Great! I just published a ghost story from the Johns family in Wales on my web site. -- Susan May Leslie wrote: > Hello to all of you who expressed an interest in the story I mentioned, > I have now got the book again. I shall try to give a brief outline of it > It is called "Robergia-a Story of Old England by Richard Y. > COOK,privately printed in Philadelphia 1905.(50 copies printed) It was > written in Bayreuth,where he and his wife were attending Wagner > operas.Meant for the grandchildren, it was a story that "could" have > happened, about a little girl aged twelve, in a grim old castle in 1194. > She was called Robergia de BOURDON, and her father Simon had been four > years away with King Richard the Lionheart,and her mother Elfrida of > Kent,heiress of Saxon owner of castle and land,had been dead for a year. > Her father returned,and the next year he died, stating in his will she > should marry a cousin Francis de Bourdon, of Bayeux. Robergia had a > church built, (Headcorn) and on the day it was consecrated, she had a > parchnent sealed in a lead box and concealed in the church.She had two > sons, Simon and Richard,and she died 1220. > Then Richard Y.COOK and his wife, Lavinia BORDEN went to England and > visited the church. There is quite a long lead up to the discovery of > the parchment behind a loose stone in the wall, He is guided to it by a > strange presence which they later thought might only have been a shaft > of moonlight etc, very eerie. The parchment gives Robergia's story and > they wrote it down very quickly, for the words faded before their eyes. > At the end of the book there are copies of BORDEN Wills and a > description of the Church. > I know I haven't done justice to the charming story. There should be > copies in America as it was pblished there and the descendants of > Richard who emigrated should have it somewhere. > Best Wishes > May > > -- > May Leslie at Whangarei NZ > mayles@xtra.co.nz -- Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE, BORDEN & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com - please join us! Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew.