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|    Athel Cornish-Bowden to Steven Gibbs    |
|    Re: Interesting PR entries    |
|    09 Oct 19 12:37:35    |
      From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr              On 2019-10-08 20:49:09 +0000, Steven Gibbs said:              > On 08/10/2019 17:27, Jenny M Benson wrote:       >> I think it is always fun to find something a little out of the ordinary       >> in Parish Registers, even if it is does distract from the serious       >> business of finding out about one's own relatives.       >>       > On the death of a 78 year old man:-       > "Parish clerk for upwards 30 years. Converted to God at the age of 76.       > What has [sic] God wrought?"       > (Colmworth, Bedfordshire, 1825)              One might think that a Parish clerk would be converted to God a bit       sooner than that! Maybe not, however: someone assured me many years ago       that most cathedral organists in England are atheists (on what evidence       or knowledge I don't know).                     --       athel              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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