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Post by mac on Dec 16, 2015 11:28:32 GMT
One part of my family arrived in England in 1066 (uninvited) and another part were probably fighting King Harold in the north a bit earlier. Who would guess that about 800 years later they would meet up here (uwiilingly in some cases). Gotta love history, especially family history. Cheers
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Post by yanmacca on Dec 16, 2015 11:39:48 GMT
Mac that's all I need an Australian Norman
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Dec 17, 2015 11:47:12 GMT
Mac, in many ways it is a small world. Ian, Has more problems than Normans in Australia, he has German descendants in that big castle and they have been there a long time and they were related to Tsars. You talk about your corporate take overs.
Regards, Tom
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Post by mac on Dec 17, 2015 12:15:25 GMT
Those cunning Germans have disguised themselves as Windsors and got away with it! Mind you the Queen of Australia has the option to move here if they no longer want her. My wife's family have some German roots. We are so interbred over here that racism is getting very hard to do. Still there are always some who try. Of course a proportion of my family are of convict origins so I try not to too far above my station. I will admit to the occasional urge to stuff a jumbuck in my tuckerbag though, but so far I have resisted. Ian do not give away that reference. Let people have the fun of finding it themselves; it ain't hard . Cheers
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Dec 17, 2015 12:54:58 GMT
Sheep? Bag from the outback with a draw string? Why not rustle cattle? You know that you have a jumbuck.com and tuckerbag.com. Not what you were looking for I'm sure.
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Post by mac on Dec 18, 2015 0:30:41 GMT
I was hoping for the song Tom. One of my forebears received his free trip to Australia for purloining a sheep. He liked it here and ultimately brought his family out rather than return. A ploughman at home he died owning seven farms here. Cheers
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Post by dave on Dec 18, 2015 3:29:24 GMT
Mac Don't get to proud. I'll have you know that my family antecedents were run out of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland! Some probably had the option of either the gallows or an all expense paid trip to America. The Elmores came from some place called Gloucestershire in England. The Littons came from England, the McClouds from Scotland, the Jenkins from Wales. I am sure the only papers they had were some type of warrants. It is a good thing none of them were Muslim or the Donald would be deporting all of us heathens.
The blessing of coming to America was the ability to start over with a new life in a vast open country with plenty of land opportunities. Thank God there were no computers back then. Regards Dave
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Post by mac on Dec 18, 2015 7:11:58 GMT
So cousin Dave...my wife has McClouds from the Isle of Skye Scotland! Then again if memory serves me Donald Trump's mother (or grandmother) was a McCloud from said Isle of Skye. Better be careful what we say about our kith and kin . See you at the reunion! Cheers Cousin (slightly removed) Mac
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Post by yanmacca on Dec 18, 2015 15:04:23 GMT
We are all family here boys and girls, I converse more with the people on this site then I do with certain relations in my own family.
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Post by yanmacca on Dec 18, 2015 15:08:11 GMT
Imagine if Trump gets elected president and Boris Johnston becomes the prime minister, it doesn’t bare thinking about, but it is worrying that it may happen, and god help us all.
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Post by dave on Dec 18, 2015 18:24:09 GMT
Mac See ya in Montana!
Yan I imagine the US has more English/British kin than any other nation. Germany and Ireland would be close seconds I bet. Regards Dave
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Post by Beth on Dec 18, 2015 18:52:11 GMT
Imagine if Trump gets elected president and Boris Johnston becomes the prime minister, it doesn’t bare thinking about, but it is worrying that it may happen, and god help us all. You have to add Putin to the mix. He thinks Trump is bright and talented after all. Trump's response was along the line of Putin is at least a leader unlike what we have" I bet he hasn't a clue about what Putin has been doing.
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Post by yanmacca on Dec 18, 2015 19:22:54 GMT
Beth Putin thinks he’s James Bond, and he can I suppose if he wants to, but he is also a dangerous Bond and wants pay back over the sanctions imposed on him by the west, that’s why he is in Syria, to wind every one up.
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Post by yanmacca on Dec 18, 2015 19:23:26 GMT
Hey are you all meeting in Montana?
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Post by Beth on Dec 19, 2015 0:17:58 GMT
Beth Putin thinks he’s James Bond, and he can I suppose if he wants to, but he is also a dangerous Bond and wants pay back over the sanctions imposed on him by the west, that’s why he is in Syria, to wind every one up. Putin is a psychotic James Bond on meth. Can you imagine a conference with Putin, Trump, Le Pen and perhaps someone from BNP negotiating the world's future?
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