The phlebby-tech who extracted my blood yesterday was raised in a family with 15 kids.
Her mother was the oldest child and the tech's maternal grandmother died very shortly after her mother married. So, her mother raised her seven sibling. Meanwhile, her mother had eight kids of her own. My tech was the youngest of the 15.
My tech was raised on a hog farm near Decatur, Michigan.
After growing up, she studied her family history and learned that her last name, in Gallic, was "Cinnéididh" which literally translates as "lumpy head".
The tech was a fine-looking lass and I assured her that her head was not the least bit lumpy.
I looked up her last name on the internet after I got home and it claims that the name refers to "A helmeted war-chief".
I guess if you had never seen a warrior wearing a helmet then you might describe him as a man with a lumpy head.
In my family's mother-tongue, my last name translates as "the peasant who chops the horse and cattle food". I guess you could say that my family has been in the transportation industry for a VERY long time.
Thanks for the laugh
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine being the guy whose blushing bride inherited 7 kids and then has eight of his own. Must have been a hell of a guy…or he needed help on the hog farm.
ReplyDeleteBob in Idaho
Definitely a hell of a man.
DeleteDecatur is a village with about 1500 people in it. It is almost a certainty that he knew his wife's siblings much better than if they had met in college. He had enough information to sort of know what he was getting into.
I like to think that they also got some help from both sides of the family even if it was only "hiring" the older kids to get them out of the newly-wed's hair for a few hours every day.
The tech is about forty. She married a city boy. Just a few years ago she convinced him that they need to live on a farm. All they could afford was four acres but now they have chickens and burros.
If they ended up with eight kids of their own, I’d say they had plenty of personal time.
DeleteBob
Bob,
DeleteDon't forget that it was a time before TV so they had no distractions inn the evenings. Ahem! >};oD
Phil B