HomicideHenry wrote:x2x wrote:HomicideHenry wrote:
He has both Romany and Traveller blood in him.... the Burton's are Roms, the Fury's and Gorman's are Travellers, etc.
Were the Burtons Romany? It seems to say here that they were also Irish Travellers, not Romany.
Fury's great grand uncle, Traveler bare knuckle boxer, Uriah Burton:
" When I was 16, I admired only two fighters: Rocky Marciano and Uriah Burton. Everyone had heard of Marciano, the world heavyweight champion who never took a backward step and never lost a fight. But Burton was known only in the secretive world of the Travellers, a name uttered in hushed tones. He was an ogre, they said. He had the strength of five men. He beat opponents two at a time. He would stop at nothing and fight to the death. He sounded like something from the Dark Ages, more myth than man. Only when I came to know him did I realise the stories were true.
Bartley Gorman
from Bareknuckle Memoirs of
the Undefeated Champion"
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-styl ... -1.1366134
https://books.google.com/books?id=tDsjC ... ny&f=false
"My first encounter with Big Just (Uriah Burton) remains burned in my memory. His father had died and, in keeping with the Romany tradition...."
