Urania ''Gypsy Lee'' Boswell

Urania Boswell (Nee Lee)

Also known as ''Gypsy Lee''

(Queen of the Kent Gypsies)

Born: 1851 in Essex, England

Death: 24 Apr 1933 in Farnborough, Kent, England

Age: 81

Spouse:

Levi Boswell

Also known as Gypsy Chief (On Grave)

(King of the Kent Gypsies)

Born: 1847 in Leicestershire, England

Death: 1 May 1924 in Farnborough, Kent, England

Age: 77

Children:

Percy Herbert Boswell

Born: Unknown

Death: 23 May 1947

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     In Loving Memory

                    of

       LEVI BOSWELL

     THE GIPSY CHIEF

WHO PASSED AWAY 1 MAY 1924

      AGED 77 YEARS

LIGHT IS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD COME 
A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED
A PLACE IS VACANT IT OUT HOME
WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED
             ALSO OF
    URANIA BOSWELL
          (Gipsy Lee)
BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 24 APRIL 1933
       AGED 81 YEARS
Re-United-Home at last
 PERCY HERBERT BOSWELL
      SON OF ABOVE
   DIED 23 MARCH 1947
     AGED 75 YEARS
_______________________________                                                                                                                        Burial:

St Giles the Abbot Churchyard

Farnborough

Greater London, England

 

This is a photo of Levi Boswell (King of the Kent Gypsies) funeral

Buried at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire: No. 2 - the Smiths

This is the second of three items on this site about the Gypsy monuments visited by the Gypsiologist Robert Scott Macfie on 11 October 1909 at Flaybrick Cemetery in Birkenhead, Cheshire. He saw this one commemorating the Smiths, another for the Chilcot/ts and one for Mackenzie Boswell.

Here’s part of the inscription Scott Macfie took from the Smith tomb, now preserved in a document at the Gypsy Collections at the University of Liverpool Library: To the memory of | Elizabeth Smith | who died 5th January 1883 Aged 76 years  Charles Henry Smith | Born January 20th 1864 Departed this life January 12th 1897 [Here Scott Macfie has sketched a freemason's mark that he saw cut into the stone] Also of Frederick Grandson of Elizabeth Smith | who died at Douglas, Isle of Man, 12th Septr 1889 | Aged 23 and is here interred. Robert Scott Macfie wrote: “This grave is exactly similar  [to the Chilcott grave], and is next to it.”  The description of that tomb says: ”Table tomb with gable top on the surfaces of which the inscriptions are cut. Mounted on plinth: no railing. Quiet and tasteful monument without ostentation.”  Elizabeth Smith [B9 on the Borrow's Gypsies family tree elsewhere on this site] was the widow of Elijah Buckley. Charles Henry Smith [D40] and Frederick Smith [D41] were the sons of Elizabeth’s son George Smith [C12] and his wife Corlinda Lee.