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Subject: Re: Celtic Toes?
Date: 5 Oct 1997 22:44:46 EDT

Carol, I did get a laugh out of that. I have Celtic toes also. Are you
telling me they are the reason for my being clumsey?
My G Grandmother was a McGuinn...not too far from Gunn. But I think I
got the toes from the Willisons and Hamiltons..although I don't believe
Hamiltons are Celtic. Celtic toes are far more attractive than English
toes.
Connie

LD> wrote:
LD>>
LD>> Mac,
LD>> This originally came from "The Highlander", April/May, 1997 and was
LD>> reprinted in the Old Pike Post, quarterly publication of The Allegany
LD>> County Maryland Genealogical Society:
LD>> "According to Phyllis Jackson, podiatrist of Gloucestershire, During
LD>> WWII, refugees flooded the town of Hereford...turned out to be Scottish,
LD>> Irish, Welsh and Cornish. Poor things kept coming to me with awful
LD>> bunions. Quite different from the English ones I was accustomed to
LD>> seeing, who had broad feet with toes forming a steep angle somewhat
LD>> pointed from the first to the fifth toe. Celtic evacuees had toe tips
LD>> almost level with one another, and their feet tended to be longer and
LD>> slimmer except at the base of the big toe where bunions form...Jackson
LD>> took up archaeology and examined skeletal remains of a few Saxon and
LD>> Celtic bones from a 6th century cemetery and found that the differences
LD>> held.....
LD>>
LD>> Connie
LD>>
LD>> MA>Dear List,
LD>>
LD>> MA>I'm likely bringing up something that was rode hard and put away wet a
LD>> MA>long time ago. Please advise the uninlightened what "Celtic Toes" are.
LD>>
LD>> MA>Mac
LD>> MA>
LD>>
LD>> to: IN:
LD>> cc: IN:

LD>Oh absolutely correct!! In fact Mr. Celtic feet himself(my husband)
LD>just stopped by my desk to pick up the portable phone. He has very long
LD>toes and the even toe configuration with the addition of the extremely
LD>high arch. My father who had such feet also refered to the high arch
LD>and slender calves as the "bootfoot and legs of a gentleman" My John is
LD>a Gunn, one of the Viking Clans of the highlands. They are a mess at
LD>games and run around with their Wagnerian helmets usually worn fore and
LD>aft instead of sideways. They also love their libations.!!

LD>Carol

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