Pages

Saturday 15 November 2014

Descended From The Illustrious



What a tremendously interesting programme on the History Channel the other evening.  Three ordinary people who could each trace their ancestry back to the Great Fire of London – one even discovering Samuel Pepys himself as an ancestor.  I was most impressed.   Another was connected both through his mother and his father to the King of the time who did such a sterling job of insisting on overseeing the essential matter of firebreaks.  The third traced back to William Taswell, a schoolboy in Westminster who wrote an even more fascinating account of the fire than Pepys himself. You should read it!
Why is it I wonder, when my own family roots are picked over no matter how far back,  we find no-one of note – no princes, simply Pikies.  It's not good enough!

No comments:

Post a Comment