----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Wilkes" <JeremyWilkes@compuserve.com> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: [SoG] Change of name | He quotes a similar story to the opposite effect: "the head of an Oxford | college, in far-off days when such appointments were subject to the | condition of celibacy, astonished the fellows of his society by announcing | his marriage and confronting them with a clause in a local Canal Act which | gave him statutory sanction." Sounds like somebody had a propensity for plays on words - Ca(r)nal Act - <vbg> Chris