On May 19, 9:29=A0am, Papa Andy <playisomemu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 12, 12:25=A0am, Canuck <prwhit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > David Kaiser, author of THE ROAD TO DALLAS, cites my article "Did
David
> > Ferrie Lie To The Secret Service?" and the attached two-year long
distan=
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> > phone list that I compiled, drawn from the Bell South phone bills that
> > were turned over to Garrison's office. =A0What is most significant
about=
> > Ferrie's use of two office phones is the quantity and variety of
locatio=
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> > phoned during the period from early 1961 to the fall of 1963, as well
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> > fact that the only phone bill that was not included happened to be the
> > most im****tant - November, 1963. Intriguingly, a couple of calls did
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> > up on the Dec. 1963 bill, including a collect call from Houston made
on
> > Nov. 18 I believe. =A0You can read the article
athttp://mcadams.posc.mu.=
edu/whitmeyferrie.htm, along with the 12 - page
> > long distance list.
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- Peter R. Whitmey
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> seems he spelled your name wrong though
>
> A
That happens all the time, but it is spelled correctly in the endnotes
section. Prof. Kaiser probably spelled it correctly, but the typist
likely changed the "m" to "n". Btw, I have traced my last name back
to my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Isaac Whitmey, who
was married in Shenley, Buckingham****re, England in 1718.
Unfortunately, there is no christening record for him at the church
where he was married. A first cousin-once removed named Gary Whitmey
(which means his father is my first cousin) actually lives near
Shenley (which is listed in the Domesday Book, no on-line). He looked
at the actual church records, which have been recorded by the Mormon
Church and are available at their website.
There is only one family named "Whitmey" in the U.S., who live in Dana
Pt., CA, but amazingly, we are not related. They are also from
England, but not the same area of the country, and a family member has
also gone back to the 1700s.
At that time, there were many people with the name "Whitmey" in
various counties, but I guess over the years most of the men must have
changed their names to "Whitney", while most of the women, of course,
got married. There are only two families in Canada with the name, and
the father (Edward, now deceased) and my father were second cousins
(which makes his four children and me third cousins), but they didn't
know about each other. Edward and his family moved to Peace River,
Alberta in the late 1940s, and one of his sons is an actor named Nigel
Whitmey (married to John Thaw's daughter - "Inspector Morse"). Nigel
moved to England in 1986. He looks a lot like my father (now
deceased).
- Peter R. Whitmey
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