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To: blam
My Welsh heritage is something I appreciate. Celebrations in my home include St David's Day/Daffodil Day. We usually make leek soup. listen to traditional music and I wear a kilt.

When I was younger my family had a book detailing our Welsh side. Somewhere over the decades I've lost the book. However I DO recall something I've been totally unable to verify. That is that my family was descended from one of the first kings of the Welsh - King William the Ridiculous.

This IS NOT and April Fools joke!

Sadly I've searched the internet and found nothing detailing King Willie, only obscure references. One of these days I'm gonna get serious about it and see if I can determine if the story is true. In the meantime I celebrate the other celtic aspects of my heritage.

prisoner6

3 posted on 04/01/2006 3:29:53 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out)
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To: prisoner6

So who was the first person to ever "Welsh on a bet"? (Or is it Welch on a bet?)


7 posted on 04/01/2006 3:52:30 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: prisoner6
Because of your post I checked, and "daffodil" is not connected with St. David other than sounding somewhat similar. The English word "daffodil" ultimately derives from the Greek asphodelos, "asphodel."

I recall reading somewhere that Thomas Jefferson considered himself to be of Welsh descent, based on a family tradition.

12 posted on 04/01/2006 7:12:20 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: prisoner6
When I was younger my family had a book detailing our Welsh side. Somewhere over the decades I've lost the book.

Just spotted your remarks and may I offer my experience with a missing book. I have an original set of Dickens works (1864) but I was missing #II of "Bleak House."

So, after many years of wondering where Vol. 2 was, I thought about it and decided to ask some relatives. No luck. Then I decided to check with some friends whom I know like English literature novels (maybe I had loaned these volumes out). Again, no luck. Then, I decided to check different areas of my house and searched everywhere. No luck.
So finally I gave up. However, I didn't check the attic. And of course, everyone knows or should know, that old books and heat don't mix, so I never thought it would have been up in the attic. But it was there. When we did our last move, this edition II of Bleak House somehow was placed in a moving box with odd ball 'stuff.' And that's why it was in the attic and that's where I found it.

Anyway, perhaps the various places I've described above will help you to find your important book.

18 posted on 04/01/2006 7:31:52 PM PST by Sic Luceat Lux
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To: prisoner6
If you have the opportunity, visit the National Library in Aberystwyth. If the records exist, they will probably have a copy there. I was very surprised when they retrieved the original paper document dated 1851 that put my great grandfather and his sisters under the legal guardianship of their uncle in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn. That paper shifted the focus of my research from Ysbty Ystwyth to LLanfihangel y Creuddyn. The cemetery is filled with headstones with the family name that go back to the early 1400s. I'm going to have to take an extended trip to tend to the cemetery, clear the briars and record all the family information. The village is so small that nobody takes the time to maintain the cemetery.
26 posted on 04/01/2006 9:53:46 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: prisoner6

Was King Willie married to Queen Hildebeast of the Rodham (and how) Clan?


30 posted on 04/01/2006 10:39:43 PM PST by Thumper1960 (The enemy within: Demoncrats and DSA.ORG Sedition is a Liberal "family value".)
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To: prisoner6

Just an interesting question: why do Americans differentiate between Welsh, English, Scots, Scots-Irish ancestries? From my conversations with native British born friends, they (most NZers are from Britain in ancestry) consider themselves simply British in heritage.


32 posted on 04/01/2006 10:58:39 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: prisoner6

I'd love to visit Wales someday.


50 posted on 04/02/2006 11:09:24 PM PDT by rdl6989
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