Feb-19-08 | | brankat: Leiden! He must be one of <EmperorAtahualpa>'s ancestors :-) |
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Oct-30-12 | | thomastonk: He died Sep-26-1867. |
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Oct-30-12
 | | Stonehenge: According to the cemetery he died Jan-10-1868.
http://www.begraafplaatsgroenesteeg... |
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Oct-30-12 | | thomastonk: <Stonehenge> Thank you for the response. But I have found and checked independent sources before I kibitzed the correct date. Here is one of them http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?.... Moreover I have seen the family's death notice in two newspapers from Oct-03-1867 and their expression of condolences at the end of that month. |
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Oct-30-12
 | | Stonehenge: Ok thanks, I've changed the date. |
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Nov-05-12 | | thomastonk: <Stonehenge> I have asked the cemetery to check his day of death, and now I got a response. They made a mistake before, and he died in fact on Sep-26-1867, as the other sources say. |
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Nov-05-12
 | | Stonehenge: Wow, that's great work. Even cemeteries make mistakes :) |
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Nov-05-12 | | Xeroxx: weird name |
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Nov-05-12
 | | Stonehenge: Oliphant is old Dutch for olifant = elephant :) |
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Nov-05-12 | | thomastonk: <Stonehenge: olifant = elephant> I think, things are much more fantastic. The Oliphants are a prominent Scottisch family whose history is at least 700 years old. The family has its origin in France and the name is derived from the Norman Olifard. In the nineteenth century, the family was without male head, and a twenty year search by laywers for the true heir ended at one Carel Naret Oliphant, a wigmaker from Leiden! You can find this, if you follow a link given in C.N. 6895 at Ed Winter's chess history page (and this C.N. provides my identity, too). |
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Nov-05-12
 | | Stonehenge: Danke schön, Herr Doktor! |
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Nov-06-12 | | thomastonk: <Stonehenge> I prepare an update on Oliphant for Ed Winter's chess history page, and I am going to mention the link to the cemetery because of Oliphant's picture there. So, I would like to acknowledge your help, but I don't like to write <Stonehenge at chessgames.com>. Do you have another idea? |
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Nov-06-12
 | | Stonehenge: Yes, there's no need to mention me at all. You would have found that link yourself anyway :) |
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Nov-06-12 | | thomastonk: <Stonehenge> I am sorry, but that's impossible, because it would seriously contradict the rules of scientific work. |
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Nov-06-12
 | | HeMateMe: You simply can't ignore the Oliphant in the room. |
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Nov-06-12 | | whiteshark: The Illusion Of Choice |
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Nov-19-12 | | Xeroxx: What does <white sharks> have to do with chess? |
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Nov-19-12 | | whiteshark: It's the strongest piece in the pool... |
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Feb-19-13 | | waustad: <stonehenge>Doktor Schön? Where's Lulu then, or maybe Jack the Ripper? |
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Feb-19-19 | | Nosnibor: Did he have a sister named Nellie Oliphant ? |
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