MLU-ers 2007

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Unfortunately I am pure English on the male side and have traced my family back to about 1675, although definitely since 1704. Although we have maternal blood added over the centuries from Wales, Scotland and Ireland, we are English through-and-through, and my mother's side we know we can trace back to about 1775. Again, nothing other than English! And yet we now find that the Hayward/Heyward/Heywood etc. derivations are not necessarily referring to the Hay Ward, the Farm Foreman who looked after the vitally important hay and hedges, but the Scots clan Hay!

And please it is Auld Lang Syne, not Zyne! Thanks also to the Scots for allowing us New Year's Day as a holiday, your hogmanay, in exchange for Boxing Day which was not a Scottish holiday. I can remember the then Labour? Government giving us NYD and also May Day and giving you Boxing Day. It was not that long ago!