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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #108 on: Monday 15 September 08 19:52 BST (UK) »
Hi All, With the sad passing today of Pink Floyd's Rick Wright how could one forget, 'The Great Gig in the Sky' and Dark Side of the Moon's, 'Us and Them' Stephen Evans  :(
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #109 on: Tuesday 16 September 08 06:08 BST (UK) »
Another Brick in  the Wall................knocked down.

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #110 on: Wednesday 17 September 08 21:12 BST (UK) »
There's the obvious:

"Who Do You Think You Are" (various artistes)

the poignant:

"The Living Years" (Mike and the Mechanics)



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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #111 on: Thursday 18 September 08 17:02 BST (UK) »
Who Are You? - The Who  (CSI theme tune)
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA


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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #112 on: Thursday 18 September 08 17:03 BST (UK) »
For those of us with somewhat complicated family trees, how about "I'm My Own Grandpa"?

 ;D ;D ;D
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #113 on: Friday 19 September 08 02:42 BST (UK) »
"If I Only Had a Picture of You"    Joe Brown
Watkins, Price Herefordshire
Brannan, Price, GLAM
Edwards, Gardner MON
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #114 on: Friday 19 September 08 16:47 BST (UK) »
Wow Stephen, I come back after almost a month and this topic is still going ;D
Have you compiled the top 20 yet?  How about In My Life by The Beatles or The Orange & The Green by The Irish Rovers. In fact when my husband and I where married in 1985, we had to go to the Uniting Church because of the orange and the green "problem"  ;) 23 years on we still laugh about that one :D
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #115 on: Friday 19 September 08 18:15 BST (UK) »
Hi Ann in Oz, Glad you are enjoying this bit of fun as much as I have. Some interesting ones have come to light. Hope to keep it going for a while longer, then who knows maybe some sort of compilation to while away those difficulties or success stories. Cheers, Stephen :) ;)
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #116 on: Saturday 20 September 08 12:26 BST (UK) »
some more Irish ones

"Oft in the Stilly Night" Thomas Moore .. (as you lie awake thinking about your current brickwall!)

"Johnny, I hardly knew you"

"leave us a lock of your hair" .. don't know this one really

"the Legacy" Thomas Moore

"She is Far from the Land" Thomas Moore
Begg - Dublin, Limerick, Cardiff
Brady - Dublin
Breslin - Wexford, Dublin
Byrne - Wicklow
O'Hara - Wexford, Kingstown
McLoghlin - Roscommon
Lawlor - Meath, Dublin
Lynam - Meath and Renovo, Pennsylvania
Everard - Meath
Fagan - Dublin
Meyler/Myler - Wicklow
Gray - Derry, Waterford
Kavanagh - Limerick