John Lovell & Union Lee both born about 1797. Union has been written down as Naomi, Unity, Unetta & Onion in various places. Their marriage was registered 10 August 1819, St Mary’s Finchley (gipsies). They both died in Barnes, Surrey, John on 7/2/1879, & Union on 29/1/1880. Their children were baptized along the route they would have travelled between Kent & Surrey, South of London, Woodmansterne, Godstone, Mertstham, Banstead & Morden. The gipsies living on Barnes Common were ‘settled’ in to cottages by the 1870s. In 1871 John & Union are living with daughter ‘Catherine’ (also called Limpedy, her baptismal name, or Caroline/Limpady/Limpetti) in the Whitby Family at 4 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Barnes. John (73) says born in Northmin , Here/tfordshire (poss North Mymms, Herts). Union (74) says born in ‘Enfield’ Here/tfordshire, (Enfield is in Middlesex). He is a Skewer Maker. Daughter Catherine a ‘general hawker’ as is granddaughter Mignonette Whitby. Son, James Whitby 36 is also a ’skewer maker’. Catherine is 47, married to a ‘Whitby’ (Henry) who isn’t present. In the 1851 census, Catherine and Henry Whitby were at 5 Sadler’s Buildings, Putney. Nearby in 1871 some of the Lee family (Union’s maiden name) are at 1 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Cottages. Humphries Lee (Bapt. Humphrey 1832 to Belcher & Lydia Lee) is a ‘skewer maker’ and his wife is Britannia, daughter of John & Union Lovell. Humphries & Britannia married 21st Dec1865 St. Mary’s Church, Putney. 3 more of John & Union’s children are at 1 Hampton Cottages, Barnes. Joseph 30, Mignonette 38 and Duriah Lovell 33.
Son Henry Lovell is also in Barnes in 1871, with wife Catherine. She is an ‘Ironmonger’ and Henry a ‘skewer maker’. There is also a nephew Alfred North (20) ‘Skewer maker’, born Barnes, and niece Louisa North (18) born in Northamptonshire. These are the children of another daughter, Druscilla/Duritia, who married Edmund North but died in 1867.

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