His and my Grandpa Norrie's first regiment (the Greys) doing the Last of the Mohicans music (like Pattie, it was shot in the mountains of Carolina). And I daresay they'd both be happy looking at Lagertha from Vikings… (And frankly, if anyone earned Valkyries taking him to Valhalla, it's Pattie.)

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I dedicate this song to my dear Pattie, whose anniversary is on Saturday, and to my maternal great-grandfather Jack. Pattie had mercury treatment for the pox, but died of what might be best described as "lead poisoning of the solid variety" (x a dozen or so) in 1780 in South Carolina. Jack, a Hull dock labourer, died in 1924 of what was (perhaps ( Read more... )

Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (aka Hill), b. 1879.

Pattie Ferguson, d. 1780.

Both endearing, occasionally infuriating, and highly gifted. Both died in a hail of bullets at 36.