Does anyone know why the drinking aria,"Libiamo" in Verdi's la Traviata is known as "Brindisi"? Brindisi is a place in Italy, but what is the connection? I have long been curious...
3d...feature of ball game played on the lawn the game is croquet, I believe. First word c-u-u-t, and the second "hoop" Also 42a, Mythical king of Ithaca. Odysseus does not fit Thanks in...
It seems that pursuing the Leicester trail was wrong after all, and I should be concentrating instead on a Thomas Tilley who was born in Newport Pagnell in 1785. There must be a record of his birth...
An ancester of mine, William Henry Tilley was born on 9th Jan 1809 in Newport Pagnell, but in spite of my efforts, using Ancestry and Family Search, I have been unable to find his parents. I believe...