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[Closed] So, going back a bit, where do you come from?

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Going back a couple of generations, I'm English, Irish, French, Spanish & Flemish.

Beat that you mongrel swine. 🙂


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:35 pm
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Dad's parents are from good Lancashire mining stock and me Mam's are from Guersney and Scotishland


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:39 pm
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I can be traced back to an Irish bloke from County Mayo and a Russian lass that met in Portsmouth many moons ago.

I am personally from the Peoples Republic of West Yorkshire exiled to South Wales with two kids both born in Hereford from a Geordie mum.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:41 pm
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Co. Derry.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:44 pm
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We think that our surname came over from Scandinavia with the raping and pillaging Vikings although my anscestors were probably dull and did more cooking than pillaging!!


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:44 pm
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1/4 Inuit, 1/4 Aboriginal, 1/4 Pygmy, 1/4 Mayan and 1/4 Welsh.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:46 pm
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100 % C..........


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:47 pm
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Me - Bristol
Parents/Grandparents/Great grandparents (except for 1) - Wales

The exception was my maternal grandfather's father who was from Zummerzet (which may or may not explain my liking for cider).

Legend has it he was one of them druid types (which may or may not explain my beard)


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:47 pm
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mummy's tummy


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:48 pm
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I would like to say British!
But, my mum and dad are from England, the surname is from ireland and some of the odd genetics (i.e. coeliacs disease) i believe is from the netherlands (where i get the blondie looks from !)and the coeliacs disease of course!


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:55 pm
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Born in Florida to English parents.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:57 pm
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mummy's tummy

you guys are the salt of the earth - lovely! Absolutely lovely! 😀


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:57 pm
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Mostly Scottish, partly English with a smidgen of French in there.

Son has all that plus some Welsh and Cypriot blood to go with the added bonus of more Scottish blood too!


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 10:58 pm
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Me: English, Scots, Manx, smidgeon of French.

Missus: English, Welsh.

Not a bad mix 😀


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:00 pm
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There is a parish in darkest shropshire where one part of my family are from. Traced back well into the 1700s. Mainly illiterate peasants called Martha.

Also west county / Cornwall but a tad of German and Londoner


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:03 pm
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Scouse, although dad is Glaswegian, and both sides hail from south west Ireland a couple of generations back.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:05 pm
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Some Normans invaded Ireland - did some raping and pilaging - met some Scots - married some locals and here I am!


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:06 pm
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Don't know who my dad was. But Cornwall on my mums side.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:09 pm
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Dad's side - very English, though there are rumours (which I deny) that my surname has Scottish roots.
Mum's side, half Welsh, half South African.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:09 pm
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mostly transient Devon and Somerset farm labourers for at least 2 or 3 generations (beyond my great grandparents)

my Granny on my Dads side however is a very dusky descendent of the Currie Clan.. my old man was a Weegie..


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:09 pm
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Scottish-born English/American with Scottish/German/Swedish/Jewish ancestors a couple of generations back. Daughter adds Japanese to the mix.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:10 pm
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If I remmber it right romanian, irish, scot & english mixed blood line going back to my granparents
If what I suspect is true then I would be the same as my half sister poss full sis
and that would be romanian, irish, ****stani & english mix.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:14 pm
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Mostly Yorkshire - going back to the 1300s.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:14 pm
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Bleak grim Fauldhouse crossed with London and Fleetwood by way of Fife with a dash of Western Isles a wee bit further back flinging me out in Clackmannanshire.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:15 pm
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1/4 Inuit, 1/4 Aboriginal, 1/4 Pygmy, 1/4 Mayan and 1/4 Welsh.
You're not the best at maths are you? 😆


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:15 pm
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On my dads side- Huddersfield since just before the dawn of time.
On the mothers side- her mum is a Geordie and dad is from portsmouth


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:17 pm
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english and irish (and probably US, but not sure where that fits in to the line at the moment)


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:17 pm
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Out my mum's arse. Obviously.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:18 pm
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Born in India to a scouse mum and a Notts dad, but way back Cumbria border area, with the border rievers of Gunn clan...


