I am a Scot. I live in Switzerland have a farm in France and a flat in
London, you can see the
farm under photos in Johns site. I have attended the fete of St Clair and
carried the 1000 year
old bones of Clare through the streets of St Clair-sur-Epte. I wrote a
report for the discussion
list two years ago. I am also known as Privateers@Privateers.org and
Sinclair@sinclair.ch .
You family has covered our family name with Glory all nine generations they
deserve more
than 800 words. My dear friend Laurel will be overjoyed with contributions
of American
connections. There are two Midshipmen Sinclair who drowned, one at Liverpool
Clare himself was an Englishman. Sin is Gaelic abbreviation for Saint St is
French. Beverley
appears also as a prenom on the Sinclair side of your family.
More will follow
.
Votre Français est impeccable.(Your French is impeccable)
Veuillez agréer mes salutations distinguées
-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Spangler <esdemio@worldnet.att.net>
To: Sinclair Digest <sinclair@matrix.net>
Date: 05 June 2001 17:00
Subject: Wallis Warfield Simpson
>Is not Bon Ton, rather a blot. A better family connection for me, is
>that Arthur Scinclair married Sarah (Sally Short) Kennon, daughter of
>Colonel Richard Kennon. From that family comes Captain Beverley Kennon,
>who was married to Britannia Wellington Peters. She was grandaughter of
>Martha Custis Washington, wife of George Washington. Captain Kennon was
>station commander at the Washington Navy Yard when they were test firing
>one of Dahlgren's new, thinner metal barrel guns and the thing exploded,
>killing not only Captain Kennon, but the Secretary of Navy and a senator
>(one was named Slidell). Captain Kennon's son, by his first marriage was
>LT Beverley Kennon who was in the Battle of New Orleans and who figures
>in the write ups of the battle. He was also interested in the new idea
>of torpedoes, which were not the torpedo of today, but rather a tethered
>mine, or sometimes an explosive device stuck on the side of a vessel and
>exploded. Beverley, by the way is a surname. Sally
>
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