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muriel_volestrangler

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12. I found out a relative of mine was a director of the South Sea Company

Reply to MowCowWhoHow III (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 08:21 PM

Nov 2015

(since you bring up that meme, and style of dress) - a cousin of my direct ancestor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

At the height of the South Sea mania, people were inventing all kinds of companies for investment, many with obviously ridiculous aims, like perpetual motion. But the best of all was only described as "for carrying-on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is". And the grifter (not my relative) took in money for one morning, and then fled the country in the afternoon.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZLHTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73

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