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My parents are quite accepting of whatever I find.
Mum was more than happy that her first maternal ancestor to arrive in Australia was not called John but rather was George and George was a convict. Aunt M, however, was the one who said George was called John. Mum thinks M must have known George was a convict but was embarrassed by it. Dad's side is supposed to have a baronet somewhere on the direct paternal line that went bankrupt and another line came from Scotland and there was a pharmacist. I haven't gotten the paternal line back far enough but I think there is a baronet in Scotland there on a female line. However in Scotland at the time you could buy a baronet. The bankruptcy was 2 generations later and while I wouldn't say bankrupt she didn't have much money and changed her will to reflect the loss of property. The pharmacist from Scotland was actually a travelling chemist from Yorkshire who went to Scotland. OC I heard recently that the medical profession has decided it is possible to die of a broken heart. It is also possible however to recover from the condition. It was quite interesting.
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Family legend has it that the slogan came about because of the marriage of Newey and Rust. Absolute poppycock, he was a butler and then a railway worker and she was a servant before marriage. Nothing to do with hooks and eyes and anything else in that line. His father was a tailor that's the closest it comes to it. My Newey line has no connection whatsoever to the hook and eye firm. Newey is a very common name in the Birmingham area.
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I don't think "broken heart" is yet on the list of official causes of death in the UK though. OC |
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I'm not sure it is official here either OC. But they had a diagram showing what happens to a heart during a heart attack and what happens to a "broken" heart. It was quite fascinating and the damage was real and can be fatal.
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I read a bit about this in today's paper and I interpreted it to mean that the newspapers wanted to be able to say people die of a broken heart! What I read was that extreme shock - pleasant or otherwise - can cause a heart attack and that the sudden death of a loved one is an extreme shock. Prolonged distraught grieving can also stress the heart and cause a heart attack. (The article said you can also recover from a broken heart - as you can recover from a heart attack!) OC |
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I can't remember the diagrams exactly but say in a heart attack the heart swells and is more like a ball shape. With a broken heart it elongates.
I believe extreme shock can do a lot. I thought I won $5000 on a scratch lottery ticket once and I almost had a full on panic attack. Paul's uncle won lotto and was so stunned he sat all night sitting on the lounge trying to take it in.
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