Rodney, Golsboro, Ennalls

For the first time, I have just seen a big box film about the first Congress and the formation of the US., and the break with Jolly Old Angla Terre. It is an older musical, without music as the remarkable event of the signing of the Declaration of Independence nears. Caesar Rodney, the rep. from Dela. plays a critical roll.

The entire presentation was excellently well done.

So I looked up Rodney on the inter net and an entire basket of names of several different family ancestor lines emerged. All of the Ennalls variety spelled one way or another, many of whom were descended from Ennalls slaves.

My mother once told me that she thought we were related to the Goldsboro family. I had had a roomate named Bob Goldsboro at Portsmouth. And the entire Goldsboro clan turns up as related to the Ennalls! Many of the G's and E's are descended from slaves.

So there's an entire sector of relationships that we know nothing about.

And perhaps there's a Rodney relationship. I hope not because they were a clan of dwarfs. Mother told me that I must accept the invitation of a Rodney girl to a party. She too was very small as was Judge Rodney who was a presiding judge in Dela. at the time.

Sure enough, the Rodney girl turned out to be a head shorter than I. One of the young ladies at the small party was in a wheel chair and spoke in a loud an slurred manner. She told me that that didn't matter, that she could do it anyway. I was immensly complimented and left the party as soon as I could slip out.

And that is more history than you ever wanted to know!