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Kenneth Bisley-Brown

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Kenneth Report 27 Oct 2004 19:43

As a point of interest for Joyces - a few years ago, a broadcaster called Robert Kee was presenting a TV programme called "Ireland - a television history". As one example of inward migration to Ireland and to illustrate the impact of the various Viking 'invasions' he showed by going to a village in Normandy that a particular name (unique to that village) had survived in Ireland to the present. The Norman French (they were Vikings too!!) name is La Jois....the Irish over many years corrupted it to Joyce. Spookily, when this programme was on TV, I had an American friend called Mike Lajoye......he was of French-Canadian descent. Guess where his ancestors were from!! We were staggered to realise that although only distantly - we are actually related. In the unlikely event that Mike reads this - please get in touch with me....Ken Brown (grandmother Eleanor Joyce)