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My maternal grandmother, Georgina Roberta Murray, born in 1850, was the thirteenth child, and was named after two older sons who had died in childhood. She often visited my parents, and urged us children to get up in the morning with ‘Rise Cornelius, and put on thy pompeycrackers, and go and see a rye cockalorum go along the road with a high cockalorum on his tail’. We never knew what she was talking about, but any child would get up to dress in ‘pompeycrackers’.