"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Kathy"
No need to guess, I know the family came from Devon.


My wife and all her family "knew" their family came from Norway three/four
generation back. Not so, Carlisle more like, certainly up that way but
with nothing in the records offices up there it's difficult to go any
further. What I did find was that two generations of the family didn't
know their fathers and one lost their mother too whilst very young which
is probably where the myth came from.


No, this is not a myth, it's fact.

Our family myth was that Great Uncle Arthur went to Australia, made a
fortune, owned land, died at Gallipoli and left it all to an Australian
girlfriend. Not so. He died at Calais and owned nothing.

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Kathy