In Ireland Travellers were also commonly known as tinkers, derived from the sound their tools made hitting metal when many Travellers worked as tinsmiths. Both gypsies and tinkers are considered pejorative terms today.
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So who are these people we call Travellers? They used to live mostly in caravans or mobile homes in which they travelled all over the country or into England. They have Irish surnames – Ward, Connors, Carty, O'Brien, Cash, Coffey, Furey, MacDonagh, Mohan.
Traveler and traveller are both English terms. Traveler is predominantly used in ???? American (US) English ( en-US ) while traveller is predominantly used in ???? British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ).