Show I 6 GENEALOGY E N F A L 0 6 Y I William illiam a m t the he Cn Conqueror q u e r o r I f Who Vho doesn't remember the man The painful pain Who Never leyer Smiled Again Again 4 ful memory of oC that child lost at al sea and his father sitting In mournful mourn CuI rev rov- reen ery en ever eYer after gave us children a thrill Which neither time nor mature maturo knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- ed edge edge- e of ot the tho man can ever quite pate William was sure a man who didn't let other people smile mlle very er much He lie was as everybody knows one of those royal roal Irregularities In birth about Y which we hear no comment except In Ina Ina Ina a whisper of or breathless awe awe- Funn Funny how bow a 0 title makes bigamy bl amy morganatic marriage and how tho the glitter of regal x Inheritances or priestly de descent cent mitigates mill miti gates an any old-fashioned old qualms of conscience con- con science about Illegitimacy Remember 1 the thc pride of oC the bishop of London In i that amusing 11 play a of When Knights Were cre Bold In his descent from Peter the Monk And tho the further amusing play upon that Incident Lh in th the dream t acts acis when wilen Peter the tho Skunk SKunK Is 15 called callcu r down by the tho hero of or the Use play on his I London ondon family connections connections' It snakes makes i such a difference whose father the child Is no Is-no no whoso whose child the lute father tather Isor Is- Is Is Isor or no that wont won't do do oh oh dear delu you know what 1 I mean anyway Well Yell doughty dought William Duke Die of oC Normandy Normandy Nor Nor- mandy p. p was born bon with a crooked spoon s neither but goon goonin in his him mouth outhA and It wasn't a horn spoon either elther-buto elther but so long bug as aH It Il was cast cat ithe In Inthe the regal silver mold molt of oC his Illustrious 4 fathers father's mint Robert mint Robert tho the Devil surnamed sur- sur 1 named d- d was a his a august g the father father 1 the 01 of or of his T name ana and condition condition UL servitude VOLU VL mother doesn't count much AY V William illiam was teas a scrapper from Cram away back hack And as his quarrelsome subjects were ere of the same pugilistic tendencies he lIe held onto his Inherited duchy after aCter his Irregular fathers father's death more by good luck than good management until until un un- til he was a a. t bl bit t sizable when William came into things general and specific In Normandy Normand He lie soon showed his belligerent subjects that he could lye give them cards and spades spates on pure be bellig belligerency and beat them hands handt down Whereupon liku Ilku all similar peoples or em even Individuals they just left leCt off j fighting him and fought each other In Infighting infighting fighting for Cor him Now Now ow It wouldn't mal make e much difference difference differ differ- ence ence to a peaceable and cool cool blooded blooded old antiquarian or genealogist who or ort t what William the tho Conqueror is orf or f f. was was only that In order older to get head hend and andl tall to their th lr family relations Williams William's l I whole record must be searched pretty 1 diligently II I for Cor he hc was out to conquer I and that led ed to tu g genealogical foundations lions as at you oU shall sec see Ho lie laid out his hist own awn duchy and got It H eating out of his hisA t i A hand and then he looked around for tor I more conquering For when a man gets fairly started In tho the conquering I business be bo It only on the small domestic domestic do domestic do- do scale or on the large lines lIne of an European map It ju just t naturally fol follows follows tal- tal lows that In order to keel keep his conquering conquering con con- teeth firmly in his robust t jaw and hi his hia mailed fist firmly Irmy In hl his ad adversary's adversary's adversary's ad- ad stomach he must keep at athis athis athis his Job fob So William Just looked about for the nearest likely ring and over In England he found about the biggest circus show ever grouped under one sky There were plenty of rings ring with the Adamle Adamic Celts In one end of the tent the time Scots and at loggerheads loggerheads logger log heads In the other two rings and tho the Danes Dancs holding the whip which forced the galloping stragglers from all the tho camps Into double quick marches There were plenty plent of monkish h clowns in each ring and various titled tILled ladies ladles rode gayly ah about or hung by the skin of their I. I lr tenth teeth t h from th the loops and tap trapezes fashioned i h on i for r th their lr Jj rt c-rt s ment b by their festive husbands of high degree Now ow William of ot Normandy was game ame to tho limo core He just came over oer overto overto to the tight little isle took tool the whip out our of or Canute's hand hanel put Ed Edgar ar Athe- Athe ling astride of the trick horse and made madu Malcolm Canmore clown in chief to the whole performance This is not real kcal antiquarian history but as long longas as you OU g get t the idee what's the as the boys ho s 's say sa The Tho facts In the tho case am reify much I For horo n e and now nr v wo tV romr come ni n 1111 IU n t to d the the Interesting tc st n p i part When a man conquers anything an what does docs he do next Whether its it's an all island hes he's captured or a shoe hoo I business or a n. political machine ho lw simply shoots out all tho the present nt incumbents not often often oft oCt en stopping to let ct thorn thom off with a aoto vote oto of thanks either either and aud ho proceeds to put his family find and friends and ward Into the vacant places thus places thus filling a long felt want In tho the suffering suffering suffer suHer- ing community Well Yell when you see sec a aman aman amun man mun do 10 anything like that nowadays j just remember that he has good au authority authority au- au for that lint proceeding beginning with David and and coming coming com com- ing on down to William of oC Normandy and of or England En For or l tho time putting of Williams William's i friends into all the good paying places IB Its what has hatS made mad him tho the great and only onh William to the gist He Hc rna may have o done many great reat and wise things 9 he ho may ma and did do a great man many cruel and bloodthirsty t things things but but g-but but ho he certainly did dill do the genealogist lt quite a several so of or good turns lie He ma may have ha had no intention of doing It indeed he may ma not have ha had tho the twentieth century genealogist In mind at all when he ho threw throw out all the Saxon nobles and chiefs anI and put In his own Norman orman friends and warriors war war- It It Is II more than likely that ho bo never had a thought about genealogy or posterity But Dut what he ho did would sewn seem to 10 indicate that he had a most profound contempt for the crude Saxon and a determined zeal to fasten his own friends onto the tho British lands for good and aye In this one respect he ho could give any modern council of cardinals cardinals cardinals car car- or even the hilarious and malodorous malodorous malodorous mal mal- odorous American party machine In Inthis Inthis inthis this city some pointers Jointers that would help to fasten them forever Core on a longsuffering long suf fering public First then William set ever every follower tol- tol fol follower lower of his over some sume particular town or castle castlo or 01 freehold after aUel- dispossessing dispossess dispossess- ing the rightful owner and then In order to him an uncontested title to the pa place c forever ho he sort of or invented surnames b by which to to distinguish his friends and and- differentiate them Iron from the Saxons and Danes vanes who glared out at their theil new enemies from tram the braes and burns bUln of ot their native fastnesses where he had driven them You see If William the Young was quartered In this castle and lohn John the theLong Long ong was located d In ht Wll while W 11 llam Ilum th the Red anI and John the tune Black were In still lUll another or of the stolen strongholds strongholds strong strong- holds then necessary to do du two things to things tast fasten n to both Williams and Johns the nicknames b by which th they were known l n t and nd to prepare a n hook book or 01 a a. lUr there record there were no no books bool 5 as wo we know knots them In this day which day which was to be he Kept kelt In the royal vaults aults of or London under the tho Conquerors Conqueror's own eye cy of or all those manors and castles and anti farms The rile place w was vas s alive with Vil Hams and Johns and and Edwards Edwards Edwalds Ed Ed- wards and Henrys and ami Richards The These Thebe e names belonged to both the conqueror and the conquered So what phat must he bc done was to hitch mien on another a sort of ot added name name for for that Is ex exactly ox- ox X- X achy what a surname surname is and Is-and and make this thin surname a n mark marlc of or Norman nobles noble in other words tomake to tomako tomake make mako it the tho style le the mode the fashion fashIon fash- fash Ion lun the corn correct ct timing thing to wear weal an ap- ap t to your only baptismal name and thus thuR kill two o herds birds l with one stono stone Establish an undisputed Inheritable surname mar mark maru to each aeh landholder and also to thus create to a Norman aristocracy aristocracy racy which should o bo be tho thu English arl ar ar- aristocracy arI I l Aim t s1 it vas so sop You tou ml might ht trust William the tho Scrapper Scrapper Scrap Scrap- per Jer to have ha another another codicil to this I provision of or Norma an nature hog that nature that William himself was Wis to lo get the lne non lions share of or all this ml mighty land grafting scheme To Io the victor belongs the spoils was the motto which was teas worked In red yarn and hun hung over oer Williams William's Ill lams lam's bed canopy as it were And William V was the great reat and on only 1 victor victor vic vic- victor tor who troubled the earth to any appreciable appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap- ap extent In his day da To bo ho sure he got col ot mad at his 1 French cousin for Cor laughing at his paunch and pimples and went over to France Franco to hand him himan himan which Death an nn uppercut Instead Instead of took tool a hand hand mixed mixed ed all up with the thc determining de de- caU cause e of the pimples and ancl paunch paunch and and quite blUed bitted out the headlight headlight head head- light of tho mho powerful scrapper rl right ht in inthe inthe the tho first round If you ou want to get geta a nervous OUS chill just read how long that forgotten old carcass laid ald out inthe In Inthe Inthe the hot weather without an any fumigation a tion Uon at the m mercy rc of or the armies of conquering microbes who had at last got ot In their own fine lne Italian hand on the pimples and paunch and made buz buz- meat of oC a royal conqueror However that's neither here nor I there thero to tho genealogist Suffice It to toay say ay William was very cry much alive alle when he decided to make mak a Doomsday Book ook and therein record all the lo loyal al subjects subjects sub sub- who would or would not vote ote for tor stockades or water taxes or wet or dry Ho lie had them all at nt his fingertips as It were were those those follows fellows who cast their votes with the end nd of or a n IJ staff pike nail ami he knew mcW Just how much he ho could call caB upon them for to aid In ht any little conquering expedition hn might have on hand or to cobble tho the streets of London or 01 plant one of or tho the game g forests forests for for- ests In which his conquering spirit de tie- lI lighted l If he couldn't fight tight he ho must hunt And that's the way WRY with so 50 many man manof of his emasculated subjects of today if they limey cant can't have have a n scrap with Germany German because of A Asquith and William of oC Teutonic fame why its it's game gawe stalked by bv grizzly gamekeepers In a n small mull pound for tor the English descendants of or ortho tho the Saxon Celtic Saxon Norman Norman Danish orman An- An g Ever attend an nn English hunt |