This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …
Ten Odd Names from My Family History
(direct relationship where known)
- John Crotehole (my 12th great-grandfather)
- Thomas Cuckow
- Brothers Absalom, Israel & Jabez Hicks, and their grandfather Farclay Hicks (Jabez Hicks was my great-great-grandfather, and Farclay my 4th great-grandfather)
- Spicer Marshall
- Turner Marshall
- Emma Mouser
- Langman Murfet (my 6th great-grandfather)
- Willson Gates Nowers (my 3rd great-uncle; right)
- Marrianna Odeyarne (my 9th great-grandmother)
- Philip Wildboar