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:20 pm
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Cockney


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:23 pm
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Mum's family was from Yorkshire going back quite a bit, Bronte country.
Dad's was from Lancashire going back a few generations, Irish before that.

But my name can be traced back to 1066 and the arrival of the French.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:27 pm
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mum - 1/2 Indian 1/2 polish
dad - English but with some scottish background somewhere in the past


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:37 pm
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Born in Scotland, one parent Scottish don't have a clue about the other, grandparents from Ireland and Germany via England o


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:42 pm
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Yorkshire going back to the mid 1800's when part of the family came from the Northampton area , but it's obvious looking at my family that we've come from all over the place. My grandma/dad/sister are obvious Viking stock , my grandad has a very mediterranean/north african look about him.

Mrscarlos family is mentioned in a pre doomsday book census and we only live 3 miles away from the area they lived in way back when.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:43 pm
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My Pa is from Dublin my Ma is from Ashby dela Zouch or some such place


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:48 pm
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Ancestors once ruled the most populace country in the world during the Tang Dynasty then the Mongol invaded ... centuries later seeds were spread South ... Now I am in a strange land called GeordieLand. Wahey man! 😆


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:57 pm
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1/2 Irish 1/2 English but traced back to a Viking Chieftain. Originals came over from Normandy with William the conqueror. Small wonder that generations of my family have been military.


 
Posted : 22/06/2012 11:57 pm
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great grandma on my mums side married a roma gypsy, they came to england from dublin.
great grandad on my dads side came from east coast of scotland.
some relative of his, either dad or grandad came from norway.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 12:05 am
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Cornish, Kentish, Cockerny, Welsh, Glaswegian Dwarf, Irish Black and Tan, and another dwarf who was married to a soldier and lived in the tower of London. The two dwarves were conflated as being the same person on the family tree for a while, not because they were dwarves but because the were both exceptionally foul tempered.

Spent some time on the Kent marshes with my dad this year, we were down there for a family funeral, travelling a few miles from Stroud to the coast you go back a generation every 1/4 of a mile or so. Near Cliffe he told me about an ancestor who was a coast guard who had a rail bogie with sail on it. If the wind was favourable he'd sail to work along the railway line. Anyone unfortunate enough to be labouring in the fields when he finished his shift would be roped into pushing him back home again.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 12:12 am
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Ethiopia.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 12:34 am
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This thread lead me to a bit of googling, wasted about three hours reading about why we dont have 3 trillion ancestors and the like(interbreeding is the short answer)!

One interesting concept to pop up was the idea of the 36 clan mothers, so I'm having a guess this will as far back as I could get with mine, some burd called Tara from 15,000 BC! 😀 I've never did the DNA sequencing mind, just guessing the most likely from the descriptions....

http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55/

The clan of Tara
(Gaelic for rocky hill)
includes slightly fewer than 10% of modern Europeans. Its many branches are widely distributed throughout southern and western Europe with particularly high concentrations in Ireland and the west of Britain. Tara herself lived 17,000 years ago in the northwest of Italy among the hills of Tuscany and along the estuary of the river Arno.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 3:36 am
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I am descended from an Irish immigrant to London and Wiltshire farmers, nothing special.

My colleague is married to an African whose family name is Do Marinho, her family came back to West Africa a couple of generations ago from Brazil. The Brazilian family would have taken their name from the captain of the ship who carried them over as slaves, Do Marinho meaning "Of the sailor". The family owns prime real estate all over the city but can't prove it because nobody ever got any deeds when the rich Brazilian returnees went around buying up cheap farmland.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 6:03 am
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Vermont and Boston, USA by way of Crankbrook, Kent.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 6:21 am
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Mums side Scandinavian dads side only been traced back to midlands generations of builders and engineers now stopped with me and my cousin.


 
Posted : 23/06/2012 7:07 am
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Welsh on both sides for a couple of generations but a bit of Jewish on my mums side way back. Should do some digging at some time and unearth some secrets.


 
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