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Re: Mary Smith - knocker upper
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 17 July 19 16:26 BST (UK) »
"The humbler my ancestors were the prouder I am  of them"

Sort of reverse snobbery, then.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Mary Smith - knocker upper
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 17 July 19 16:31 BST (UK) »
I like that!
"Ever so 'umble. Mr Copperfield"   
(family motto of the Heap family?)
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Re: Mary Smith - knocker upper
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 17 July 19 17:09 BST (UK) »
The horrible scheming Uriah Heep.
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Re: Mary Smith - knocker upper
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 17 July 19 18:19 BST (UK) »
Viktoria, I love comments that start 'You are so right Mart'.  I tried so hard during my career to teach that to the managers.

Your comment sounds like something from the Monty Python 'Four Yorkshirmen' sketch.  "Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us."

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https://genius.com/Monty-python-four-yorkshiremen-live-lyrics

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Re: Mary Smith - knocker upper
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 17 July 19 19:56 BST (UK) »
I know I go on about it but it never ceases to amaze me that I am  just one generation removed from such poverty and squalor( you would  think if you saw my kitchen at the moment I was not removed at all)
Grandparents born in 1860’s,parents 1890’s me 1937.
Yet Grandma was a very clean , organised woman.
Mum likewise.
Knew how to set a complicated tea table etc and yet there was nothing so grand in those hovels in Angel Meadow and surrounding streets.
Thanks for the link Mart.
Off to wash up,and tidy the kitchen.
Viktoria.

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