And a distant relation of that WOODVILLE has Irish connections - although not quite with Fermanagh (but close). I wrote a blog piece about her some time ago: http://sharonoddiebrown.blogspot.ca/2013/09/email-serendipity.html Enjoy, Sharon Sharon Oddie Brown, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada. History Project: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/ On 23/03/2015 2:33 PM, Eilish via wrote: > Ironically, I am currently reading The White Queen, about Elizabeth > Woodville and her husband King Edward, Richard's older brother. Richard > has just been married off to a Neville. Prior to that I read The Red > Queen, which was about Margaret Beauford and the Lancaster side. > Phillipa Gregory wrote these books -- they are very readable, and > although novelized, she is a historian with an interest in the > Plantagenets and the Tudors so she decided to flesh out the bones so to > speak. I saw a BBC doc when they dug up the bones of Richard in a > carpark ( unbelievable!) and put him together again. How amazing his > descendant was a cabinet maker who could make his coffin. Still, that > guy got his family tree done for free! Guess I am not a descendant of > any Yorkist. > > Eilish > > > On 23/03/2015 6:26 PM, Dee Byster-Graham via wrote: >> Who is Josephine Tey? >> Have not read any books by this person. >> Presuming she is an author - is her work historically accurate and readable? >> If so, shall search her out in the library. >> >> Dee. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of caiside via >> Sent: Monday, 23 March 2015 9:28 AM >> To: Barry Graham; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com; Viola Wiggins; Dave H >> Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Richard III >> >> Thanks, I'll look for it. I always enjoyed Josephine Tey. >> >> >> On 3/22/15 7:04 PM, Barry Graham wrote: >>>> On 3/22/15 3:27 PM, Viola Wiggins wrote: >>>>> He was not quite the baddie he has been made out to be. But the >>>>> only version we know was written by his enemies. Now research shows >>>>> him in a different light. >>> Read "The Daughter of Time". >>> A detective novel by Josephine Tey. >>> Involves research into Richard III and the history written by the Tudors. >>> >>> >>> >> ================================== >> >> https://www.google.ie/ >> ================================== >> http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ================================== >> >> https://www.google.ie/ >> ================================== >> http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message