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We have to remember that not many children attended school or only attended school until the age of eleven and even before hat age they would be out in the fields helping with the harvest of, etc.

Another thing to remember is that church vicars, padres, preachers, etc., moved away from the birth places to give guidance in other parishes and did not know the then very strong local dialects.  When I was younger, when Television reception had not reached every place in Britain,  I went to a village only two miles from the place I lived in and couldn't understand a word they were saying !!!!

Additionally when I was growing up practically every word, given name and surname,  was given the local colloquial "ee" on the end doggie, Charles/Charlie,  surname Cram = Crammie., etc.  The younger generation might have been fed up of having to correct other people's pronunciation of their surname that they agreed to change it to accommodate the locals.

The origin (below) states it could have been a Norman word and the Normans were French - many French verbs and other names end in the sound "ee" , e.g. "ez", "et"

It will be interesting to see what other chatters think.


SURNAME:  Brockett
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bro(c)ket, a term denoting a stag in its second year with its first horns (diminutive of Old French brock), probably applied as a nickname.

Rana, I only wish my Influenza in January 2020 resolved successfully. The flu went, but it was followed by a body inflammatory rash taking 2 years to calm and had complications ever since.

I've been on a specialised diet for several years to calm the inflammation naturally and provide all the high nutrient demands for the GI system and my body.

The next Consultant will be the third.
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One of the things noticed in filed Reports are varying Scientific opinions regarding differing outcomes in people. This is one mentioning elevated IgG4.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10222767/#:~:text=There%20is%20now%20compelling%20evidence,received%20mRNA%20vaccinations%20before%20becoming

I'm extremely sorry (and sad) that you are still suffering from an invasive virus.   
The longest bout of 'flu that I know of was an old aunt of my late OH and she had winter influenza that lasted six months !!

One of my sons had attacks of measles five times and was always being  "off colour" until aged 24 years old when he had his tonsils out and living measles virus was detected by the pathology department.  He never suffered measles again.

I'm not up to date with current bodies who have government research facilities but once upon a time British scientists gave their best assessment of what new wave of virus would arrive on British shores from Asia, which is where most annual virus emerge from.   Some years they miss the mark completely and we have stocks of useless medications.

Coincidentally I've just skipped over a newspaper headline that suggested if a person had
 an ancient DNA then they were susceptible to certain virus.

Best Wishes for a speedy conclusion to your ailments and to good health
Rena

If this report had been published earlier when we were all stressed about the Covid virus we would possibly have dismissed the rigorous testing procedure and demanded we needed the vaccine immediately.   Usually, when a foreign produced medicine is introduced to the world, it takes about five years for the UK to test it, even if every other country has already done their tests, we need to do ours too.  I think the exceptions were the Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu.

I've only had one type of flu, (see link below)when even my hair hurt and haven't had a sniffle since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

We have to look at the then current law, which was:-

"Insolvent debtors were individuals unable to pay their debts. Only after 1861 could insolvent debtors apply for bankruptcy."

He'd obviously "hidden" his assets abroad where he thought the long arm of the law couldn't reach
him.

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The American civil war affected European shipping,  the North Americans blockaded the southern American ports.  My Glaswegian gt. grandfather lost his business due to lost sales.  His creditors held a meeting and decided  that my gt. grandfather was a long term well respected trader.  They apportioned tasks to each creditor. Some pursued bad creditors that my gt. grandfather had.  I recall one woman had bought an £11. book 8 years previously and when the creditors wrote to request payment she sent the book back saying she didn't want it anyway.

When I was researching ancestral mariners, I discovered some newspaper adverts, where the owner/captain of a ship would advertise his ship, his destination and that he would be in "X" pub/teahouse at a certain time on a certain date to take requests to carry cargo ..... oh, and the adverts stated what size canon the ship had for protection (against pirates)

In case anyone is wondering:-

"Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited is in turn owned by FGP Topco Limited, a consortium owned and led by the infrastructure specialist Ferrovial S.A. (25.00%), Qatar Investment Authority (20.00%), Caisse de Dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) (12.62%), GIC (11.20%), Australian Retirement Trust (11.18%), China Investment "