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Thread #144089 Message #3330139
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
28-Mar-12 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Who was Somerville in Warlike Seamen?
Subject: RE: Origins: Who was Somerville in Warlike Seamen?
Don't forget that names can, and often do, change in the oral tradition. I always think of the song that Edith Fowke collected as "Sir Charles Lapier", which turned out to be about General Sir Charles Napier (1782 - 1853).