Happy Independence Day to all my friends across the pond! With love from the Mother Ship x
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Happy Independence Day to all my friends across the pond! With love from the Mother Ship x
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Off The Edge Gardening
Frilly skirts, I love ’em!
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Me too, mainly on flowers though 🙂
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Thank you my friend.
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😀
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Oh, I love it. Thank you. 🙂
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You are most welcome 🙂
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Love the “mother ship” idea!! 🙂 My family left it 385 years ago but at least I’ve been able to trace the journey, and know that the ‘dinghy’ (“shuttlecraft”?) was named the Arbella.
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How interesting, where abouts did they come from?
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Possibly the village of Sporle, in County Norfolk. Another ancestor lived in the village of Tickleford in Dorset during the reign of Henry VIII and his great-grandson also came over to America in Winthrop’s 1630 fleet, possibly on the same ship; his daughter married the son of the ancestor from Sporle. I also have a female-line ancestor who fought on the rebel 😉 side at the Battle of Lexington and his family originally came from the area of Kirkoswald in Carlisle in the 1500s. Sadly all the oldest church records there were destroyed so that’s as far back as I can go with that line.
My earliest British known ancestor was born about 1400.
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Wow, haven’t you done well, north, south and east! I love the name Tickleford 🙂
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