You may not know the difference between aristocracy (natural) and nobility (appo

You may not know the difference between aristocracy (natural) and nobility (appointed by the state). Even though these terms are often conflated, they mean different things and they often overlapped.

Second Doolittle “De Dolietta” is a Norman name from the coast east of Mont St Michele, and my ancestors were literate involved in political decisions and in written records before the norman conquest. My family history takes eight volumes with additional supplements. And on my grandmother’s side they are only three generations removed from scottish nobility (forbush, forbes etc). In early new england literature they’re referred to as lesser aristocracy.

So there hasn’t been a peasantry in my family that we know of at least since the that time. Although there is some tragedy that occurs in southern england during the plague – which is when many names were affected by the collapse in population and literacy.

In fact it wasn’t even until the 1950s that we saw outbreeding. My father was disinherited for marrying a catholic.

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