Thor 2003 to 1945 (c)
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| Penny, Roberta, Thor in Sydney 2002 | E. Patricia May, nee Parsons, Hobart 1943 [TM.s mother] | William (Bill) May, Hobart 1943 [TM's father] | Mary Parsons, nee Gould (born 1886) Tasmania 1912 [TM's maternal grandmother] | Allen Parsons (born 1886), Caveside, Tasmania 1912, country school master & lay Methodist preacher [TM's maternal grandfather] |
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| William Parsons (Thor's maternal great grandfather) |
Susan Ryder (wife of John Francis Parsons. TM's great, great grandmother) |
John Francis Parsons. (husband of Susan Ryder; TM'S great, great grandfather) |
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Ahem, every family claims one ... the ilustrious ancestor.. Here, General John Pemberton. TM's paternal grandmother, Ruby May, nee Pemberton, reckoned he tied in. I can't verify it.. What the hell. Anyway, Rubys grandfather arrived from America sometime in the mid-nieteenth Century. As for General Pemberton, after a long career in the US Cavalry, he resigned and joined the Confederate army. He lost the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 to Ulysses S. Grant, so wound up unpopular in both the North and the South. Here is a link to his story: The Man Who Surrendered Vicksburg |
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