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my favourite films, In fact, I've downloaded it & intend to watch soon. John Hurt played Richard, if I remember correctly. And what a great Actor Paul Schofield was - such a loss. |
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Maybe it might have gone on too long if she’d been brought into the story.
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I was half expecting that too Dorothy, but I suppose they thought it wasn't strictly
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Hmm. According to some sites, the name Lettice is pronounced - Lettice! As in salad.
I have a very very long run of Amy as a name in one branch of the family, back to marriage settlements where the name is spelled Emme! Personally, I am inclined to accept the variant spellings as being phonetic of the time and a good indicator of what the scribe heard. I have a family named Henshaw, thousands of them. Back in the 1600s, the parish clerk fumbled while writing the w, tried to correct it and made the slopes bigger. It looks like Henshall - and forever after, that is what this branch of the Henshaws were called. If course, it could also have been a tongue tie speech impediment, which makes a w sound like an l. All meant to catch the poor innocent researcher out. OC |
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When it comes to writing down what the writer thought they'd heard, pity the poor registrars, vicars, census enumerators et al who had dealings with the German immigrant family who settled in London in the 1800s and from whom I am descended. I give you the Kannegiesser family. I have come across around 20 different spelling variations in the records, all for the same family. I am thankful I am descended through one of the daughters so didn't end up with it being my surname. It's no wonder that the grandfather of one of the male line descendants who I am in contact with Anglicised it to King!
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And found this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia So maybe that explains the pronunciation in the programme.
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I didn't know about the connection to the Spencer family.
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The Spencer connection wasn’t mentioned in the programme, I read of it in the piece about Lettice Knollys. Again ‘too much information’ for the programme.
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