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From: "Anne Major" <>
Subject: Re: Name Endings
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 21:44:07 +1000


Anyone remember Tony Hancock and "Hancock's Half Hour"?
He once said in one show when asked what his nationality was - 'pure Anglo
Saxon with a dash of Viking' !! I always say the same!! Get very funny
looks!!
Anne - Oz

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Rus <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, 9 September 2000 8:11
Subject: Re: Name Endings


>Just thought I'd throw this one into the pot. I went to school with a
family
>of DRINGS. That was in North Lincolnshire. We are all still Vikings up
there
>;-)
>Jo Rus
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Julie <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:35 PM
>Subject: Name Endings
>
>
>> My ex-husband's surname is DRING. He always told me that it was of
Viking
>origin and they originally hailed from East Anglia. A Dring apparently was
>a position between an earl and a thane (whatever that was!)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Julie in Dorset
>> Researching LUTON, WISEMAN, PITCHER(S), WHITE, CROPLEY and McCARTHY.
>
>
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