Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Are you trying to swap a loan of those for an invite?

Depends what the vol au vent fillings are!

vivatifosi

Goats cheese and cranberry jelly are my favourite vol filling, though not very seventies, they are very yummy.

vivatifosi

Chris, I've had trouble posting and lost the message twice. Re your knights. Google visitation of the county of... and you should be able to track down heralds records for most counties. Even if records are after 1600, they often go back several centuries. Burkes and Cockaynes May also have gentry trees going back further. For the named knights, I'd also do an A2A search. Apologies if you know all this already. If you need help with any of this, then drop me a pm.

vivatifosi

Pastures, I think the swirling vortex will be there for a few days yet. I flew back to the UK from the US overnight and on a just shy of 8 hour flight had 6 hours of turbulence, all tail wind, so heading our way. Not the best flight ever.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pastures, I think the swirling vortex will be there for a few days yet. ...

Posh alert deleted.

It's been hellishly windy today. I saw in the newspapers that there was a tornado in a holiday caravan park in Wales and caravans were tossed upside down!

zagubov

chris_m wrote: »

Much less messy than soup in a basket

Or porridge in a string bag!;)

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Chris, I've had trouble posting and lost the message twice. Re your knights. Google visitation of the county of... and you should be able to track down heralds records for most counties. Even if records are after 1600, they often go back several centuries. Burkes and Cockaynes May also have gentry trees going back further. For the named knights, I'd also do an A2A search. Apologies if you know all this already. If you need help with any of this, then drop me a pm.

Thanks, but I know who they are and they all got their knighthoods for being clever dicks (one especially LOL), not for charging around on horses whilst wearing a load of tinplate

Sir Richard Arkwright 1732-1792 - inventor of the Spinning Frame, Water Frame and a rotary carding engine for processing raw cotton, pioneer of the modern factory system.

Sir George Gilbert Scott RA 1811-1878 - architect. Works included poorhouses, numerous churches, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras and the Albert Memorial.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM 1880-1960 - grandson of Sir George, and also an architect. Works included Liverpool (Anglican) Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge, Battersea Power Station and the ubiquitous red telephone box.

Sir Martin Ryle FRS 1918-1984 - radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. He was the one who also got (jointly) the Nobel prize for Physics in 1974 (the first Nobel Prize awarded for astronomical research) and was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982.

vivatifosi

What about your 1540 person, who were they?

I'd love to be related to Arkwright, I thought the guy a genius when learning about the industrial revolution at school.

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

What about your 1540 person, who were they?

A chap named Reginald Ryle 1540-1609. All I know about him was that he lived at a place called Highgreave, in Etchells - assuming that earlier relatives' research was correct.

I'd love to be related to Arkwright, I thought the guy a genius when learning about the industrial revolution at school.

Sir Richard was my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, the only one of the four with a direct blood line.

Sir Martin was my first cousin once removed.
Sir George and Sir Giles were my great-great-uncle and second cousin twice removed.

There's a few other interesting people in the tree too, but I don't want to bore everyone

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

... clever dicks ....

Ah, so you deliberately rebelled and chose the Village Idiot route for life's journey.

What sort of thing do you do?