering, is there any other mentions of other Romanies "Gypsies" having been transported in that book? If yes i'd love to get that information because that is exactly what I am researching!

I am one of those British Romanichals "Gypsy" descendants who's immigrant was one of those transported during that same era.
You can email me directly if you like!
lockeroots@comcast.net
Donald Locke
Thanks!

Faa's of Scotland to Virginia

LOCKEroots — 2011-05-06 07:12:48Z

Faw also known under the surnames of Faa and Fall, were
Scottish Romany Gypsies who were forcefully transported to the Virginia plantations in 1715 as convicts.

In the Book, Scottish Gypsies
http://www.archive.org/stream/scottishgypsiesu00macr#page/n3...

They clearly speaks of the Faa / Faw / Fall Gypsy family all through out the book, some of which were transported to Virginia, and likely transported to South Carolina as well.
They are one of Scotland's most well known of the Gypsy families, and are a family of great interest to me.

If your Faw, Fall, Faa family traces back to Colonial Virginia or South Carolina, I would be most interested in talking to you about your family tree possibly being of Romany Gypsy ancestry.

Please contact me directly
lockeroots@comcast.net

Mary Faa ~ Banished to America in 1714

BasketLady420 — 2005-11-20 02:31:08Z

FAA, Mary
Gypsy. Prisoner in Jedburgh Tolbooth. Banished at Jedburgh, 30 November 1714. Transported via Glasgow on a Greenock ship, master James Watson, by merchants Robert Buntine of Airdoch, James Lees and Charles Crawford to Virginia, 1 January 1715.
(GR)

I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled " Scots Banished to the American Plantations" 1650-1775 by David Dobson. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1983. pg. 45.
Joyce

Peter Faa ~ Banished from Scotland in 1714

BasketLady420 — 2005-11-20 02:28:22Z

FAA, Peter
Gypsy. Prisoner in Jedburgh Tolbooth. Banished at Jedburgh, 30 November 1714. Transported via Glasgow on a Greenock ship, master James Watson, by merchants Robert Buntine of Airdoch, James Lees and Charles Crawford to Virginia, 1 January 1715.
(GR)

I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled " Scots Banished to the American Plantations" 1650-1775 by David Dobson. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1983. pg. 45.
Joyce