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Re: Alexanders and other family names.



Hi Penny,

LOL!!! I enjoy a good pun! and that was definitely a good one! :):)

Rachel and I are home now and both doing as well as can be 
expected.  Rachel, of course, is doing much better than her mother :):) and 
it is a delight to have a daughter! :)

Margaret (milamba)


>Congratulations on a crowning achievement, Margaret!
>I'm sorry.  I couldn't help it.  Puns come from the
>other side of the family.  Sons are great, but there's
>something about having a daughter that is really
>super-special.  (And I always thought I wanted just
>lots of sons.)  A friend of my mother's gave me this
>old saw when I had mine, author unknown:
>
>      A son is a son 'til he takes him a wife.
>      A daughter's a daughter for all of her life.
>
>I don't make any claims to knowing how true that is
>since none of mine have married yet, damn it, but it's
>a nice thought. --  Penny
>
>
>
>--- Jean <sinead@labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
> >  Hi Charlotte.  Sinclairs , like many families, do
> > seem to have recurring
> > patterns of names.  We have an Alexander John George
> > in our youngest level,
> > Andrew William, in the same, James Clarence, Andrew
> > John George, two Jeans
> > - one Elisabeth and one Marjorie; and this is only
> > one branch from the
> > Lappan family. Sure we have plenty of other names
> > but these classics do
> > seem to recur. For some reason I thought there were
> > no other Jean Marjorie
> > Sinclairs until I started to read the  family trees.
> > Hmmm. That one went
> > out the window promptly.
> >
> > BY THE WAY - FORGIVE ME SHOUTING  -  Milamba (
> > Margaret) had her daughter
> > Rachel Sinclair Stokes at 12.07pm October 8th 1999.
> > In the tradition of her
> > mother and brother she has the BIGGEST eyes.
> > (Wouldn't guess I am proud
> > grandmother, would you?)
> > Jean Sinclair Stokes.
> > At 10:00  7/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried to keep an account of the
> > Alexanders in this family(both
> > Sin
> > >& StC.)?  There seem to be at least one in every
> > generation of every banch.
> > >Our particular Alexander came to Virginia in
> > 1696/98(some accounts differ).
> > >We know that he left from Glasgow but as far as I
> > know that is as far as we
> > >get with him, although lord knows we do keep track
> > of the offspring since
> > >then.  Thanks in no small part to the unending work
> > of Jean Grigsby.  We
> > are,
> > >however missing one on this side of the Atlantic.
> > My g.uncle James Meador
> > >StClair, b.March 17, 1878, Fayette Co. W.Va. , left
> > Eggleston Va. at the
> > turn
> > >of the century for parts west.  His last known
> > location was Coloma, Ca. in
> > >the 19teens.  If anyone has info about either Alex.
> > or Uncle Jim I would
> > love
> > >to hear from you.  Thank all of you again for the
> > joy of reading about our
> > >family even the squabbles are better than most!  A
> > special thanks to Niven,
> > >who I am sure should be designated as a family
> > treasure, for helping me
> > >continue to look for the good.   Charlotte Gellis
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>
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