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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Finley 1 on Saturday 06 June 20 15:16 BST (UK)
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Well carrying on filling out further along the line... just to pass this awful time..
I found that my
John Hacket aka Hackwood 1645 Leicestershire was married to a lady named Ann Shaxpeer
WELL .... at first carried on researching in the usual way..
but before I knew it ... what with GREEN and Blue HINTS and Family Trees --- plus my diligent research on Fam Search and FindMyPast etc.. I couldnt imagine where this was leading.
(well I could but thought better not to !! as yet)
SO
I ensured all the darn GREEN potentials are off --- we do have that choice, sometimes I switch them on as a comparison to my own deductions.. (it doesnt often help -- but sometimes) The blue hints are NOT switch offable by the looks of things..
and the various trees with their variety of information are nothing but a be-fuddling mess...
YET of course there is always the odd one that is excellent and has researched fully and has the relevant documents..
I have worn Fam search and FindMyPast Free Reg etc etc out.. Nobody else has been able to access them today.. I know cos I decided to try --- once more ... 6 hours ago..
h a ha ha...
So IS The Bard a rellie on not... if so it is distant.. but for me I think.. I would be pleased... I cant wait to catch up with him and have a word or two... :) :) :)
xin
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The Shakespeare's were Warwickshire born & bred going back to the Reign of Henry V111.
If he's a rellie you would have to go back to when they were shaking spears.
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yep :) Jim --- I get that :)
its all good fun..
xin
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As long as it's as you like it & not much ado about nothing.
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You are too good for me to respond --- to that one :) I dont know me head from me 'Bottom' :) :)
(i have filed them for Ron)
xin
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Oh puck it !
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
xin
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All's well that ends well that's what I say.
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too clever x 4 me
xin
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She must have been from the orthographically challenged branch of the family.
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ooooo
now that's a big word... I had to google it ::) and yep I agree. d e f i n i t e l y :) :)
xin
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She must have been from the orthographically challenged branch of the family.
Wikipedia has a whole article on the spelling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_name) which includes this quote:
Hunter noted that "there has been endless variety in the form in which this name has been written." He criticised Malone and Steevens, writing that "in an evil hour they agreed, for no apparent reason, to abolish the e in the first syllable." Hunter argued that there were probably two pronunciations of the name, a Warwickshire version and a London version, so that "the poet himself might be called by his honest neighbours at Stratford and Shottery, Mr. Shaxper, while his friends in London honoured him, as we know historically they did, with the more stately name of Shakespeare."