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Relatively Speaking Honey’s Mishap Esther Luek with Honey By Ka g a n Ho f f m a n T There on Greensprings Avenue, In a house not quite new, Lived a girl of five, Whose poor rag doll took a dive. It was a day That bullies came to play. They took her doll And ran away. To the outhouse Is where they ran. The little rag doll Tight in their hand. Into the waste they threw her so fast. The little girl cried While they stood and laughed. Into the house she ran for her mom Who tried to keep the little girl calm. Out she came with a great big stick And she fished the rag doll out of the pit. Kagan Hoffman is 13 years old and completed this poem as an English assignment in 8th grade at New Windsor Middle School, New Windsor, Maryland. He enjoys lacrosse and video games. His mother, a family historian, has gotten him interested in his family roots as well. Into the wash water The little doll went And so far away the bullies were sent. My great grandma didn’t think it was funny What those bullies did to Honey. She told this story until she was eighty-nine. Now with this poem, I’ve made it rhyme. 50 © Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009
Relative y Speaking A Visit to England By Ru t h Kn u d s o n Stumbling up the depot steps of my first British town, and bewildered at being hustled out of there because the letter “r” pronounced me a foreigner (probably Irish!), possibly concealing in all that untidy luggage a hostile bomb, I first visited this land of my forefathers in May of 1976. Sixty-one years old, five foot two, with gray eyes and hair, I was ready to rent a small car, then explore obscure spots from which ancestors had sent Lesans, Thompsons, and Winslows—as well as those named Allen, Andrews, Chilton, Dunlop, Grey, Houghton, Mason, Morse, Packard, Potter, Taylor, Van Swearingen, and Webster, to America. Night was falling. Taxis waited. One young man smiled a welcome at me and began carefully packing the bags into his vehicle. His mother helped me register at the hotel where she clerked. His father had written a genealogical history of their town. Tomorrow this young man would drive me up to Samlesbury, home of the Southworths and a Houghton bride. In 1623, Edward Southworth’s widow was about to sail to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to wed her old sweetheart, William Bradford. Fifteen years before, her father, Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somerset, had refused to let her marry the awkward young Bradford; after all, Alice’s ancestors had been members of Parliament for three centuries, back when taxes were levied to hold off Robert Bruce! And there was a great-uncle who was still called the most famous town clerk of London… Alice left her little boys with her spinster sister in Somerset and met William, now governor of Plymouth, with delight. I had flown from Chicago over Ontario, enjoying follow passengers whose speech had the same Yorkshire ring as I hear in the greetings of many Iowa neighbors with British grandfathers. We flew south. Someone pointed out, beyond Lamish Bay, the crumbling walls where my Hamilton ancestors once lived. Around here, my teenage “pirate” ancestor, Allan Dunlop, had gathered up the wild pals that helped him kidnap the crew of the Perundiall, dump them along the coast, and go skylarking around the Isle of Arran, gulping down the contents of the ship’s wine bunkers. Then they gave the ship back to its chilled crew. Allan married a Montgomery and moved on to more excitement in the furious Irish uprisings; his son died in Sligo and now we are tracing our Irish ancestors. From Banbury Cross, where all the Sunday bells were pealing, which in my day had to suffer bombing so that Winston Churchill’s breaking of the German Codes could be kept secret, where in ancient times some VIP’s wife rode naked through the streets as told in nursery rhymes, I asked the way to Sulgrave and went hunting Leeson land. I found the parchment, a deed drawn up in 1610, generations after the manor foundation had disappeared, but before the landlords razed their English village of 30 houses to enter the booming market with a sheep pasture. There the Thames and Tims families still mourned for old neighbors turned penniless onto the road. They asked me back to tea and listened to what happened to a few refugees who made their way to America. Elington Manor, long owned by the Stoteburys, was by 1610 the home of the last Stotesbury and her husband, Robert Leeson. The long-forgotten castle of the Elingtons must have disintegrated in Norman times. The parchment deed I found surrendered land to Lawrence Makepeace. His grandmother was Mrs. Lawrence Washington. Sulgrave Manor is now maintained by the Colonial Dames of America. Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 51
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