HOME FIRED IN HOMAGE
ANCIENT GIPSY CUS.TOM. An ancient gipsy custom was observed on Botany Bay Common, Sholing, near Southampton, England, recently, when the caravan and all the possessions of the head of the encampment were burned following the death of the owner, Lavinia Bowers, at the j age of 75. The Bowers family estab- I lished the colony about 100 years ago. i As the flames consumed the yellow j caravan on red wheels, five sons and one daughter loolced on. Three feath-er-beds, a hrass stove, omaments, all the dead woman's clothing were destroyed. Frederick Bowers, the eldest son, said, "It was my mother's last wish."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 3
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