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aeronca65t

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This is a very neat little video where a gang of fellows drive their little British cars (mostly Austin 7s) on their way to <u>Barnhill</u>.

Which is apparently the name of a place on Jura; a small island off the coast of Scotland.

Looks like these lads had a good time.

The music is nice too. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSocJ55TWFg
 
cool - thought at first you meant Tony's - ... he's not the guy in the wig is her?
 
My relatives immigrated from the Isle of Jura to the Isle of Wight to Barbados & then to the US...did you know George Orwell lived in Barnhill while he wrote <u>1984</u>?

When my daughter was studying for her LLM in England, she visited both Barnhill on the Isle of Jura & the Isle of Wight...they treated her very, very well on Jura & on the Isle of Wight took her to see the family cemetary where our some of relatives are buried...in both places she met distant relatives.
 
tony barnhill said:
My relatives immigrated from the Isle of Jura to the Isle of Wight to Barbados & then to the US...did you know George Orwell lived in Barnhill while he wrote <u>1984</u>?
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not sure if that is good or bad - Orwell that is. Is your family one that originally settled the Carolinas/ Georgia? - I hadn't realized till I was reading a history of the USA that the south was initially settled from the Barbados
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Is your family one that originally settled the Carolinas/ Georgia?[/QUOTE]
Yep, & some of them are still in the Carolina's.
 
Cool! Did they bring their MG's when they came? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif seriously, as a child of immigrant parents married to a child of immigrant parents, that kind of rootedness amazes and fascinates me. I have a friend whose ancestors are the oldest (non native) family in the USA. His great great great whatever was the first person baptized in the country - think Ponce de Leon here not the Mayflower. - how far back can you trace?
 
I have a friend (named David Jones), who is a member of the Mayflower Society <u>twice</u>.
*Both* sides of his family came over on the Mayflower.

I came to North America on a Lockheed Constellation /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]how far back can you trace?[/QUOTE]
1650 - & my daughter found her grave! Her name on the headstone: Anne Wid of Villiares
 
cool - BTW - sounds like a great name for a car too
 
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