So... French influence. My great-great-grandmother was a Mare. My six-greats-grandfather was born in 1769. His grandfather was born most probably in France, but probably ended up in Italy beforehand as he was a Huguenot.
Oh, wow! That's cool you know that much genealogy!
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights