(Fred Shaw, Gypsy Photographer from the Stacey Collection archives)
Photographs by the late Fred Shaw, depicting Rudari Gypsies from the Stacey Collection Archives
The stylized image below by a Victorian artist depicts a romanticized image of a Gypsy recognized in many prints and works of literature. The photographs included on this site will give you an opportunity to view members of a Roumanian Rudari Tribe of Gypsies as they appeared in 1920's England. To learn more about Gypsies from more early scholars, photographers and educators in England, please visit the Photograph Archives held by the University of Liverpool at http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/photoind.htm.
An old Gypsy saying:
If foky kek jins bute, Ma sal at lende; For sore mush jins chomany That tute kek jins.
Translation:
"Whatever ignorance men may show,
From none disdainful turn;
For every one doth something know
Which you have yet to learn."
Fred Shaw was a Gypsy, Photographer and scholar. His studies and photographs during the early years of the twentieth century have left a grand record of Gypsies in Great Britain.
Click the thumbnail images below to view the photographs from the " Stacey Gypsy Photograph Collection"
1.
Venselina (Charlotte) Smith, Walton Downs, Nr Epsom, 3rd June, 1922.
2.
Alfred Smith, Walton Downs, Surrey, 3 June, 1922
.
3.
Angelis Smith & her daughter Rosina, nr Shenley, Herts, 27 Aug,
1922.
5.
Roumanian gypsies, Rosa, wife of Joseph Sistich, with children, Ana,
Mitra & baby - not yet named.
6.
Kosta Stankovic, Colney Heath, Herts, 10th Jan, 1926.
7.
Roumanian Gypsy, Peter, son of Kosta Stankovic, 10th Jan,
1926.
dogs
are called Nell and Rodi
8.
Roumanian Gypsies, L.) Maritsa (Mary) daughter of John Gjorgievic,
C.) John, Son of Kosta Stankovic, R.) Bietra or Bierta (Bertha) dau
of John Mitrovic, and now wife of stanko Gjorgievic, Colney Heath,
Hertfordshire, 10th Jan, 1926.
10.
Roumanian Gypsies, L.) John Mitrovic's Wife, R.) Mitra, Sister to
Kosta Stankovic, wife of John Gjorgjevic, Colney Heath,
Hertfordshire, 10th Jan, 1926.
11.
Roumanian gypsies, Colney Heath, 10th Jan, 1926.
12.
Roumanian Gypsies (Rudari) (Left to Right) 1. Ilinka (Ellen) wife of
Stanko (Stanley) Mitrovic. 2. Mitra, wife of George Stankovic. 3.
George, son of Kosta Stankovic. 4. Birtra (Bertha), wife of Stanko
(Stanley) Gjorgjevic. Colney Heath, Hertfordshire, 9 Jan, 1927.
13.
Roumanian Gypsies (Rudari) John, son of Kosta Stankovic, Stoika
(Roza), daughter of John Mitrovic, Ciolney Heath, Herts, 9 Jan, 1927.
14.
Roumanian Gypsies (Rudari) Stanko (Stanley) son of John Gjorgjevic &
Dzuka (Julia), daughter of John Mitrovic, & wife of John
Stankovic, Colney Heath, Herts., 9 Jan, 1927.
16.
Sam Smith (Fighting Sammy), see Lelands "The Gypsies", a
nephew of Yoki Suri Mentioned by Borrow in "the Lavo Lil."
(no dates or other attributes on this one)
17.
Isaac Herron (no dates or other atributes on this one.)
18.
Render Smith and his wife Maimi. (no date or other attributes.)
19.
Camp at Bucknell, Shropshire, (Left to Right) 1. Wm Ferguson. 2.
Oliver Lee. 3. The late Rev. Geo. Hall. 4. Matthew Wood. 5. Fred
Shaw. 6. Willie Lee.
20.
Our camp at Standrillo, North Wales.
