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I intended to title the book Our Ancestry but we have cousins and second cousins and third cousins in Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. The title became Your Ancestry ,make a connection and we become cousins. Are your ancestors Major, Spearpoint, Warman and more? Connect to a Kent fishing community and stories of smuggling? Are your ancestors Lamb, Caffrey, Morgan, Brady and more? Connect to the north east and stories of legendary Irish princes and the truth staff of a saint? Are your ancestors Sharp, Simmons, Dawson, Austen, Boys and More? Connect to a line leading to the kings and queens of the Plantagenets? Connect to characters in the tv Series “The Last Kingdom”, Alfred the Great, Hywel Dda, Sigtrygg (Sitric Cáech)? Make this : YOUR ANCESTRY
After an established career as a literary critic, David Pierce turns his attention to the story of his own life. From a working-class upbringing to an education in Catholic boarding schools and seminaries in Sussex and Surrey, and then onto university at Lancaster, his story is both personal and evocative of the changes that Britain underwent from the post-war period until the present. With chapters on his father’s lost Jewish family and his mother’s Irish heritage, this is a memoir that celebrates continuity and difference. Whether as a child witnessing the disappearing house dances in the west of Ireland or commenting on the impact of change and the new, Pierce is a compelling story-te...
Appropriation acts before 1911 published in the Laws of the General Assembly; 1911- in a separate volume.
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