Always this writer has said if there was such a thing as making a wish for the gift of one or two talents in a second life on Earth it would be for remembering names of persons and knowing how to be a “Gombey' dancer.' But if I lived to be as old as Methuselah there are three names I'm unlikely to forget.They were Agatha, A'Linda and A'Lona. They're the alliterative names William Arthur 'Pompeii' Lambert gave his three lovely daughters who were born and bred in the White Hill area of Sandys Parish.Pompeii himself was a legend in his own right. It seemed that almost everyone in the West End got to know of and respect the Lambert girls for their charm and sophistication. They were the envy of their peers. They were always together as youngsters, and there was something about their names that had an inexplicable impact.Also, there was something extraordinary about Pompeii Lambert. He was born in1878. That's shortly after William Booth was in the midst of establishing the Salvation Army in England in 1865. The Army spread to Canada in 1882, and in the same time frame to Bermuda.Pompeii was aged 97 when he died in 1976. His obituary noted that when the Salvation Army arrived in Bermuda with its unique uniforms, lively singing and direct preaching, many converts were won in the first weeks. “Bro.Lambert was one of the first soldiers to be enrolled.” He was a good singer and was soon heard as a soloist.He organised a singing brigade in the Corp, and when the opportunity came to learn to play an instrument, he undertook to master the coronet. He became bandmaster of a small corp of bands locally and had the privilege in 1904 of travelling to London as a member of the Bermuda Band that attended the International Congress conducted there by the Army's Founder.Bro. Lambert was a highly skilled stone mason by trade. How he got his nickname after that ancient Roman city was not known. He was an industrious, hardworking man, esteemed in the community-at-large as a man of sterling character, upright spiritually and physically. His obituary noted that throughout his lifetime he never ceased to encourage and pray for wayward ones.Pompeii is credited with building many structures in the country, including the Army Citadel on the property adjacent to his homestead atop White Hill. He and his wife Susan had four sons in addition to their three daughters. They were all dedicated in the Army.The sons were Adolpheus, who became a builder like his father; George, who resided in Montréal and for many years was a conductor on the Canadian National Railway; Gordon, who was tragically killed in his early teens when he fell from a horse and buggy; and Edward who died as a young child.The only surviving siblings were three(at the time of this writing), in their nineties, happily spending the evening of their lives together as residents of the Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence at Kent Avenue, Devonshire.Linda and that is (was) her correct name although many called her ‘A'Linda,' for rhyme and alliteration with the names of her brother and two sisters (was at that writing) aged 99. She became Mrs. Linda Rosetta Barclay, the mother of three, daughter Mrs. Geraldine Francis, a nurse; son Ellsworth an accountant and private entrepreneur and Christopher a music teacher at Whitney Institute. She was married to Lionel Rudolph Barclay, who is deceased. In 1998 she received the Government's Community Achievement Award.Mrs. Barclay was forced to leave school at the age of 13, to care for her chronically ill mother. Through self-education she was able to get a position as an assistant at Somers College in Southampton under the Rev. Mr. Walker. She guided pupils in the area of drama and had a lifelong passion for old-fashioned plays.Other sisters were A'Lona and Agatha, the only one of the trio who did not marry, is 99.A'Lona became the wife of Elliott Simons, one of the three or four Simons brothers (Arthur, Elliott and Austin ‘Toes' Simons) (along with the Hunt brothers, including Alma Hunt) their cousins, who helped make Somerset Cricket Club virtually invincible in the annual Somerset-Sr.George's Cup Match in the late 1920s and the 1930s. A'Lona was noted for her many prize-winning entries in the Annual Agricultural Exhibition. Also for her membership in the Women's Auxiliaries Somerset C.C., and the Somerset Brigade Band; and the St. James Church Stage Group of which she was a founding member in 1968.Agatha Lambert was a qualified hairdresser, who trained at the famous Apex School of Grooming in New York, where she resided for 30 years. She made the headlines when singled out in 2004 for the first Cable Vision Community Service Award. Miss Lambert was cited for the example she set in personally sweeping and otherwise ensuring that Laffan Street bordering her home and the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Hamilton was clean and tidy.