From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Sunday, 13 May 2018 21:01:25 UTC+1, J. P. Gilliver (John)  wrote:   
      
       
   > What was this "theme"?   
      
      
   Part of the standard narrative of many US genealogical books written around   
   1900. For some reason, people liked the idea of their first migrants arriving   
   as three 'brothers' together.     
      
   There's an equivalent in Cumbrian genealogy (at least, I've come across three   
   families with the same story), which I suspect originated at about the same   
   time. A medieval local lord with his new bride go on a hunting trip, get   
   separated from the rest of    
   the party, and then are charged by a boar. The supposed forester ancestor   
   leaps to their defence, kills the boar, and gets rewarded with a farm.   
      
   Chris   
      
   Chris   
      
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