[Sca-cooks] Yankees, Hash, and Beets, was and still is: Winter comfort food...

[Jeff Gedney]

> Same family as the Abilene Seeley's, but unfortunatley 
> not my side of the family, so no chance I'll inherit the 
> mansion!  (Not close enough to the mattress Sealy's either, 
> but still the same roots on the geneological vine.)

Hunh... Also not inheriting anything... Mostly because 
like other well to do established familes we were Royalists, 
and after the Revolution, everything we had was confiscated 
by the new government, and the heads of our family were 
thrown in Jail as traitors.  

A distant family member (Lt Thomas Robert Gedney) from 
South Carolina was the naval officer in charge of the 
Brig USS Washington, which captured the La Amistad in Long 
Island sound, and sued for salvage rights to the Cargo of 
slaves. 
So in addition to teaching scalping to the Indians during 
"Prince Philip's War" and hanging witches in Salem, family 
members also sued for slavery. 
Considering that family politics has always been toward 
the pacifistic, Congregational and abolitionist, our "Black 
Sheep" have always been more famous. That's the way of 
these old families, I guess. 

> My paternal grandmother (Elizabeth MacGrayne) was Scottish 
> and her family emigrated to Perth, Canada.  My dad's family 
> was all based in and around Windsor,Canada, Warren, Michigan, 
> and the midwest in general.

I am not in the branch of the family that went to Minnesota 
and founded the Gedney Pickle empire... Our branch of the 
family stayed in the Mamaroneck Area of Westchester County, 
and built boats until WWII.

My mother's family are from Galway (Though she is also 
related to a Confederate General named Pender). 

> I do have records of the gravestones in England where the 
> Seeley's are buried in the late 1500's.  I did not get a 
> chance to go see if I could find them when we were there 
> in '98, but if I ever get back, I'm definitely going 
> graveyard-snooping!

Heh, I would like to get to the Draper's Guild Hall in 
London, and see the inscription for John Gedney, who was 
Lord High Mayor as well as the head of the Draper's Guild 
(cloth merchants)in about the mid 15th century. 

We were more common in the wool trade areas of 
Cambridgeshire and East Anglia. 
There are even a few towns in East Anglia called "Gedney". 
It is in the area called Little Holland, and they raise a 
LOT of tulips there. 

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue