Editing Kirk Yetholm (section)

== Romani People ==

Kirk Yetholm was the headquarters of the [[Romani people|Romanichal travellers]] in Scotland, having settled in the village about 1750.<ref name=Tele1909>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177854787 |title=Gipsy families. |newspaper=[[Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph (Brisbane)]] |issue=11,519 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 October 1909 |access-date=1 October 2021 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148108842 |title=Queen Esther Faa Blyth |newspaper=The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser |volume=5 |issue=211 |location=South Australia |date=17 October 1884 |access-date=1 October 2021 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  The last King of the Gypsies, Charles Faa Blyth Rutherford, aged 70, was crowned on 31 May 1898.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44215841 |title=Coronation of the Gipsy King. |newspaper=[[The Barrier Miner]] |volume=11 |issue=3194 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=22 July 1898 |access-date=1 October 2021 |page=1 (Second edition) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  A second male, David Blyth, claimed he was the rightful heir, but did not attend the huge ceremony and festivities which was held between the two Yetholm villages.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88087192 |title=Scotland's Gipsy King. |newspaper=[[Kalgoorlie Miner]] |volume=III |issue=809 |location=Western Australia |date=9 July 1898 |access-date=1 October 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  The king died just four years later on 21 April 1902.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128450647 |title=The Gipsy King dead. |newspaper=[[The World's News]] |issue=27 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 June 1902 |access-date=1 October 2021 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=Tele1909 />  Today the gypsies have been integrated and are no longer a separate ethnic minority.  A memorial stone can be found on the village green.<ref>[http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/213.html The Gypsy Memorial, Kirk Yetholm, Scotland<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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File:Sco-Borders-KirkYetholm gypsy stone-2018.jpg|Gypsy stone and plaque (May 2018).
File:Sco-Borders-KirkYetholm gypsy stone text-2018.jpg|Gypsy plaque (May 2018).
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