Klarinet Archive - Posting 000168.txt from 2001/09

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Ed Lacy`s Ancestry
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:49:13 -0400

Ed Lacy says:

>By the way, Tony, when those Lacys came from France to England about 1066,
>one of them was favored by William the Conqueror with the lordship of large
>areas around the town of Pontefract, which is near Wakefield. Do you have
>connections with that area?

So, Ed Lacy is a henchman of the invading Normans is he? What a dire shock
then for my wife to discover that her pharmacist at the local chemist shop
is also one of the same - a Mrs Lacy!. He also asks me of my origins.

My origins are indeed from Yorkshire - The White Rose County. There are two,
Johannes de Wakfeld, and Willelmus Waykfeld mentioned in the Poll Tax of
Yorkshire in 1379, but somewhere along the line, a male member decided to up
and away to the other side of the Pennine Chain of hills, and settle in
Warrington (where I was born) in Lancashire - The Red (rival) Rose County.
Within my mother`s direct line of descendancy is the Scottish 'McNaughton',
so I too could at some stage, it hasn`t happened yet, create some desire to
dress the way 'they' dress north of the border, not to mention taking up the
instrument of war which is a topic of Bill Wright`s at the moment.

But it was non other than Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) who was a
founder of New Zealand and Antipodean colonisation. And we all know what
that means. He was born in London, the son of a farmer, and was transported
in 1827 after being found guilty of abduction. But he did form the N.Z.
Association in 1837 and was also a founder of Canterbury N.Z.

Well you did ask Ed.

Ed, I`ve got an alternative to you hiring once you are over here. Bring your
own Alto with you, and I can look after it for you whilst you are up North.
How does that sound? I am only 2 miles from Heathrow Airport, so arranging
to meet you won`t be any problem. You still have to bring it with you of
course, and then take it back after wards. I might even abduct you, feed and
generally welcome you to this wonderful country of ours. Only if you arrive
at a reasonable time of day tho`. It`s a thought anyway. Get back to me.

I hope we haven`t bored other listers too much with all this useless
information.
Apologies if we have.

Tony W.

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