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Jerushabeth! I'll be happy for weeks. With Rechabina hot on her heels ... fantastic.
I find Younger William a tad unsettling. My grandmother's youngest brother was Robert, and only after that generation were all dead did I discover that actually the first son in the family had been Robert, and died when he was ten. Then followed John, Edward, Florence and finally Robert. I find that unsettling - surely it must have been difficult for the parents to see him as a person in his own right? (Not that he was scarred; he was a most hilarious old darling.) But maybe Younger William had a similar history? Or, along the lines of Sara, perhaps it's a surname.
The other standout is Radway St John. So close to Ottery St Catchpole ...
I find Younger William a tad unsettling. My grandmother's youngest brother was Robert, and only after that generation were all dead did I discover that actually the first son in the family had been Robert, and died when he was ten. Then followed John, Edward, Florence and finally Robert. I find that unsettling - surely it must have been difficult for the parents to see him as a person in his own right? (Not that he was scarred; he was a most hilarious old darling.) But maybe Younger William had a similar history? Or, along the lines of Sara, perhaps it's a surname.
The other standout is Radway St John. So close to Ottery St Catchpole ...
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