> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bruce Napier > Sent: 09 September 2009 20:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: In the Saturday Telegraph travel section > - more canal dreamery > > > On 9 Sep 2009, at 19:50, roger_millin wrote: > > > Eh lass, them's yer roots tha knaws ;-)) > > > No they're not, she was born in Sunderland
Was she indeed??? So was I! and has an amazingly > mongrel pedigree, but absolutely none of it Yorkshire. Ditto except quite a lot of mine is (North) Yorkshire (The odd bit is that the name Peckett is *very* Yorkshire (Leeds / Halifax area) but it turns out that Great Grandmother was born with the surname Pettke and adopted Peckett later on - her parents were Prussian immigrants) Bru
