13-09-2022, 10:46 AM
I may have to change mine... as since my father's death, in the tradition of our European cousins, I am apparently able to use the title Nicholas baron von Hartman. The positioning of the baron with a little b shows this to be typical of a Baltic barony, passed through male and female issue and not only to the first born... so not exactly exclusive. Then there's the small issue of my grandfather... who again harking back to different times, was neither Lettington (my father's step dad) nor Neilsen (his mother's husband) but a dashing Italian naval attaché in Tientsin named Giovani Anfosse... even given names don't always tell much of the story!