A lot of our travelling folk were tin-smiths , and defo ended up in Oz .
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Thats why they were/are called tinkers.
Yeah, a ton of then ended up here. It's funny because now their descendents have no idea what their own history is and they're all rushing to apologise for the sins of the English government of the early 19th century.
Lets not kid ourselves , none of us know our history.
Except for Ancestry, they know everyone’s history….apparently 😉
So Aussies boil their water in dog food tins, this explains so much…