--part1_6f.1105f8db.27b9182e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Morning all, This came up on a list I have just joined.....I have said I think it is a dry river bed in India or Africa and also I seem to remember a song about driving by the waddy....possibly Mississipi or the Everglades in Florida. I am sure that there are plenty of people on Northern who can give me, and / or the lady enquiring, the correct answer. I have told her I am forwarding her mail to you. Maggie In a very dull, soggy but mild Essex --part1_6f.1105f8db.27b9182e_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <BACKTOTHEPAST-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-ye04.mx.aol.com (rly-ye04.mail.aol.com [172.18.151.201]) by air-ye01.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:08:44 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-ye04.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:08:07 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f1C47Vb06206; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:07:31 -0800 Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:07:31 -0800 X-Original-Sender: shirlgar@fnbnet.net Sun Feb 11 20:07:31 2001 Message-ID: <004201c094ba$78345f60$b300f2d0@shirlgar> From: "Shirley Garcia" <shirlgar@fnbnet.net> Old-To: <BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:10:12 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [BackToThePast] Waddy Resent-Message-ID: <S0lixC.A.xgB.DG2h6@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/443 X-Loop: BACKTOTHEPAST-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: BACKTOTHEPAST-L-request@rootsweb.com Hello List, Lately I have been re-reading a copy of an old journal that one of my early ancestors wrote and he uses the word "waddy" several times. I have seen reference to this same word in other old writings.The word is sometimes spelled waddie. I can't find that word in any dictionary new or old. In the context it was written I believe it to mean "cowboy" or "stockman" as we know the term today. It seems like I read somewhere that the word "cowboy" was coined in the early "B" western type picture shows in the 1920-1930's. I have certainly never seen that word in print from earlier times, like around or before 1900. Does anyone out there care to comment on this, am I wrong to think the word waddy means something else besides cowboy? Shirley in TX ==== BACKTOTHEPAST Mailing List ==== Be sure to check out the web site that goes with this page at:http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~backtothepast/ --part1_6f.1105f8db.27b9182e_boundary--