#141 HEALING, HOPE OR HUMBUG
The ancestral home of my Netterfields is in County Cavan, Ireland. From there, my branch of the family emigrated to Canada in the 1840s and another branch went to Australia. There were also Netterfields already living in the USA by the late 1700s; I am not sure if/how they might be related but Netterfield is not a common surname so there is a good chance that many Netterfield families are related within a relatively small number of generations. I stumbled across this William Netterfield in my research and even if we are not distant cousins, his story is just too much fun not to be written. His second wife, Anna, was equally unique and controversial. WILLIAM “ESPANTO” NETTERFIELD William Netterfield was born on...
