This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3BAD6BD92B91 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi guys! I have done a very, very brave thing (considering that my French is so weak) and joined the French mailing list! I received over 150 messages from this LIST <today, my first day.> Awhug!!!! So overwhelming!!! I think that the French have one LIST for the whole country!!!!!! I read French VERY SLOWLY--LABORIOUSLY SLOW!!! (I understand spoken French at a two year old level, to give you an idea of how bad I am); but I have received this forwarded message AND I AM SO EXICTED!!! I just wanted to pass it on! I will keep you informed about what I learn. Carole --------------3BAD6BD92B91 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <3619B271.4F76@midohio.net> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 01:02:21 -0500 From: malisiak@midohio.net Reply-To: malisiak@midohio.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Ward <mjward@hidden-knowledge.com> Subject: Re: Odard References: <3618E449.433AB8DE@hidden-knowledge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mike, I am so excited that you have info on Odard. And you write in English! Yea!! :-))) When I saw Wadard's name on the list of warriors who went with Wm the Conqueror, I was so excited. Then I saw that Wadard was a tenet of the Bishop of Bayeux--not our Odard, who was a tenet of Hugh Lupus, in Cheshire, a palatine county. I cannot claim to have researched my family back so far--it was other Dutton's and ancestors who did all the research. Peter Leycester, baronet, published "Leycester's Historical Antiquities," 1673; and Gilbert Cope, "Genealogy of the Dutton Family," 1871, who has linked my ancestors to Odard, Lord of Dutton. But, the problem is that we have two fathers for Odard and know nothing about Odard before he came to England. Odard is listed in the Domesday Book and we trace our ancestors to him. I would be eternally grateful for any information that you can share about Odard. I hope that this Odard, yours and mine, are the same Odard. Looking forward to hearing from you and any info that you can pass on to us, Carole Dutton Malisiak ************** Mike Ward wrote: > Hi, I missed your original post but saw jflanguy's comments in > soc.genealogy.medieval ... The notes I have on Odard are that > he was one of the witnesses of some early documents reprinted in > an Anglo-Norman collection (of the period 1000-1200). I have noted > him originally because of some possible confusion with Wadard, whose > background I was researching. This may or may not be of any help. > > I am truly impressed you have gone back that far! Does Odard have > descendants in England that you have tied to? > > Michael Ward > mjward@hidden-knowledge.com --------------3BAD6BD92B91--