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From: "Jeanette Iredale" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Adoption
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:12:15 +1000
References: <NFEBKNGJIFOEHGGFJODJCEHACEAA.greenall@walthamabbey.co.uk>


> Do you find that knowing your story is still a bit of a dangerous
thing? I
> daren't repeat mine too carelessly in conversation - it is
surprising how
> many locals would still get quite upset by having this old wound
prodded.
>
Tim,

I know just what you mean, I know of a very old family skeleton which
I stupidly repeated to a second cousin, who until then was very
helpful, and wham! that was the end of that correspondence.

Jeanette Iredale
Brisbane Qld Australia
<>

Researching:- Northumberland - BOURKE, BROCKBANK, BRUCE, BUTCHER,
DODD/S, EDGAR, GOLDWATER, HOLMES, HORSLEY, IREDALE, LOOKUP, SWINHOE,
TULIP, USHER,
VENUS, WILLIS, YOUNG
Co. Durham: EDGAR, IREDALE
Cumbria - BROCKBANK
London - BARTLEY, BROWN, CLOW, GRAVES, IREDALE, PROCTOR
Australia - IREDALE, PAVEY, McCARRON


----- Original Message -----
From: LA Greenall <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: RE: [SoG] Adoption


> > I have a similar story to tell. But don't you wish your ancestor
had
> > left an account for his descendants to read? Might one have been
buried
> > with him, I even wonder?
> >
> > --
> > Tim Powys-Lybbe

> > For a patchwork of bygones: http://powys.org
>
>
> Tim, if I knew for a fact one had, I'd be the first to go lurking
about the
> graveyard with only the moon and a trowel for company! But my lot
were/are
> very private and retiring so I doubt very much the existence of any
diary.
>
> I think the best surviving accounts would be those kept as memories
and
> stories by his 'other' descendants, none of which, except for the
lady
> mentioned, I've managed to trace. Yet.
>
> Do you find that knowing your story is still a bit of a dangerous
thing? I
> daren't repeat mine too carelessly in conversation - it is
surprising how
> many locals would still get quite upset by having this old wound
prodded.
>
> Lawrence
>
>

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