Hi,

Yea I’m not seeing much evidence of the gypsy connection currently, I think it was just something that was passed down orally. I would say that Duberley is not native to England though.

I did some research on the family tree that I think I got from you, and it mentioned William Doberle of Redbrook. Ancestry.com said that he died in Newland, Gloucestershire, and that his son James Doberle showed up with different names like Jacob Heinrich Doberle, I thought it sounded foreign and I tried to search the last name and it seemed to be only found in South Germany/Upper Austria, I also searched up around that time how some immigrations happened with German Workers travelling to England as the Crown was trying to hire skilled miners and metalworkers, with the river Wye traditionally being used for people immigrating i thought it made sense and definitely believed that they were immigrants but this is just a theory and it would help explain the oral message I was told about French Gypsies=German/foreign skilled workers.

A separate point but I noticed that Austin’s Wife Cicely Wilks Grandmother was Irish, Berr, kings county, Ireland. This is all going off what Ancestry has suggested to me so there may be assumptions but I would love to hear what you know about the family tree and anything that could support or break down what I’ve just mentioned as I’m still trying to figure out where the Duberleys are from because the name is very rare and I’ve only heard it in the Forest.

I did a DNA test a few years back and the results Said a few things, I then used the data from it and put it into this other type of testing which gave more detailed estimations of specific areas, I did another thing with these things called Ethnicity calculators which put your dna data from the test into a calculator and it gives detailed readings as how your dna splits into each category and they were very interesting, i felt the results supported the theory of gypsy/romani but the genealogist on the site said this was not true but he did put the results onto a plotting map which shows you which populations you match closest to and mine drifted closer to Belgian and Swiss then British, I’m taking a new test with a better company that has the most reference populations and regions to get more accurate readings and this can either support things further or cancel out the theory.