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Going back a couple of generations, I'm English, Irish, French, Spanish & Flemish.
Beat that you mongrel swine. 🙂
Dad's parents are from good Lancashire mining stock and me Mam's are from Guersney and Scotishland
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.
Co. Derry.
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!!
1/4 Inuit, 1/4 Aboriginal, 1/4 Pygmy, 1/4 Mayan and 1/4 Welsh.
100 % C..........
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)
mummy's tummy
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!
Born in Florida to English parents.
mummy's tummy
you guys are the salt of the earth - lovely! Absolutely lovely! 😀
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!
Me: English, Scots, Manx, smidgeon of French.
Missus: English, Welsh.
Not a bad mix 😀
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
Scouse, although dad is Glaswegian, and both sides hail from south west Ireland a couple of generations back.
Some Normans invaded Ireland - did some raping and pilaging - met some Scots - married some locals and here I am!
Don't know who my dad was. But Cornwall on my mums side.
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.
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..
Scottish-born English/American with Scottish/German/Swedish/Jewish ancestors a couple of generations back. Daughter adds Japanese to the mix.
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.
Mostly Yorkshire - going back to the 1300s.
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.
You're not the best at maths are you? 😆TheBrick - Member
1/4 Inuit, 1/4 Aboriginal, 1/4 Pygmy, 1/4 Mayan and 1/4 Welsh.
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
english and irish (and probably US, but not sure where that fits in to the line at the moment)
Out my mum's arse. Obviously.
Born in India to a scouse mum and a Notts dad, but way back Cumbria border area, with the border rievers of Gunn clan...
Cockney
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.
mum - 1/2 Indian 1/2 polish
dad - English but with some scottish background somewhere in the past
Born in Scotland, one parent Scottish don't have a clue about the other, grandparents from Ireland and Germany via England o
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.
My Pa is from Dublin my Ma is from Ashby dela Zouch or some such place
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! 😆
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.
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.
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.
Ethiopia.
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.
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.
Vermont and Boston, USA by way of Crankbrook, Kent.
Mums side Scandinavian dads side only been traced back to midlands generations of builders and engineers now stopped with me and my cousin.
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.
A couple of generations back both sides have neep kicking teuchter roots in Rhynie, deepest Aberdeenshire. And I'm more than happy about that as my ancestral landscape...
Further back on my mums side there is some Manchester in the mix. Well at least it's northern.
Then AndyF1 has it...
But ultimately, surely, the primordial soup!
Grandparents were decended from german (got a family 'village' on Skye!) and irish immigrants, english parents, born in wales 🙂
Isle of Man on my Dad's side many moons ago and Northumberland/Cumria Borders region on my Mother's side. They were drovers so you have my family to thank for many of the bridleways and drovers roads in Northumberland and Cumbria that you may ride.
Norf Laaaaandaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn!
don't know don't care.
Mix of London dockers and Irish royal marines (around 1850's)
My old man was a Pathan from the Khyber pass, and my mum was half American half Scottish (GI baby)
Proper mongrel I am.... 8)
1/2 English, 1/2 French Algerian...and that second half is well mixed if you go back further.
Would love to go to my mum's home town (Algiers) but that seems to remain out of the question for the foreseeable...
Grandparents from one side are from London whilst my Mums parents were Czech and Austrian.
v boring mums from scotland (Elgin) and Dad's from Banbury...Boring
My Dad thrust greatness upon my Mum, she achieved greatness, I was born.
tomhoward - MemberOn my dads side- Huddersfield since just before the dawn of time.
Mothers side for me!
Father side mostly Dutch & potteries
Welsh/Irish mostly.
Scouse but coming from southern ireland before that and just found out our family trade was slave trading!
my dad and his family for generations are County Clare, my mum is a londoner but her family is from devon,
forest of dean only
15/16 English 🙂
1/16 Scottish 🙁 😆
That Welsh Wales.
Mum and Dads family both go back a few generations in and around Southwark in London...
Drac - ModeratorIsle of Man on my Dad's side many moons ago and Northumberland/Cumria Borders region on my Mother's side. They were drovers so you have my family to thank for many of the bridleways and drovers roads in Northumberland and Cumbria that you may ride.
Thankyou for the Northumbrian bridleways I ride. Now, would you mind apologising for all that cow sh*t?
Ayrshire, Scotland
Given surname and place of Birth about 1000 years of clan history and all that.
Living memory pretty much all from the same village/area...my grandparent were at school together.
Most of my life spent away from Scotland and I talk with a northern accent.
In the words of Neneh Cherry.. quarter Puerto Rican, two fiths Chinese.
Not really, mixture or Irish and English (whatever those are)
Born in Leeds, both parents from Leeds. 4 generations back on maternal side, Co Mayo, and vaguely remember dad's maternal grandmother living in Oxford
Ancestor ("Duddah") set up a cottage in the midlands 5th century, later becoming the town of Dudley. Mercenary. Danish origin.
Parents are from the same town on the Wirral.
Grandparents from West Derby, Wirral and Norfolk.
GG from Dublin, Mannheim, Lancashire and Norfolk. Further back from that is unknown.
Mother Scottish, father Burmese, born in london's east end, moved to Inverness at 2 months old,brought up by my Scottish gran and English grandad, currently live in southern Scotland commonly known as Warwickshire, throw into that once being married to a Co. Derry girl, I've two fantastic Irish boys, used to be forced to Wales every summer to see my welsh cousins, that covers the mainland and N.Ireland, as for the Burmese side, I've no idea after having no contact with my father.
Tedious Scots, Irish and Welsh, mostly.
It is interesting to note at this point how much of an interest (even otherwise not particularly bothered people) people take in their supposed historical origin. I say supposed only because many/most people's stories (inc my own) will contain factual errors and butcherings of history.
Bolton born and bred to a Boltonian and a cockney who were both conceived by the irish. My surname seems more Polish than Irish though.
On my father's side a small village in Devon back to the 17th Century with possibly some Spanish (probably family myth though), less sure on my mother's side - Hertfordshire and Irish seem to be the best guesses.
Me - Bath
Mother - Bath
Father - Oxford
Before that, the only 'foreign blood' we have been able to trace within the last 100 years or so, was a young lady called Minnie Donovan who was from County Cork. She was a replacement for my great grandfather's former wife (who died young) called....wait for it....Minnie Donovan (no relation). Could she have been chosen so he didn't have to remember a new name? Good planning if yes!
Long before that, on my mother's side some Huguenot's make a brief appearance.
This information appears courtesy of two family genealogists but I have no idea how accurate the pre 20th Century stuff is.
Romford
I'm Bristolian through and through, both my parents families can be traced back through numereous generations, and it's always birth registered in Bristol.
On researching my surname, it's supposed to be Cornish, but that's got to be going back some!
Bristol
Zummerzet
Forest of Dean
Caribbean
China
Scandinavia
France
Proper mongrel, me 🙂
Going by town, all over. Horncastle, Lincs. and Tipperary feature on my father's side, while Wootton Bassett and Wrington, Zummerzet on my mother's side feature a lot (but half of them ended up in Oz/NZ).
Only found 1 murderer in the family so far 😯
But I'm 100% Kentish.
Going back 150 years or so:
Wales, Lancs, Scotland, Somerset(they had a Breton name) and Bucks/Northants (Norman name). No evidence of Irish, despite these people all merging together in Liverpool.
Despite/because of this Great Britain (and French) ancestry I am a fair-haired [i]Northern European[/i] who looks as if he could be from anywhere between Moscow and the West of Ireland.