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In fairness to her, she was his second wife. She only had ten of his children. The fact that her old goat of a husband had so many off-spring does enable me to say, with some confidence, that I'm related in some traceable way to just about everyone who shares my surname. Incidentally, mangles...

I've traced most of my ancestral lines back to the mid-eighteenth century, and some of them back a lot further than that. Not a single famous individual to be found. But plenty of interesting characters. One of my favourites is my great great great great grandfather's brother, who had...