Family inherited features (not DNA testing)

[Ermintrude46]

Hi Nashua,
That's interesting but my Curtis line is on my father's side whilst the thumbs are on my mother's (Jones) side.  My Curtis family were from the Downton/ Whiteparish/ Bramshaw/ Minstead areas of the New Forest, be interested to hear if you think we may have a connection.
Ermy

[nashua]

Hi Ermy

Thanks for the reply. My Curtis family were from Charlton, Hankerton & Alderton area near Malmesbury so probably not connected. What a coincidence if we had found a link through the double thumbs 

Nashua

[gazania]

Hi,

My sister & our maternal grand mother have white streaks.  My maternal aunt and my son have cross bight on their front teeth ( top teeth protude over bottom but not bucked tooth).  All the known males on my paternal line for 3 generations ( including the teetototal ones) have gout.  We also have stuttering and deafness, and  rare inherited blindness.

But for me, records for my convict ggg grandfather, indicate he had several raised moles on the back of his neck on the RHS.  So have I.  Gazania

[Redroger]

Would male pattern baldness count?

[gazania]

I would, Redroger.

Oops I made mistakes in my previous posting: 

Cross bite where the bottom front teeth protrude over top

Gout is present in 4 generations that we know of.

Gazania

[Redroger]

Three generations,our father, my brother and I and my son all have the same pattern of baldness, yet none of my nephews do, though they have patterns seen elsewhere in family photos. Obviously a more subtle process than straight pass on from generation to the next.

[Rena]

I have heard the same about people called Crooktoe and I believe one of the the Scottish clans had many more than usual left handed people - to such an extent that the spiral staircases in their castles went the other way (I'm thinking Cameron, but not certain).

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Both my father and I are left handed and descend from Cameron and Mackenzie lines.  However, the left handed spiral staircase was the Kerr Clan and as yet I haven't found any Kerrs ancestors.  I was interested to see this :

""But the Kerrs were aye the deadliest foes
That e’er to Englishmen were known
For they were all bred lefthanded men
And ‘fence against them there was none"

[pinefamily]

And that's why we drink a toast in our right hand; the theory is if you are holding a glass, you can't draw a weapon. I wonder if known left-handed people were required to do the opposite?

[Redroger]

Left handed spirals were built in order to make it more difficult for right handed attackers to use their shield for defensive purposes against missiles when attacking a fortress.

Pinefamily, the glass may be poisoned of course!