One of my cousins managed to trace the 'Hicks' branch of our family back to 1066 and William the Conqueror.
She couldn't understand my under-enthusiasm.

It seems also that a relation, Nicholas Hicks, sailed with Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery of New Zealand, and 'Young Nick's Head' on the east coast of the North Island is named for him.

Whoop-dee.

Who cares?
I most certainly don't.

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