Mitt Romney: King of the Gypsies

 So I found a blog once with the above title: Mitt Romney….King of the Gypsies?

It’s basic premise was that Mitt could be descended from “gypsies” based on his slightly darker complexion, the area of England he came from and the fact that his last name is “Romney” which sounds like Romani”.

It’s as off the cuff as this blog is… in other words, short on proof.  I’m looking for it and it’s buried in the googler somewhere.

In the meantime, I found this more studious and detailed article from the BBC, which probably has all kinds of implications and insinuations that only a true Brit would notice.  

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18422949

(I have to remind myself I am basically a CEU with a twist.)

If I ever dig up that funny blog, I will share. 

PS

Here’s a quote from the BBC article which is likely relevant to my own British ancestors and their reason for hopping on the boat.

Preston at the time was a desperately poor and dirty place, dominated by the cotton mills. 

"There were cholera epidemics. There was a lot of very bad housing - classic images of open sewers and pits running through the streets, so it was a pretty nasty place," says historian Aidan Turner-Bishop.

"Think of it a bit like the favelas on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, or places like the suburbs of Nairobi today. It was a pretty hard, pretty rough life, and there was a lot of infant mortality."