Word: nettleship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eloped with a pretty, olive-skinned girl named Ida Nettleship, and soon the two set off for Liverpool. There John befriended a scholar whose odd specialty was the gypsy. John became so fascinated by the subject that eventually he, his wife and infant son were wandering about the British Isles in a caravan. The travels lasted through the births of three more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France...