http://www.berylfletcher.co.nz/2009/06/16/sydney-dreaming/ Award winning New Zealand Author Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:29:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.berylfletcher.co.nz/2009/06/16/sydney-dreaming/#comment-123 Peter Wells Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:01:26 +0000 http://www.berylfletcher.co.nz/?p=85#comment-123 Lovely piece on Sydney, Beryl - catches its strange attraction/repulsion. Like you I have Sydney ancestors, my Napier ancestor marrying an Australian lass in 1838. His Cornish brother was a Sydney convict - his name was Samuel Northey and the name persisted right down the generations. A later Samuel Northey, my grandfather's best friend, died at Chunuk Bair. And I think subconsciously this was why I chose 'Samuel' as the name of my favourite literary character (in my own work) - Samuel Barton. So I think you're right about genetic memory persisting. Lovely piece on Sydney, Beryl - catches its strange attraction/repulsion. Like you I have Sydney ancestors, my Napier ancestor marrying an Australian lass in 1838. His Cornish brother was a Sydney convict - his name was Samuel Northey and the name persisted right down the generations. A later Samuel Northey, my grandfather’s best friend, died at Chunuk Bair. And I think subconsciously this was why I chose ‘Samuel’ as the name of my favourite literary character (in my own work) - Samuel Barton. So I think you’re right about genetic memory persisting.

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