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Topic: What is your legacy? (Read 142 times)
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genjen
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Amelia Alice
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Following my mother's recent death and having seen some members of my family for the first time in many years, I have found myself looking at them and at myself, working out what each of us inherited from our parents and grandparents. I'm not talking about property here. I mean which bits of my appearance and character came from whom.
So if I tell you mine, will you do the same with yours?
From my father, I have my red hair, fair skin and very strong teeth, which is a mercy as I fear the dentist every bit as much as dad did. I share his love of language, have the same tendency to be just a little pedantic and am extremely intolerant of lazy grammar, punctuation and pronunciation. Like my father, I have to be very careful what I read in public as one funny line can reduce me to fits of embarrassing and tearful giggles for a very long time.( never read Bill Bryson on a train) When I was younger, I used to wonder why my father would always leave the room, muttering about sentimental drivel, if any film or play became too much of a tear jerker. I do exactly the same thing and now understand that it is to do with not allowing anyone to see me being affected by too much emotion. I have always lacked ambition and direction. Thanks for that, dad!
From my mother - my physical build. From her mother, my face. Like my mum, I have the catering gene and an almost uncontrollable need to feed anyone who comes within the limits of my personal radar. Unlike her, but very like my father, I also have the enjoyment of good food, so you can imagine the constant struggle I have with the demon diet. I have her passion for crossword puzzles - in fact, any word based puzzles will do. My mother's very competitive nature has completely passed by me . Or has it? Maybe the reason I don't like competition is that, like her, I can't bear to be beaten and that, unlike her, I don't cheat. I could have my mother's quick temper but because I have my father's dislike of conflict, I tend to keep the potentially sharp tongue under control.
From both of them, I have a love of literature and music, though my mother would always argue that my choice of listening didn't qualify as real music.
From my dad, an urge to travel, balanced by my mother's very real need to come home.
From my dad - a compulsion to delve into family history, which is how I know that like my 2 x great grandmother ( maternal) I know how to enjoy a drink or two.
Enough about me. Now it's your turn.
Jen
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Essex: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
N.E.Scotland: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NR Yorks: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
Westmorland: Dickenson, Jackson Ewbank Waller
Staffs: White Knight
Surrey: Knight
Durham: Smith
Hants: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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