Samieso was born to a stable family with two parents. His father worked in the peat marshes, shoveling cart loads of peat and dung all day. Sam's mother stayed home and drank, claiming it was an integral part of home making. Sam never saw his mother do any of the other parts of the job. Growing up Sam had the opportunity to go to school and a boarding academy. At the academy the children loved his golden locks of hair and his red apple cheeks, they called him a fancy lad. Being a fancy lad was in Samieso's blood and he dreamed of the day he'd be able to prance around freely on the Celtic hills. It was at the academy that he met his first childhood sweetheart a large African woman named Nombit. Sam and Nombit hit it off famously and spent a memorable summer holding each other's hands under