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I've discovered that a great aunt was in Holloway for stealing a rug from a shop in Oxford Street.


We have a Campbell in our family (we were always on the other side)


And, (don't tell my dad), an Irish Catholic about five generations back (not seemly for a presbyterian glaswegian)

One of my more distant ancestors was a bloke called John Bradshaw. He presided over the trial of Charles I and was the first to sign his death warrant.


He died before the restoration, but they exhumed his body and chopped him up for good measure. I think they may have stuck his head on a spike too. Shall have a hunt around to see what else I can find.


Edit: OK, seems the chopping up and head-on-a-spike were probably down to my imagination. The first three sources here agree that he was disinterred and plonked in a gibbet in Tyburn. Wikipedia has him hung, drawn and quartered though.

Gosh, my ancestor was his contemporary. John Evelyn, who watched the beheading.

He was one of the first tree huggers, wrote about the dangers of pollution in London about 400 years before the clean-air act, watched the great fire, sometime diarist, epistler, carouser, keeper of the privy seal, author, philosopher and theologist.


A lot to live up to frankly. Darn.

Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy Wrote:

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> The man holding the crown was my great, great

> uncle...

>

> What, in the top left corner? Why's he wearing a

> dress?


Oh, hadn't noticed her, how odd!

No, the one in the middle with the big crown, although he is kind of wearing a dress too.

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