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Mike ShafferSun Dec-29-19 05:30 PM
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From memory the Sacketts came out of the fens. So, are they descended from the Iceni? And if so, are they then descended from Bouadicea? If so, that would be even more awesome. She was described as tall with long red hair and fierce.

“In stature she was very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace; and she wore a tunic of divers colours over which a thick mantle was fastened with a brooch. This was her invariable attire.”

Tawny being a reddish brown. There is a statue of her with her daughters in a chariot near Big Ben in London...close to Parliament.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  

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Les Down UnderSun Dec-29-19 07:05 PM
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From Sackett Companion.

"But Ivo of the Fens was not of these (Normans), being a Celt of ancient line. He wedded Megan, a maid of Talybont in Wales, who was to become the mother of Barnabas. Ivo had won her fair, rescuing her from irates in the western isles. And she, the fairest maid in all the isles, was of the blood of Nial."
This Wikipedia site lists the Iceni as a Celtic tribe so your proposition is likely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Celtic_peoples_and_tribes#Britain_Proper_(Britannia_Propria)

Les
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?


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The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.



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Mike ShafferSun Dec-29-19 09:51 PM
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Excellent! Thanks, Les

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Mike ShafferSat Feb-08-20 02:32 PM
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Should probably mention that my ex has or had long auburn hair, is tall and was very athletic In her youth, very flexible, agile, but slow afoot. She is descended from the Hook peninsula on her paternal side and from just outside of Dublin on her maternal side. Folks would naturally stare And car horns would sound at her walk on the sidewalk. A very rare specimen, she is more likely to slay you verbally than physically...by her choice. A very intelligent woman who hates to read fiction. She worked at and retired from a Florida college. She didn’t teach...she had a world of patience with our sons, but lord help anyone else. She looks better in her late sixties than most twenty year olds. Her parents were quite normal, but it was her Mom who kept her in line. Nobody messed with Miss Mary.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

  

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