Sorry! William FRENCH born 1771 Cowbit not 1798. Just in case anyone is following this! Thanks for your comment Peter! Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Atkinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Myths > Hello Ann, > I like this one, shows your father in law had a sense of humour. > > Peter > > > ======================================== > Message Received: Feb 16 2014, 10:09 AM > From: "Ann Widdowson" > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: [LIN] Myths > > I was hugely impressed years ago when I first started out researching > Family History. My late father in law announced that my husband had French > ancestry and that he was a quarter French. > > Later I discovered this to be very true - his grandmother was a Susanna > FRENCH! However, she had been born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire in 1793 and > her father, William FRENCH, had been born in Cowbit 1798. Plenty of > earlier FRENCH families in the area going back several hundred years - a > long way from France! So any French blood would have been much diluted by > 1891 when my father in law was born. > > Ann > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message