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URIAH 'Big Just' BURTON (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist

'Uriah is probably best known among Travellers as a bare-knuckle fighter. However, he was also known as an activist who not only fought for the rights of Romany Gypsies and Travellers but also made a stand for law and order and for peace in Ireland. [...] Uriah also used his skill and notoriety as a fighter to support his activist campaigns. In 1978, he walked from Dublin to Belfast to publicise his campaign for peace in Ireland. On 24 February 1979, as Uriah was preparing to make another walk, the Belfast Telegraph published a report stating that he had offered to step into the boxing ring and meet anyone who objected to his peace theories. Uriah apparently added that he would not attack but only defend himself.' -- Norman Burton

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-URI-1926

Image: https://vr4280.wixsite.com/histor.../traveller-and-gypsy-bkb
#GRTHistory #DiversityProject #Wales

Starting with the XML mark-up for one of our most colourful nominees for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. It's going to be a long-haul because it's filled to the brim with new names we haven't previously recorded (we have a database that holds the data to every single person mentioned in the Bywg -- at this point it's over 30k names and associated data), so it might take me more than a day to prepare this piece. But do keep your eyes peeled. It contains the story behind one of Wales's most unusual monuments dedicated to a person's memory.

#Wales #GRTHistory #WelshKale

For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.

'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins

https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales

For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.

'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins

https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales

For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.

'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins

https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales

For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.

'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins

https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales

For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.

'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins

https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales