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From: "Davies" <>
Subject: [Cmn-L] Fw: [MM] BLOUNTs
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:16:34 +1000

----- Original Message -----
From: "J A Olsen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday 06 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MM] BLOUNTs


> hi rita
>
> People quite often state that 'everyone called xxx is descended from so
and
> so'. Or that they all came from a certain town or village.
>
> This is obviously daft since it is quite impossible to trace all the
> individuals from now back to whenever - 1066AD for example.
>
> its particularly unlikely if the name was based on a nickname or physical
> characteristic. Obviously a lot of people could be called 'blondie' at the
> same time in different parts of the country.
>
> Then you have the chances of someone with a similar name who turns up in
the
> village and gets put down as BLOUNT in the registers because its a name
the
> vicar has heard of, and he cant make head nor tail of the newcomers accent
> and doesnt much care anyway.
>
> Then you have the fibbers and the sycophants and all the others who want a
> bit of reflected glory (well actually, I'm a cousin of Lord Blount, gimme
a
> bit of that roast peacock).
>
> BUT.. on close inspection the author of the piece isnt really saying that
> all BLOUNTs etc are descended from one noble line.
>
> The delicious vague and wobbly grammar gives plenty of clues that the
whole
> thing is based on supposition, but what the writer is really saying I
think
> is that "all the BLOUNTS WHO MATTER - including the bloke who paid for
this
> - are descended from one noble line". The mill worker BLOUNTs and the
> pig-keeper BLOUNTs just dont come into it!
>
>
> Judy
>
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