Hi beautiful people 💖

I wish you a happy new year and hope it brings you joy. Let's keep creating and believing in a brighter future. You never know what wonderful surprises are around the corner. 

It has been quite a while since I posted here, but I wanted to share my new year surprise, quite out the blue!

I was researching my family tree, mainly my grandfather's side, Wolstenholme, as couldn't find my grandmother's line at all. Earlier in January, I was helping someone else with researching their tree when the same names popped up which I had been searching for. The websites were Romany (gipsy/gypsy) lineage. 

I soon found out that my grandmother was Roma. It was quite the revelation. She had once said that we were related to Gypsy Lee, but due to her being ill, we didn't take much notice. Now, that statement made sense. I never thought to search for Barnes gypsies, the area my grandmother was from. At that point, I saw where the block lay, in her mother's name, Sinney Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith and Matilda Capel. Her name, Sinney, had been incorrectly logged as Simeon, a boy, on the baptism record. To make sure my assumptions were correct, I sent off for my grandmother's birth cert' and her mother was indeed Sinney Smith, and her husband, George Whitby. By joining various sites, I pieced the lost lineage together. 

So, by helping someone else, I found my grandmother's lineage. Beautiful and amazing. 

I found links to the King of Gypsies, and a prince, all related. It's been quite mind-blowing, but ever so interesting. I truly have a gypsy soul. 😍 

Link: HERE

Love and light,

Trace

xoxo

Gypsy Soul

The Gypsy Soul

• She’s free-spirited. She likes to do what feels right to her. The rules don’t apply, forget whatever people say or whatever the ‘law’ says, she will always question the rules and she refuses to conform to the arbitrary rules. She follows her intuition and her heart and she won’t be held down by anything or anyone.

• She will always be drawn to what triggers her emotions. She’s an extremely emotional person and she can only really thrive if she is deeply passionate about something. Otherwise, she will keep wandering and looking for what moves her soul until she finds it.

• She is fiercely independent. Other people may think she is aloof, but she is not. She just likes to be on her own and she is not the one to cry for weeks over someone or something. She loves her independence and she will never be the one who depends on someone else to make her happy. She wants to find her own happiness.

• She is a living paradox. Because of her extreme emotions, she struggles to find a happy medium. One moment she is happy, sociable, and present, and the next she can be detached, platonic and needs her own space. A gypsy soul is an unpredictable one.

• She is scared to love. She’s scared to give her heart away because this is truly all she got. She’s scared of giving up her freedom. She loves unconditionally but it takes her a while to trust someone because she wants to know that this person will never make her lose her sense of wonder and will not suppress her nomadic lifestyle.

• She dances to the beat of her own drum. She knows she is different and she is not trying to change that. She likes to create her own path and follow it. She is driven by anything that feeds her soul – which is why she loves artists; if she is not an artist herself. Words, rhythms and movements light the fire within her soul.

• She is an old soul. She is always trying to be somewhere else, or feels like she lived many past lives before. She feels a unique connection to older people and she has another life in her head. A life that is so different from the one she is currently living; a simple yet adventurous life her soul longs for. She has an insane desire to be somewhere else.

• She embraces chaos. The chaos of life or the chaos she can create. She finds beauty in imperfection and finds order in chaos. She understands that life is messy and her heart can be messy and she thinks that life should sometimes reflect exactly what she is going through. She is not the one to wear a mask and pretend like everything is OK when it’s not.

• She will always believe in magic. She believes in fantasies and miracles and beautiful surprises from the universe. She believes in fairy tales and she vows to live a life that keeps her eyes sparkling.

Source

“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”

~ Susanna Kearsley (The Rose Garden)

Love and light,

Trace

xoxo