Scottish Gypsy and Traveller groups. Scottish Travellers, or the people in Scotland loosely termed gypsies or tinkers, consist of a number of diverse, unrelated communities that speak a variety of different languages and dialects that pertain to distinct customs, histories, and traditions. There are four distinct communities that identify themselves as Gypsies or Travellers in Scotland: Indigenous Highland Travellers; Funfair Travellers, or Showmen; Romanichals (a subgroup of the Romani people); and Lowland Gypsies. Scottish Lowland groups[edit]Lowland Scottish Gypsy/Travellers[edit]The ethnic origins of Scottish lowland Gypsy/Travellers are not clear, but can be categorised into three main theories: i) those of indigenous origin to the British Isles, like the Scottish Highland and Irish traveller communities; ii) they are of Indian origin and have a common ancestry with the English Romanichal, and continental Romani groups; [1] iii) or a fusion or mix of Romani and indigenous traveller groups.[1] Regardless of the accepted theories, there has been a certain degree of socio- biological fusion historically between Romani groups and indigenous Scottish Gypsy/Travellers, perhaps from the outset of Romani groups arriving in Scotland in the early 1. Scottish travellers with at least some degree of Romani including Romanichal ancestry.[1][2] This is not uncommon and can be seen in other groups throughout Europe including the Yeniche people and Norwegian and Swedish Travellers (the latter Romanisæl who are themselves descended from Romani groups from Scotland).[3]Lowland Gypsy/Travellers share many cultural features with European Gypsy communities such as a belief in the importance of family and family descent, a strong valuing and involvement with extended family and family events, a preference for self- employment, purity taboos (among the Romani people the purity taboos are part of the Romanipen) and a strong commitment to a nomadic lifestyle.[citation needed]History[edit]There is written evidence for the presence of Roma travellers in the Scottish Lowlands as early as 1.

James IV – an entry in a book kept by the Lord High Treasurer records a payment of four shillings to a Peter Ker to take a letter from the king at Hunthall, to the "King of Rowmais". Watch Junction HDQ. Two days later, the King authorised a payment of £2. King of Rowmais".[4][5] In 1. Romanies danced before the Scottish king at the Holyrood Palace and a Romani herbalist called Baptista cured the king of an ailment.[5] Romany migration to Scotland continued during the 1. Romanies were accepted there after being expelled from England.[6][7] Records in Dundee from 1. Egyptians" in the Highlands, and are noted to be of the same nature as the English Gypsies.[8] By 1. Romanies were recorded to exist as far north as Scalloway in the Shetland islands.[6][9] The Finnish Kale, a Romani group in Finland, maintain that their ancestors were originally a Romani group who travelled to Finland from Scotland,[1.

Scandinavian Travellers are distantly related to present- day Scottish gypsies and Romanichals. Romani people in the south of Scotland enjoyed the protection of the Roslyn family and made an encampment within the Roslyn castle grounds. However, as with its neighbour England, the Scottish parliament passed an act in 1. Romani groups known as the “Act against the Egyptians”; [7] which made it lawful to condemn, detain and execute Gypsies if they were known or reputed to be ethnically Romani.[6]Border Gypsies: Kirk Yetholm[edit]Scotland has had a Romani population for at least 5.

Highland traveller and share a common language and heritage with the English Gypsies and Welsh Kale. The first official mention of Travellers in Britain was in 1. Egyptians' by King James IV at Stirling. They enjoyed a privileged place in Scottish society until the Reformation, when their wandering lifestyle and exotic culture brought severe persecution upon them. Romani populations from other parts of Britain often travel in Scotland.

These include English Romanies and Welsh Kale. English Gypsies/Travellers from the north of England mainly in Newcastle- Upon- Tyne and Cumbria as well as an annual gathering at Appleby Horse Fair may be part of common communities with Scottish Travellers living in the Lowlands and borders.

Romanichal traders were upwardly mobile, by 1. Staffordshire and buying china and other goods, selling the items chiefly in Northumberland, while based in Kirk Yetholm in Roxburghshire.[1.

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By 1. 87. 4 these Gypsies were commented on as "Having physical markers in their dusky complexion that is characteristically Gypsy].. Romani".[1. 2] Some people from the Scottish travelling community are even members of Romani organisations based in England and are a minority group in Scotland.[1] Includes Romanies of English heritage in Scotland,[1][1. Scottish Cant or Scottish Romani[edit]The Lowland Gypsy/Travellers speak a form of non- standard Scots language, called Cant, includes many words in common with Romani including Anglo- Romany words. Between 2. 5- 3. 5% of Scottish Cant originates in a Romani- derived lexicon.[1. Containing up to 5.

Romani loan words in some groups of the Central Belt of Scotland, those who are Romanichal or Scottish border Gypsies.[1. Watch Expose Online Forbes here. Which demonstrates the intermarriage and links between Scottish travellers and English Romani populations, historically and in recent times.[1.

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This can be seen as some people from the Scottish travelling community are even members of Romani organisations based in England and are a minority group in Scotland.[1] Includes Romanies of English heritage in Scotland,[1][1. Scottish phonology however differs in some respects from that of Angloromany, and there are items of Romani origin which some researchers have referred as Scoto- Romani,[1. Romani languages of Britain, suggesting an earlier history for the Scottish Romani population and grouping other than that of being an indigenous group. The earliest texts survive from the 1. Medieval and may represent one of the oldest of the component traveller dialects of the British Isles.[1. More research is needed into the Scottish traveller Cant variant.[citation needed]Music and Song[edit]see also: Donnie Munro, "Where the Roses" & "Queen of the Hill", from the Album "An Turas"; The song is based on the author's childhood experiences with the Tinker People in the Scottish Highlands.

Television[edit]Mauro the Gypsy (1. Television dramatisation - by the Children's Film and Television Foundation Ltd. A story about a family of gypsies and the discrimination and hostility they experience in a Scottish village when they apply for a permanent camp site. When chickens start to disappear and scrap metal litters the countryside, the time has obviously come for Mauro and his family to be moved on, but the gypsy family are innocent and were framed by the locals and are allowed to stay. The film received a special award for contribution to racial tolerance by the Moscow International Film Festival in 1.

Novels and short stories[edit]Scottish Traveller Tales: lives shaped through stories by Donald Braid 2. Scottish Travellers.

Pilgrims in the Mist; Stories of Scotland’s Travelling people by Sheila Stewart — a collection of Traveller stories from across Scotland. Northern Traveller tales by Robert Dawson — traditional tales collected from Travellers in the East Midlands, North of England and Scotland.