Ten Things: December

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)

  1. John Crotehole (my 12th great-grandfather)
  2. Thomas Cuckow
  3. Brothers Absalom, Israel & Jabez Hicks, and their grandfather Farclay Hicks (Jabez Hicks was my great-great-grandfather, and Farclay my 4th great-grandfather)
  4. Spicer Marshall
  5. Turner Marshall
  6. Emma Mouser
  7. Langman Murfet (my 6th great-grandfather)
  8. Willson Gates Nowers (my 3rd great-uncle; right)
  9. Marrianna Odeyarne (my 9th great-grandmother)
  10. Philip Wildboar