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From: "Donald Massey" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] MASSEY And MASSEY GREEN at Thelwall
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:23:38 -0000
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I missed the start of this thread, but would query the statement below: is
it based on thorough research, or just surmise?

Unless it can be shown that dear old Hamon was the only bearer of the name,
there could well have been others of the same name, but with lesser claims
to fame and nobility which might not be so attractive to some people.

Donald Massey

----- Original Message -----
>>There are at least a dozen major branches of the MASSEY family, spread
>> around Cheshire and they all originate with the Norman conquest. Dunham
>> Massey was where the first Baron Hamon de Mascy established his base back
>> in
>> the reign of William the Conqueror.



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