Kids - The Sun never sets on our family

At its zenith it was said the sun never sets on the British Empire because the sun was always shinning somewhere on British territory.

In 1821, a Scottish newspaper called the Caledonian Mercury wrote, “On her dominions the sun never sets; before his evening rays leave the sires of Quebec, his morning beams have shone three hours on Port Jackson [Australia] and while sinking from the waters of Lake Superior [Ontario], his eye opens upon the Mouth of the Ganges [India].”



My American grandfather Andrew Haggerty was of Irish ancestry who had a different opinion of the bloody English as he would describe them saying the truth is the sun never sets on the British Empire because God wouldn't trust the British in the dark.

Yet his great grandparents Thyne were English and his wife Rose’s grandparents the McKay’s Scottish. My father’s parents were and Polish and my father told me his great grandfather was part of the Russian Cossacks. On the other side of the world my wife was born and raised in the Philippines and has Spanish heritage in her family. She is American citizen.

So the sun never sets on our family as we have relatives on different sides of the world and the sun is always shinning upon our relatives somewhere in the world.




[credit: video “The Might of the British Empire!! Posted by 97Coats; US/Philippine flag from cia.gov ]