[Magdalen] Abjure

[Jay Weigel]

Have you ever done any work on your genealogy, Joe? This sounds like
something Henry Louis Gates, Jr. would find fascinating!

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

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> Hi Allan,
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> My grandfather had to abjure allegiance to the Republic of France even tho
> the family had moved (temporarily I think) to Jersey and some relative had
> gotten him a commission in the Navy (mid 1880's) But he didn't abjure Queen
> Victoria. I don't know the full details but the tale is that he "ran away
> to sea" at the age of 16 and landed in Halifax and the authorities didn't
> see him since. So he made his way to Minnesota and fit in with the French
> Canadian community and married a young lady from Hull (limerick alert--)
> They tied the knot in 1896 but the names of his parents are absent in the
> registry at St. Michael's in Stillwater, After he gained citizenship in
> 1900 he took his family back to France and Jersey for a visit and aside
> from some correspondence with a sister (hasn't been completely documented)
> very little is known what happened among this branch of the Cirou's in
> France since--tho we do have family and the name is known tho not that
> common. I know enough to prove that it was not a variant of Sureau. Grandpa
> always said it meant six wheels. Since one of his trades was a cook I
> visualize him with several wheels of cheese (g)
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> Joe
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Jan 13, 2018 6:04 PM
> >To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> >Subject: [Magdalen] Abjure
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> >Back in the day when I became a US citizen, I was wearing a US Army
> uniform and was not a Canadian citizen (there were no such things).
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> >I was an anonymous British Subject from somewhere or another on planet
> Earth.
> >I had no problem whatsoever in abjuring being a British Subject or giving
> up any allegiance to whatever that was.
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> >Had there been such a thing as Canadian citizenship, I might have had
> second thoughts, although I doubt it.
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