If you google "with nine times nine" (in quotes) you get a lot of mentions in various sources of toasts being drunk or cheers being given "with nine times nine" - the context seeming to imply "with enthusiasm". Clare Tom Hill wrote: > It might be a corruption of a Biblical principle with regard to forgiveness. > Disciples asked how many times must they forgive an offender if pardon is > sought; seven ? > Jesus replied 70 x 7, meaning as many as are needed. > It might be something like that as religious and Biblical knowledge coloured > their lives & thinking from the 1840s when Wesley began to minister. John > Wesley visited Cornwall thirty-two times between 1743 to 1787. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Relph" <peter@relph.org> > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:28 AM > Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] West Briton 19 Sept, 1851 BMDs:Toasts > > >> I trust that 'nine times nine' doesn't mean 81 toasts, does anyone know the >> significance of it? (In a Cornish-Gen context of course). Possibly an >> interminable number of 'hurrahs'? >> >> It would account for the 'feeling of goodwill' if it was toasts. >> >> Also thanks to Julia and transcribers for the information on the death of >> John Cornthwaite Bowman. >> >> Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> >> On the removal of the cloth, the toast of "The Queen" was drunk with nine >> times nine, the band playing the National Anthem. >> ....... The meeting was then adjourned, and everyone departed with a >> feeling of goodwill.] >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information >> http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3008 - Release Date: 07/15/10 > 19:35:00 > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have been reading the Google results with some fascination. As one Masonic site states, it appears to mean a clap " Then they hold the Left-hand Breast-high, and clap Nine Times with the Right". If the mood is not as festive, as some sites suggest, then they toast "three times three". Dawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clare Pascoe" <cbpascoe@yahoo.com.au> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] West Briton 19 Sept, 1851 BMDs:Toasts > If you google "with nine times nine" (in quotes) you get a lot of > mentions in various sources of toasts being drunk or cheers being given > "with nine times nine" - the context seeming to imply "with enthusiasm". > > Clare