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MM Links August 2011 Week 4
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This is 'King Jim' back to challenge you once again.
My last week has come (not too soon I hear you say), and it’s been quite an experience. However it means I will be able to return and spend more time on one of my major interests, Genealogy. I had a very proud Scots mother and an equally proud English father. I spent most of my childhood holidays in Scotland and knew my mother’s side of the family far more than my father’s. But this was balanced by the fact that I lived in England and it meant that I was pulled both ways when asked where my loyalties lay. I really was undecided whether I was Scots with a splash of English, or vice versa.
My last week has come (not too soon I hear you say), and it’s been quite an experience. However it means I will be able to return and spend more time on one of my major interests, Genealogy. I had a very proud Scots mother and an equally proud English father. I spent most of my childhood holidays in Scotland and knew my mother’s side of the family far more than my father’s. But this was balanced by the fact that I lived in England and it meant that I was pulled both ways when asked where my loyalties lay. I really was undecided whether I was Scots with a splash of English, or vice versa.
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My mother used to regale us with lots of stories about famous and not so famous, family members. One was the film actress Gene Tierney who was a second cousin to my mother. The other was someone she called affectionately ‘Mad Corrigan’ who was an early aviator and a mechanic of Charles Lindbergh. This led me to start researching into the family history a lot further. I discovered that this ‘mad Corrigan’ was indeed a very famous man in America who was known as Douglas ‘Wrong way’ Corrigan. Amongst all his various exploits, such as flying upside down along the length of the Rockies, for a bet, was that he flew solo across the Atlantic in 1938 after assuring the authorities that he was just taking his plane west to California. Hence the epithet ‘wrong way’. On landing in Ireland he was greeted by the Irish President, Dr Douglas Hyde. The US Navy then sent a ship to collect him and his plane to return to the US where he was accorded a bigger tickertape welcome than Lindbergh himself.
My Mother’s family had settled in Bannockburn. Her father, a coal miner had moved there from Ayrshire to find work. Intrigued by these Ayrshire origins, I researched further, and was surprised to find that he had married into an Irish family who had themselves arrived in Ayrshire from Armagh, to escape the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine. The more I looked, the more interesting it became. The connection with Tierney and Corrigan began to unfold. Now another element was thrown into the equation concerning my identity, Ireland. I have been studying the genealogy of my family for a number of years now. I have found it extremely rewarding unlocking the mysteries of my ancestry. It somehow seems to have given me a sense of continuity but the best thing that came out of it for me was a sense of fulfilment. I am no longer torn between the English and Scots part of me. I can now proudly answer on all those forms that ask your Nationality........I am British.
My Mother’s family had settled in Bannockburn. Her father, a coal miner had moved there from Ayrshire to find work. Intrigued by these Ayrshire origins, I researched further, and was surprised to find that he had married into an Irish family who had themselves arrived in Ayrshire from Armagh, to escape the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine. The more I looked, the more interesting it became. The connection with Tierney and Corrigan began to unfold. Now another element was thrown into the equation concerning my identity, Ireland. I have been studying the genealogy of my family for a number of years now. I have found it extremely rewarding unlocking the mysteries of my ancestry. It somehow seems to have given me a sense of continuity but the best thing that came out of it for me was a sense of fulfilment. I am no longer torn between the English and Scots part of me. I can now proudly answer on all those forms that ask your Nationality........I am British.
According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!
Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
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