This man may be a descendant of Vikings. The Vikings penetrated far into Russia and Eastern Europe during the Dark Ages, as far as the Black Sea and Persia. One of them may have courted (or more probably, kidnapped) a fetching gypsy girl and brought her back to Denmark as his wife (or more likely, his servant and concubine). All of their offspring would have had the Romani mitochondrial DNA, and all of their female descendants would have passed it on, perhaps for centuries.
So perhaps this man was born of a Saxon father, and a woman of mixed Saxon and Danish blood who had a Gypsy great-great-grandmother. The Danes invaded much of the eastern part of England, including Norwich, in the 8th through 10th centuries. They might well have brought along some gypsy blood acquired in the 6th or 7th centuries.
-ccm
Or maybe the gypsies didn't really originate from Northern India? Nobody really knows where they came from.
It's an exceedingly weird culture. I know it's an "offensive stereotype" to say that they're thieves, but it's also true.
Or maybe they did come from Northern India, after all. Apparently there are still nomadic tribes in Nothern India that are considered "criminal tribes" because they are professional thieves.
Of course this is just "offensive stereotyping" -- at least that's the official word.
Except that they really do steal and commit fraud. Ask any cop.