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Wow thanks for all the responses!

When I first started my tree I had the belief that people did not really travel that much, now of course I have found people moved for all sorts of reason, money, romance, to avoid detection, avoid prison lots of things!

I just wonder if they ever thought that there generations to come would live in entirely differing parts of the world or if living in another country who have been an almost impossible concept to grasp, if they were a family of labourers etc like mine seem to ahev been.

Like many of you, I have no one famous, I don't seem to be anyone's missing heir) etc, but it is is just interesting to see if families move, when they moved and why...

Thanks for all your responses thus far!

A complete cocktail:-))lol Welsh,English,Jamaican and,,................
..I have found out so much doing my research No wonder Im confused:-))lol

Hey, Bernie, perhaps we are related!!!

Mothers mum had her in 1927, NO father on cert, another 1940, Father mentioned but not living with her, not wed either.

Father had son to legitimate marriage six months before me. Never did marry mum, despite three kids and living together for twenty years

And i've lost count of the "short" pregnancies following weddings.

So far my tree is 100% English, half Yorkshire & half Essex.
Though I know there's an Irish link on my dads side which I'm yet to explore. And a supposed Scottish link in one of my mums branches (yet to be found).

Steve
:o)

LOL Annina, so you had a hypocrite for a parent as well? So did I, my mum was Queen Victoria reincarnate, no sex unless there was a ring. Then when I started doing my family history I discovered that both her grandmothers were illegitimate and also that her great grandfather was the result of a bigamous marriage!

Mum must be turning in her grave.!!!

Dear All

Hello

I think about 95% English, sort of.

Most of my ancestors came from South England.

But I feel really attuned to celtic things. Maybe there is a link there.

I would love to find out where my gyspy ancestors originally came from.
No luck so far.

Best wishes to all
xx

And a lot of mine came from the wrong side of the blanket.

And mum was sooooooooooo straight laced.

B""""y hypocrite!!!!

I always thought I was pure Yorkie, to start with I am Derbyshire from my Dad but they never really moved that far from the border. ( Sheffield areas did change bounderies )
My Mum's family 2 generations back are from Cumberland. But we never moved that far really.

my family are 98 % yorkshire

Through my childhood, my GT.Grandfather, my mother's Grandfather, has been 'a big fat dark Irishman, an Jew and a Gypsy, according to her. So, when I first started to put things together, it was not easy. Well, to the best of my knowledge, and various records, he was none of these. Nor was he 'big and fat', not according to a photo rescently acquired. Rather a short wizened man according to the photo. But, then none of us are very big, and one of his brothers was a jockey for the Kaiser, as was his cousins. No, they are Northants through and through, though some moved just over the border to Cambridge, but only just.
Now, I am having problems going back further than the records held at Northants Records, as the records for Eye Northants, have 'not stood the test of time' . I have though found a marriage in 1739, and that is it.
But, it got me thinking about the Huguenot Settlement at Thorney, just down the road for Eye, and wondered if that is where my 7x Gt.Grandad came from, as I think he was an incomer to Eye on his possible 2nd. marriage.
So, my question is, did the Huguenots keep their own records for BMD, and would a French Protestant, over the years turn to Baptist.
I have put out some searches on Records,and History board about the Huguenots in general, as I know there has been posts on here about two years ago, about this subject.
Many thanks
Julia in Derbyshire

My husband Always tells me he is English not British through and through

BUT i have proved he is in fact 25% English, 25% Irish, 25% Danish and 25% German!!

His German grandfather and grandmother NEVER learnt to speak English !!!!

As for me 55% English and 25% Irish, but always feel at home in Ireland even though I have no relatives left there!

Bridget

On my dads side, paternal mostly lead miners in Derbyshire, maternal Yorkshire cutlers or stone masons.

I am with Pat Kendrick, my mothers Kendricks all from another planet, can't get further than maternal grandma,

How do I put this into percentages?

I was born in Australia.
2 parents - both born in Australia
4 grandparents - 3 born Australia, 1 England
8 gr/grandparents - 4 born Australia, 4 born England
16 gr/gr/grandparents - 15 born England, 1 born Ireland
before that - all born in England (and maybe Ireland).

My OH came from Liverpool and his tree goes back to the 16th century - all from Lancashire - so my children are more English than I am!

Fathers side - 90% Leicestershire, 5% Yorks, 5% Suffolk.

Mothers side- 95% Suffolk , 5% Norfolk.

Way way back nearly 100% Viking!

xxxxxx mick

On dad's side, 50% Prussian and 50% English.

On mam's side, 50% Irish, 25% English and 25% French.

interesting thread - I cant put mine into percentages yet as I've got a about one third scottish so far, certainly irish but theres a lot from London but cant get them back prior to 1800 so who knows and as I am adopted havent traced fathers side as cant find him. I'm still trying to get my head around things following my stroke in April but hope to find out more soon. It would be great to find a medeteraen link or something more exotic

100% Bagdad

English 100%,so far, from Cambridgeshire and Essex

100% Norwich on Dad's side,Ag labs and shoemakers.
Mums side was Scottish/Irish, Glasgow./Clackmannanshire

Back to 1641 on Dad's side of the tree and 1690 on Mum's.

No famous people. No royal blood. No links with celebs (thank goodness), no rich ancestors. Just Ag Labs, miners, shipbuilders, servants, railway workers, millers, ironmongers, carpenters, soldiers, sailors.

Pure one hundred per cent English yeoman stock and very very proud of it.