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

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 – Member

On 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 – Moderator

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.

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 Northern European who looks as if he could be from anywhere between Moscow and the West of Ireland.