Well, I can't help remembering Tony Hancock's outrage at being asked about his blood type in the classic skit "The Blood Donor" "English, English! Twenty generations, with perhaps a touch of Viking thrown in!"
As much as I wish I could claim some more exotic roots, I'm 3rd generation Canadian, with English ancestors. Did a "roots check" a few years ago and found that I am definitely the under-achiever in the Fielding line. Long history of public servants, ie. mayors, councillors, and university grads.
The name, although it sounds common enough, was actually easy to trace, and we seem to have a couple of notables way back when. "Henry", of course wrote Tom Jones, and he was related to Dickens. Also there was a "hanging" judge back there in the 1600s.
Gotta figure that the best of the lot was "Bill", my dad though. From Coboconk Ont. He was a Jazz musician, pharmacist, WW11 overseas vet from '39 to 44, sales mgr. for Schering, and as I found out for years after his death, respected and liked by everyone he met.
Sorry to digress Kat, but this got me thinkin' about him.
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