The tinkler-gypsies . f Romani-speaking Gypsies of 1505or by an anterior wave, still await to be solved. The Tinklers, like the Irish Crinks, are, asMr Groome puts it, but half and halfs, orrather a thimbleful of Romani to a bucket ofGorgio blood. The blood of this countryundoubtedly bulks largely in their veins. Butwhence arises that so-called Gorgio (house-dweller) element in the Tinkler ? Tinklers,like Gypsies of the Romani-speaking order, gothrough very little ceremony in entering intomarriage. In most cases they merely take oneanothers word as constituting marriage. Theyare, however, as a
The tinkler-gypsies . f Romani-speaking Gypsies of 1505or by an anterior wave, still await to be solved. The Tinklers, like the Irish Crinks, are, asMr Groome puts it, but half and halfs, orrather a thimbleful of Romani to a bucket ofGorgio blood. The blood of this countryundoubtedly bulks largely in their veins. Butwhence arises that so-called Gorgio (house-dweller) element in the Tinkler ? Tinklers,like Gypsies of the Romani-speaking order, gothrough very little ceremony in entering intomarriage. In most cases they merely take oneanothers word as constituting marriage. Theyare, however, as a rule like the Romanies inpreferring to marry one of their own seldom marry outsiders, and too oftenmarry one of their own gang. As has beenobserved in a former chapter, marriage withcousins is of very frequent occurrence, and hasmuch to do with the deterioration of the preponderance of the so-called Gorgioelement is not likely, then, to have come throughmarriage with house-dwellers. Upon this phase. Orij^in of Tinkler-Gypsies. 399 of the question the fact that Tinklers had asecret language of their own, and still have thesame in a more or less decadent state, has, aswill afterwards be shown, an important bearingupon the question. We see the process of fusion betweenRomani-speaking Gypsies and these ancientcant-speaking Tinklers in force when JohnnieFaw, as a captain of a gang many of whosenames were clearly Romani-Gy[)sy names, peti-tioned the King. Mr David MacRitchie hasshown in his Ancient and Modern Britonsi^^ thatFaws—a synonym for Tinklers—existed in thiscountry long before the arrival of the wave ofRomani-speaking Gypsies of 1505—and surelyJohnnie was never a Gypsy name broughtwith them from the Continent ? AnthonyGagino, or Gavino, the first Lord of LittleEgypt of whom we read (July, 1505) in thehistory of the British Isles, may or may nothave been of British extraction, but there canbe no mistake that when Johnnie Faw as Lordand Earl of Little
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