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From: Phil & Heather <>
Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Curiosities
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:15:10 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <02af01c2d441$ef6c2540$43f9d1d8@Melanie>


Hi Melanie,

Perhaps no Hans Odin's as Odin was a Scandavian God and not a German one!!

As they say, a myth is as good as a mile!

Phil.

At 10:57 AM 2/14/2003 -0500, Chovhani wrote:

>I like the idea but there's no precedent. No Germans named Hans ODIN, no
>Greeks named Stavros ZEUS etc. I can't think of anyone with the surname of a
>deity, despite the Ancestral file proving that we all descend from one of
>them or another!
>Melanie
>*1881 Census by Street Name* :-
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/melanie.boxall
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salaam Blackmore" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Curiosities
>
>
>Yes, I like the idea of a "Thomas Twyseaday" - but there may even have been
>more to it than a mere coincidence of calendar.
>
>Tiw, later Tiwaz, was one of the oldest English gods - perhaps the oldest.
>Originally believed to have represented the role of sky father, he later
>seems to have been demoted to the role of war god. His name also denotes the
>Y shaped rune, often stamped on swords and other weapons - altogether a most
>suitable appellation for a Sergeant-at-Arms...
>
>Salaam
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Gallafent" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:20 PM
>Subject: [SFK-UK] Curiosities
>
>
> > In message <004701c2d430$95646aa0$>, Hazel Fuller
> > <> writes
> > >This wasn't a Census entry but a 17th century Quarter Assizes
> > >description: Hughe Fletcher, butcher, for keeping swine within his
> > >backside.
> > >Can't have been very comfortable.
> > >
> > >I have been dying for an opportunity to air this. I imagine he was too!
> > >
> > >Hazel
> >
> > I'm reminded of a curiously named individual listed at Henry VII's
> > funeral in 1509. One of the Serjeant of Arms, he was called Thomas
> > Twyseaday. One cannot but muse upon the reason why he was so called:).
> > Surnames have some strange origins. Years ago, I came across Houselander
> > in Hull. It's probable that an original German immigrant, who was unable
> > to speak English, when asked his name replied 'Auslander' which is
> > 'foreigner' in German. Thus he became 'Houselander' to the locals and
> > remained so:)
> >
> > Mike.
> > --
> > =======================================================================
> > Mike Gallafent - Publisher - CD 'Strangers, Foreigners & Aliens'
> > - CD 'Early Inhabitants of Kent'
> > - CD 'Published Wills of Kent'
> > - CD 'Middlesex Oath Rolls 1641-2'
> > =======================================================================
> >

Member of Kent FHS, NW Kent FHS, GLSFHS, CONFHS, DEVFHS, SoG, GOONS
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