by Kate Dolan | Mar 17, 2019 | Game of Thrones, The Irish
One of my law school professors told us that the name “Fitz” as part of someone’s last name indicated they were descended from a bastard son. Since Fitzgerald and similar names are commonly perceived as very Irish, I thought a blog about bastard names would tie in...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 23, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History
“Mr. Emerson …tells me that he saw boys skating on the Mississippi, and on Lake Erie and on the Hudson and has no doubt they are skating on Lake Superior. Probably at Boston he might have seen them skating on the Atlantic.” –Henry David Thoreau, February 1856...