To: Ken Nelson Hi Ken, Long time no hear from, eh? I have seen your posts in one of my lists (CORNISH-L or [email protected]?), so forgive me if I've repeated something you have already seen, but just in case you haven't I thought I'd send you this post about Rev. Billy BRAY. Wasn't he yours? I searched some of your old emails, but didn't see the Billy BRAY reference, so maybe he was someone else's BRAY. Anyway, here is the post that was on the CORNISH-L list: Hope all is well with you, Marianne Gilbert Phoenix, AZ >Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 02:49:00 -0800 (PST) >Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:02 +0100 >From: Ernest Hamley <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >Organization: Hamley, Hambly & Hamlyn FHS (International) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Ken Trevathan <[email protected]> >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Cornish Joke - and Follow-up! >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/7258 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Ken - Hello! > >I rather liked your anecdote - though its a bit non-rootsweb of course >and one just wonders how a CORNISH joke got such a good quoting in New >Hampshire Gazette - presumambly far away in the States! > >Reminded one of a not disimilar short one about famed BILLY BRAY Cornish >evangelistic Methodist tin-mining preacher who reportedly proclaimed in >one of his fiery sermons - but I'm loosely quoting it from memory now... > ><If the Devil put un in a Barrel, ee'd shout <Hallelujah> through the >bung hole!> <g> > >Good wishes, you might find more from that mine of tit-bits... > >Yrs ERNEST (Hamley) Goons 64A and CFHS 5282 etc. HAMLEY FAMILY HISTORY >SOCIETY (International) and always looking for that name and 14 variants