A friend indeed!
Well, what a splendid medal result for Australia in Paris so now it's onward to the Paralympics starting later this month. Another event to load up the return plane with a lot of metal! I hope so. I did not intend to publish another blog about a person whose origins were French, but this person ancestry was removed from that country via a few generations. CHARLES EDWARD DE BOOS Charles was born in May 1819 in London to Abraham Charles de Boos and his wife Mary Ann. He was the first of seven children. There is reputedly a link to a French Count but his 3 times Grandfather, Abraham de Boos was born in Normandy to a family of the Protestant faith who fled to England in the early 1700's to escape persecution in a Catholic France. The family like many other Huguenots settled in the Spitalfields area of east London and were heavily involved in aspects of the silk industry especially in relation to weaving cloth. Abraham married Madeliene Eude in 1716 in the French Huguenot Church ...