The most interesting patronymic of the lot is that of James J. Cor-ott. When the writer was a very small boy. Corbett defeated the supposely invincible John. L. Sullivan at Now Orleans and became the dol of the Irish. He behoves he is Irish, his father and mother came from Ireland and he probably has Trish blood in his veins, bub his name indicates that he has another strain in him and carries his an-costly back to one of the most savagely warlike royal families in Corbett is a Norman-heraldic nickname, whic' had become a clan or fai in Normandy before the "Little Crew. two sons, fought at the battle of] Hastings on the side of William the Conqueror und are described by a contemporary scribe as being faith-fol and valiant men, A litle later they turn up in history as the rulers of the vast estates of Montgomery, the first Norman Earl of Shrewsbury. Their history after that it 3 up to the Corbotts themselves to trace, but there is no evidence that thers was tore than one family by the name in the British Isles, so it is fairly sate to assume that James J. Cor!ett, born in San Francisco, is a lineal desfendant of these' three hard-fighting Normans. The history of the Grew clan before the conquest is partly traditional. partly historical. History begins with Regnar Lod-brog, Ragnar Hairyshoes, King Denmark, who died in the year 704. The crow was his family emblem and his death song ig called in the Sagas "The Song of the Crow." According to later tradition he was desjeended from a crow. A more reasonable story is that, being childless, he took as concubine a girl named Grow, or Kraka as it would then have been, and that all of his lino, subsequently the royet families of Sweden and Denmark both, traced their descent from Karka and-honoured her memory by flaunting the frow banner on their piratical ex-editions.
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