[or-roots] dummy me

[E V Barnes]

My deceased brother's name was Melvin.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Chapman 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:59 PM
  Subject: RE: [or-roots] dummy me


  Interesting that you bring women into the issue, the family legend is that
  our ultimate American Melvin was the son of the last of the line in
  Fifeshire, being his mother, and the reason he had the name Melvin was that
  she had the land and her husband was an Englishman (I surmise some kind of
  military man) so she kept her name and passed it on to her children.

  As soon as Readers Digest comes through with that sweepstakes money I intend
  to go chase this legene down.

  Les C

  snip<
  Men ruled the world. but finally a woman could come into
  possesion a of third of her husbands estate by dower right.

  Sometimes the division reached rather obtuse results.
  The is the spouse might have uses of a room, her bedroom, the kitchen and
  1/3 of the barn, and so on.
  >snip
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