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lethargic_manWikipedia informs me...
All right, I'll stop being egotistical now. :o)
This came out of correspondence with a distance relative, who was telling me how she discovered the dot com domain for her name, Shooman, was taken by a business owned by a large and wealthy Arab family spread across the Middle East. She said her brother received an email from a Mohammed Shooman asking if they were cousins, which afforded them some amusement since they are religious Jews. "I think Mohammed was a bit disappointed." :o) I wonder where an Arab family came upon a German/Jewish surname like that.
Michael Grant (b. 1947) is the 12th Baron de Longueuil, which is the only French colonial title recognised by the British monarch in their capacity as King or Queen of Canada. A doctor by profession, he lives in Nottingham. He assumed the title upon the death of his father Raymond Grant in Pau, France in 2004. Children: Angela (1974), Rachel (1976), Rebecca (1981) and David-Alexander (1984).Bizarrely, the Michael Grant at grant.org lives in France too. And grant.me.uk is registered to someone in Ashington, in my father's neck of the woods.
The Barons de Longueuil have not lived in Canada for several generations, having been living in England and France. However, they still own the baronial manor in Canada, although its size has been greatly reduced over the centuries.
All right, I'll stop being egotistical now. :o)
This came out of correspondence with a distance relative, who was telling me how she discovered the dot com domain for her name, Shooman, was taken by a business owned by a large and wealthy Arab family spread across the Middle East. She said her brother received an email from a Mohammed Shooman asking if they were cousins, which afforded them some amusement since they are religious Jews. "I think Mohammed was a bit disappointed." :o) I wonder where an Arab family came upon a German/Jewish surname like that.
