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From: "Roy Perkins" <>
Subject: Re: FAIL family
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:36:56 +0100
References: <18d.5f93108.29dce440@cs.com>

Hi Dale,

In the Borders they're known as the Faa's. Now it may well be the same
family, but someone may have put two and two together and got five. The
last gypsy queen was apparently Esther Faa Blyth and I have seen various
dates for her death, one being 1883. I knew a number of the family
descendants in Birkenhead, Merseyside and there either is or was a member of
this list or SCT-ROXBURGH who had done a lot of work on them. In fact on
refection I think it was SCT-ROXBURGH.

If I can be of any more help please come back to me.

Regards

Roy
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Subject: FAIL family


> To all,
>
> I have been told that my Fail family were members of the Kirk Yetholm
Gypsy
> families. We had never heard this before and were told, if you mention the
> name Fail, people know it is a Gypsy family. My g-grandmother was Esther
> Fail, her father, Robert Fail, born Ingram, Northumberland. Her mother,
> Margaret Carmichael, Wooler, Norhtumberland.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dale
>
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