(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

[David Stockhoff]

I just saw Roy's calculation that Ouen would have been about 2 years old 
when Dorcas died, which means at least 1. That would rule out any 
"normal" childbirth fatality.

On 12/6/2010 7:51 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> David Stockhoff- However, if this were a Gothic mystery, we would assume the father was
>> at least hiding something to protect his son---such as, she killed herself some time during
>> Ouen's first year. Most people raised on such half-truths would not question such a small discrepancy.
>
> I can agree with your thinking. Moreover if we parse Ouen's statement more tightly:
>
>> Ouen: I never knew her, sieur.  Cas they called her, but she died when I was young.
>> in childbirth, my father said.
>
> we could infer that Ouen finds the name "Cas" and "died when I was young" to be fact but
> "in childbirth" to be in question; that part described as his father's words only.
>
> If so, I concur with Ouen that his father, the boat guy on the Lake of Birds, is a deceiver, not
> to be believed at face value.
>
>> What else could this hide?
> What indeed.
>
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