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From: "Peter" <>
Subject: Re: WHO WAS ?
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:22:27 -0800
References: <02f601c074db$08b7d8a0$026cff3e@default>


Hello List,
Little Jack Hornet
Sat on his Cornet
Doesn't quite scan, the name is HORNER, It was a popular name in the North
Yorkshire Dales in the 19th century.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "diana harding" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: WHO WAS ?


> Hi Dave
>
> What a name. Was s/he living with any other HUNKs? Or might it just be a
> mistranscription do you think? Something like Harriet Hunt? Or might it
> have been a foreign seaman as Northwood included Cowes?
>
> Di
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Peach <>
> To: <>
> Date: 30 December 2000 20:32
> Subject: WHO WAS ?
>
>
> >Hi, List,
> >Does a name ever ump out and grab you?
> >Saw this one in the 1881 Census for Northwood IOW: HORNET HUNK.
> >
> > What a name, does anyone know, who was Hornet Hunk?
> >
> >Regards, Dave
> >
>

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