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From: Nathaniel Taylor <>
Subject: Re: "This day is called the feast of Crispian. . ."
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:42:58 -0400
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At 10:55 PM +0000 10/25/11, David Teague wrote:
>Since this date is the 596th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt
>(leaving out the vexatious question of Julian-Gregorian calendar
>conversion), I pose a general question: who among us had ancestors
>at Agincourt that fateful morning?
>Thanks,
>David Teague

I pondered this a few years ago in a blog post:

http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/21

and here traced two specific descents here, from Sir Thomas Gresley
and Sir Richard Waldegrave:

http://www.nltaylor.net/things/mdagincourt.htm

It would be nice to see a systematic list of other known descents to
American colonists, or to any other discrete modern population within
England or outside it.

Nat Taylor
a genealogist's sketchbook:
http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/

PS I never thought I'd say it, but it's in threads like this that I
miss Hines. NLT

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