Gilles: Grandma's aunt Klazien

[M.J. Prior]

Hi y'all and especially Gilles,

Yes, DD2002-36 is the right issue. The contents match my 
recollections of it. I'm sorry that I provided wrong 
information concerning the relationship of the characters 
and I'm glad Bernard's been able to supply the right data.

[Mr. Trouwhart is the original owner of Grandma's farm. 
Klazien marries Trouwhart's son Bertus. Bertus disappears. 
Grandma inherits the farm.]

I think this story implies that Grandma wouldn't have got 
the farm if her aunt Klazien hadn't married Bertus 
Trouwhart, right? So Klazien must be either the sister of 
Clinton Coot or Gertrude Gadwall, Grandma's parents.

If Klazien'd been a Coot, the farm would still have come 
from the Coot-side of the family.

If, instead, one takes Bertus as the brother of Gertrude, 
Klazien could still be Grandma's aunt and Grandma would 
still be able to claim in Lo$ 10 that the farm belonged to 
her grandfather (being Mr. Trouwhart, not Cornelius Coot).

Perhaps Gertrude was already married to Clinton Coot, 
which explains why she didn't live with her parents 
anymore, which might be why she doesn't appear in this 
story.

[Moreover, this solution would provide the Dutch Gertrude 
(Petronella) with a maiden name (Trouwhart) which lacks in 
the Dutch version of Rosa's Family Tree.]

I think Bernard's 'Goodheart' is a good translation for 
'Trouwhart', but 'Trueheart' is still a bit more true to 
the 'original' version. (Of which I'm not sure: this is 
this story's first publication, but the original script 
was probably not written in Dutch.) 
[But you won't need 'Trueheart' if you decide Trouwhart to 
be the father of Gertrude Gadwall.]

I agree with Sigvald that this story's a bit hard to fit 
into Don Rosa's Coot-farm-construction, but that's imho no 
reason to dismiss it as utter nonsense.

Michiel Prior.