What a coincidence

I don’t know if it’s the evolution of DNA or if it a coincidence but people are getting more and more interested in there ancestry. This week alone there have been 3 programs on British television with regard to my interest in my ancestry.

The first on was Steven Barkers story after a 10 year study, how his interpretation of the use of the Domesday Book was not written for taxation prepossess , it was about power, control, ownership, and law, it was about something far more important than money.

Second there is a program called Time Team .They are a team of archaeologists’ who carry out digs mainly by the national trust. This week they were on the Isle of Mull, located in the Scottish Isles, and they found a chapel built by St Columba. On a monastery which no one knew of existed because of a spelling mistake, or an error in the interpretation in a translation St Columba started Christianity in the British Isles, maybe Europe.It was dated about year 500

The third one is a program called The Story of Ireland Fergal Keane explores Ireland’s history, documenting its role on the international stage. He begins by revisiting the origins of Celtic people looking on the impact on early Christianity and monasticism, and the birth of Ireland’s literary culture.

The connection between the three is The Domesday book was the first record of commoners needing and having a surname.

The Time Team dig was not far from The Isle of Bute where the family were land owners in the 1580.

The Story of Ireland was because The McCaw’s move to Ireland and became part of the Ulster Scotts.