[Oratam]

Is that a practice of the rich in raising sons — Trade sons for some sort of enlightenment or something?

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It was a common practice in late medieval/early Renaissance England.

Perhaps it was an informal apprenticeship for the Getty-Newsom families.

[bunster]

re: Apprenticeship possibly?
It was a common practice in late medieval/early Renaissance England.

Perhaps it was an informal apprenticeship for the Getty-Newsom families.
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Both Newsom name and Getty name are Scots/Irish. So, they would fit there

Thanks, with that info now I can drop this. Interesting though, isn’t it.

[peteypupperdoo]

With those families, it’s all quid pro quo. By having Newman informally adopted, it opened up business opportunities, social opportunities, and political opportunities for Newsom as it did for Getty when the Newsom’s informally adopted Gordon?