I don't know about "Our Colly" but the link below has the story of Joe's ancestors as told in "Sinai Tapestry"

Anne

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: : Anne--
: I did not KNOW anything about the O'Sullivan
: Beare clan, but I was getting there.
: Tell me, "Our Colly" was for real,
: that's it?
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: Yakouba was the subject of a book by William
: Seabrook. I'll have to look it up, but it
: seems the White Monk didn't live in the same
: time frame as "Strongbow".
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: As for Johann Luigi Burckhardt, he was one
: of the first Christians/white men to enter
: Medina, and he rediscovered Petra. His name
: is mentioned in Jericho Mosaic, which
: aroused my suspicions.
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: I'll keep you posted.
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: Jean-Daniel
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: I knew about Numa Numantius and I have tried
: to find references to Yakouba and Johann
: Luigi (recently)
:
: I suppose you already know about the
: O'Sullivan Beare Clan.
:
: Google is a wonderful thing.
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: Cheers,
:
: Anne
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: I just wrote:
: Did you know that
: some of the more extravagant characters in
: the Quartet are not fictitious? Numa
: Numantius and Yakouba, the White Monk of
: Timbuktu, for instance.
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: How about a new feature on this site,
: "Historical Sources of the
: Quartet," for instance?
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: Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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: Check Johann Luigi Burckhardt on Google...
:
: Who needs fantasy? Reality beats the hell
: out of it anytime.
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: Jean-Daniel (still waiting for 50,000 people
: to show up: they want to see this baby fly)
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