« Reply #75 on: Wednesday 02 January 13 00:06 GMT (UK) »
You must realise of course, that none of these people mentioned on this Thread have any relationship at all with FLORENCE NIGHTNGALE, simply because she had no descendants..and neither did her sisters. Her father WILLIAM SHORE adopted the name in order to inherit the Estate of (Mad) Peter Nightingale....his great uncle who died childless....
There may well be SHORE descendants, but you must consider that any family named Nightingale is likely to call a daughter Florence simply because of the fame of the original holder of the name.
As a long term researcher i can tell you that none of the Nightingales mentioned in this thread bear any relationship to Florence Nightingale........
Parthenope's marriage into the Verney family did not produce any children.
Trouble is that everybody who wants to be related to Florence refuse to accept my research..one example is where people come up with earlier Nightingales or Nightingalls fail to realise that they died out with Peter Nightingale.....before William Shore was born!
Derek.
I would agree with most of what you say - apart from your final paragraph; I imagine that most people (like myself) want to prove or disprove any connection, remembering of course that disproof can be just as important.
It also is important that this thread has led in so many directions, some which have been fruitless, while there has been some useful information come to light.
Denn
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