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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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 Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Ottis Oakinshield |
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I have been researching my family history for the last couple of years, building a fam tree and such...
I came across this story in a book the other day, sounds kinda' familiar..
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A letter from a L******* descendant, (now deceased ) , back in 1968 , related -
"Many years ago my father told me that there was a L******* crest and the the symbol on the crest was a mailed arm and fist holding an oak branch . He told told me that this was awarded to the L******* family by a king who was on a wild boar hunt. When the king was charged by the boar and our forebear, L******, broke a branch from an oak tree and charged the boar, thus saving the life of the king . How much of this is fact or fiction I have no way of of knowing"
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I knew I was related to Dwarfs.... (even if I am 6' 1")
also, not related to the first story, but I thought it was interesting.
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This decription also contains , ---
"Some of the L*******s were evidently Royalist! for they threw in their lot with the Stuarts at Monmouth Rebellion (1685), and in the clean-up that followed, about 40 L*******s were hanged in their own ceiling beams at L******* Common , and the house burned."
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I'm a nonconformist from way back.. 
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Nifty:) Isn't family history simply too cool for words? 
Though I must say there is little surprise here to find out so many males in your family were hung, Master Oakenshield 
Sil
*a most off-color hobbitess this morning*
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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | Nifty:) Isn't family history simply too cool for words?
Though I must say there is little surprise here to find out so many males in your family were hung, Master Oakenshield
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*a most off-color hobbitess this morning* |
Off color is my favorite color...
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When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
Pink Floyd, Comfortably numb
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RoxieRxChicago
Joined: 14 May 2005
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Location: Kentucky
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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My great great great great..... something or other grandmother was burned at the stake for being a witch. And my parents wonder where I get it from. Needless to say, they were appalled when I dug that up  |
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vladazhael
Joined: 15 Dec 2005
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Location: Gone mad, back later
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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My great x ? grandfather was a pirate. Arrr.
Though apparently no Johnny Depp. His people skills left a bit to be desired, a fact apparently agreed upon by the crew that mutinied and tossed him overboard. He washed up somewhere and was nursed back to health by a woman with whom he eventually fathered twin sons (one of which was my great x ?-1 grandfather). Later, he got another boat, and another crew, but apparently no lessons in good manners. The second crew mutinied as well, but had the good sense to knock the poor bastard out before throwing him overboard.
And that was the end of that.
Arrr, I say. 
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