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!
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