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I was told this tale many years ago,I don't know how true it is. a tramp decided to take a short cut through Haigh Hall grounds when he came across the Earl of Crawford who said to the tramp"get off my land" the tramp replied "its a free country I'll walk where I want" the earl said "my father fought for this land,his father before him and his father before him" the tramp said "I'll feyt thee for it if tha wants".

Oh, aristocrats! That is a great story about the tramp! So many earls and dukes, and oh to have been told as a child as I was that I was related to the Earl of Fife. Fifty years on and much ancestry research later, turns out I am - about a twenty-seventh cousin I think, with lots of farmers and poor fisherfolk in between!. lol!

This appears to be odd as David Edward Alexander Lindsay is not called Haigh but I am.

And so will I, tyde what may.

Does not the word confiscated also mean stolen, Haigh was confiscated from Sir Hugh De Haigh by Lancaster because Sir Hugh De Haigh rebelled against Lancaster because of what was hapenning in the 12th century.

Give us our lands back.

I met up with my third cousin Barry Knowles who used for play for Wigan Athletic, our Great Grandfather Robinson visits the Lord Crawford house back in 1911, with my Great Auntie Dorris, the Robinson side was rich middle class back ground, yet Great Auntie dorris brother was my Grandad Robinson, played for Wigan High feild and Leyland, followed with the 50 year Rugby league service, which is the Queen Victory build up and other sports being past down the family tree, the 50 year service for Rugby League was dated with two of my Ann-sisters under the King Henry IIIcensus 1200's, with Henry Robinson tree, my Great, Great, Great Grandfather and Micheal Murphy tree, My Great, Great Grandfather from southern Ireland, lived at the centre of wigan 1880's