From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-05-14 15:10:03 +0000, Chris Dickinson said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   For what it's worth Augusto Pinochet is said to be descended from one   
   of three brothers who emigrated together from France.   
      
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