ROMANIES MEET
LONDON, June !). A solemn-faced group of men stood at, the bedside of an .'SO-yoar-old woman in a caravan near Chesterfield and heard her whisper: "Asduva chevy gelled Chesty ehavy.” The old woman was Mrs. Christmas Lee, better known as "Gypsy" Lee, one of Britain’s oldest Romanies. The men were her sous and grandsons. The words .she uttered in Iho Romany longue mean: "Have you come home? God bless you." llcr descendants came from all parts of the country after hearing the "real, original, Gypsy Lee" was ill and wanted to see them again.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 3
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