Funny how different people are sometimes...I was quite excited to find a whole branch of Reuben's family were well-known Millers...they lived in and operated several mills around Norfolk...a couple are now open to the public and there are many quotes about the owners in various publications...
So I found them on the tree and showed him this afternoon...he said he wasn't doing that side of his family...then he said the only mill he knew they owned was somewhere entirely different...with the evidence of the others there in black and white on an excellent site about windmills.
Could have cheerfully smacked him...
Maybe it's more about the lack of historical knowledge...Millers were the backbone of village and small town life...no flour, meant no bread. They also employed much of the workforce of a village...carting the wheat and oats...working in the mill itself...and delivering the flour to shops etc.
So I shan't be doing anymore of that side of the tree...
Then we had a bit of a to-do about Lunatic Asylums...Reuben says the term Lunatic is awful...I say it was the term used then...might be offensive to us now, but it wasn't when it was the correct terminology for the times. I told him about Mad-Houses then...just to wind him up really. Mad-Houses were private dwellings who were paid to take on a lunatic...if you took a 'dirty lunatic' you were paid more...
Reuben's sulking now...actually he sulked a bit yesterday after the Windows debacle...he'll get over it I expect.
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The word lunatic derives from the Latin 'luna', i.e. the Moon. The belief at the time was that people of somewhat eccentric behaviour were under the influence of the Moon. Indeed the word lunaticus could I believe mean, 'of the Moon' & 'from the Moon' as well as under the influence of it.
Also in truth many so-called lunatics were in fact highly intelligent people who were just too clever for the society they lived in. Indeed some of the finest minds in history have been called lunatics in their time.
So I'd be quite proud to be called a lunatic. You are a one-off & frankly out of this world
Hoping Reuben is less sulky today Vashti and it is good that you discovered things about that side of the family but not worth pursuing anymore I suppose. My family on my dads side came from Norfolk too but were not Millers so far as I know.
So so easy to wind up people, and since you have a wicked streak....I do....it's sometimes fun although never, like your l imagine, taken too far! Some people do not want to know facts no matter how much we try.....it's their lifes patch.I have to stop myself and remind me about that and not be too judgemental.......ha ha
I love your way of telling things Vashti - especially to Reuben! lol
How about telling him this .......until the 19c both sexes were known as "girls." Males were referred to as Knave girls and females were Gay girls (not at all pc today). The term "boy" was only used for addressing a servant or such, I.e delivery "boy", errand "boy". Now that WILL wind him up! lol.
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