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Old 01-08-2009, 23:26   #11
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1

Perhaps the residents of Bismarck Strasse were inspired to change the name following the royal family doing the same thing.

After they'd changed their actual family name from Saxe-Coburg Goethe, to one they made up, Windsor.
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