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Topic: OT - Weird History

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5124 on: June 17, 2025, 12:53:34 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on June 17, 2025, 11:57:22 AM
I was today years old when I learned that several of my relatives (grandfather and great grandfather) were named for a martyr of the Revolutionary War. Crazy.
I've been trying to research something that I think is similar in my ancestry.  One of my ancestors from NW PA was born in the 1820s and named "Perry".  Given that the family had lived in NW PA for quite some time my best guess is that his father served in the US Navy on the Great Lakes under Commodore Perry and named his kid for the Commodore but I can't actually find anything to support that theory other than the circumstances.  

In the meantime I'll have a beer at Put-In-Bay in celebration of Commodore Perry's and (probably) my ancestor's victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie!  
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial - Wikipedia
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