I'm going off topic here a little, but I did here funny story about Chester's Racecourse the Roodee: 'The first recorded race at the 'Roodee Fields' was held on February 9th 1539, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, with the consent of Chester's Lord Mayor, Henry Gee (whose surname gave rise to the 'gee-gees' nick name for racehorses).' And, I suppose 'gee-up' GAY Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire gayandmike.co.uk tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk ashtongrammar.co.uk www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm

See the point about gee gees but there are so many people around here with that name that you would have to add an awful lot of gees to them - perhaps a whole race meeting of them and then some? Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: <VictorOly@aol.com> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Racecourses and cathedrals > I'm going off topic here a little, but I did here funny story about > Chester's Racecourse the Roodee: > > 'The first recorded race at the 'Roodee Fields' was held on February 9th > 1539, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, with the consent of Chester's Lord > Mayor, Henry Gee (whose surname gave rise to the 'gee-gees' nick name for > racehorses).' > > And, I suppose 'gee-up' > > GAY > > > > Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire > gayandmike.co.uk > tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk > ashtongrammar.co.uk > www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk > www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: - Release Date: <unknown> > >