you can imagine my astonishment, when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort I hope, that the 'Sam Gamgee' of my story is a most heroic charactor, now widely beloved my many readers, event though his origins are rustic.
I lived near Birmingham as a child, and we used 'Gamgee' as a word for 'cotton-wool'; so in my story the famifies of Cotton and Gamgee are connected. I did not know as a child, though I know now, that 'Gamgee' was shortened from 'Gamgee-tissue', and that it was named after its inventor (a surgeon I think) who lived between 1828 and 1886.