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Subject: Re: Why we won't do lookups
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 01:04:21 +0000
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<> wrote...

>>Can I help it if my chosen alias happens to coincide with the
name of a village in Yorkshire where I believe the person I am
accused of representing - or should that be misrepresenting? -
once had a remote ancestor who was either the Lord of the Manor
of Thirsk or the Hooded Flasher of Marston Moor, according to
which version you believe?<<

THE Hooded Flasher of Marston Moor? You must be thinking of my
gt-gt-uncle Cedric, poor chap, who was a lifelong somnambulist and
was often to be found wandering the highways and byways of North
Yorkshire at dead of night, donned only in his nightshirt and a
sleeping cap with a bobble on the end which was several sizes too
large for him and kept slipping down over his eyes and ears, thus
giving the impression that he was hooded. The police would often find
him thus and have to return him to my gt-gt-aunt, who was not amused
by these unfortunate escapades and used to lock him in the cowshed
for a couple of days.

Well, sleepwalking was the excuse he always gave whenever he came up
in court. Except, of course, for the memorable occasion when he told
the magistrate he had been visited in a dream in the middle of the
night by the ghosts of Parliamentary soldiers who had been killed at
the Battle of Marston Moor. They urged him to join them and aid in
the defeat of Prince Rupert's troops, upon which he hurriedly climbed
out of bed and set off down the road towards where he thought the
battle was, being intercepted by the village constable who once more
returned him to his abode. Fortunately for gt-gt-Uncle Cedric on that
occasion, he was on intimate terms with the magistrate, to whom he
had sold a black market pig only the week before, so he was let off
with a small fine and a promise to give up his nocturnal wanderings.

I am convinced my poor gt-gt-Uncle Cedric genuinely suffered from
somnambulism and I do not think it very kind to mock so, even if he
is long passed on.




Roy Stockdill, Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about - Oscar Wilde


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