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I was looking at my Family Tree the other day and worked out from my grandparents that I am:
1/4 Cornish
1/4 Leicestershireish
1/4 Sussex
1/4 Ukrianian
how about you guys ?
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i am
1/4 yorkshire
1/4 nottinghamshire
1/2 warwickshire
how about trying to find the most counties in the family tree ???
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I am
1/2 Yorkshire
1/2 Londoner
Jane
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I am:
12/32 Yorkshire
8/32 Suffolk
4/32 Essex
4/32 Hampshire
2/32 London, long-term
1/32 Scots-Irish
1/32 straightforwardly Scottish
1/32 Worcestershire
1/32 London of Welsh/West Country extraction
1/32 Gloucestershire
1/32 Kent
Anna
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1/4 Northamptonshire
1/2 Monmouthshire
1/4 Worcestershire
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very good Anna! ;D
i have got further back then my grandparents on most sides except the Ukrainian side but didn't know how to express it!
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I'm too mixed up to do that. On my mom's side, I throw in loads of Irish, some Alsatian and some German. And one branch where we don't know where they came from. :-[ My dad had an English great-grandfather, and everyone else was Irish.
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3/4 English - I've a grandfather no-one knows!
I've traced all my other lines (some back to c1700) and only found one non-English ancestor so far
Steve
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3/4 Hampshire
1/4 Spanish
:)
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Welsh (Pembrokeshire)
German (Prussia)
Polish
Irish
Scottish
English
I'm not even going to try what percentage I am of each...although wouldn't it be cool if PAF has a stastics option, perhaps amount of people with so and so first name etc.?
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Cornish (my father's side - right up the line)
Irish (my maternal gr-father's side)
Welsh (my maternal grandmother's side)
Russian (my gr-gr-gr grandfather married a Cornish girl)
I'm not even going to try to work out percentages. ;D
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A bit of Irish, a bit of Yorkshire, some Essex, Berkshire, Leicestershire and London (so far)
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Derbyshire,staffordshire canadian/irish or scots (don't know where his family originates from) irish..
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My ancestry:
Canadian
Canadian Native
Scottish
English
Irish
German
French
and maybe some others that I haven't discovered yet.
Kathleen
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Yorkshire
Scotland
Bedfordshire
London! :D
Kent
Wiltshire
Somerset
...probably more to come, I've heard there's a German connection, just haven't found it yet :)
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Mostly Irish. Dublin and Armagh
Some Scottish.Edinburgh and Glasgow
Rest English. Staffs., Warwicks, Lancs and recently discovered Geordie :o
Kooky
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I'm a mongrel and proud of it:-
3/8 London
1/4 Irish
1/8 Herts.
1/8 Sussex
1/8 Suffolk
Stirred, not shaken with an olive :D
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1/2 London
1/4 Suffolk
1/4 Hertfordshire
Going back further there is a touch of Norfolk and Surrey with several unknowns that will never be known!!
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1/2 Kent (possibly with just a touch of East Sussex)
The other half a mix of Poland/Germany/Nottingham/Birmingham
OH seems to be 1/2 Kent with a bit of Sussex & 1/2 Yorkshire
Betty
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Northern Irish (Armagh, Down)
Southern Irish (Possibly either Kildare, Wexford, Wicklow or Waterford)
Lancashire
Lincolnshire
Cambridgeshire
Berkshire
America (Michigan)
Think theres prob more...lol
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Ooostershire born Ooostershire bred
Stong in me arm
Un thick in me yud.
Translation:
Worcestershire born Worcestershire bred
Strong in the arm
And thick in the head.
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I was born in Shropshire (which makes me English) BUT........
Mum & Dad - born Wales (Powys/Montgomeryshire)
Paternal Grandparents - born Wales (Powys/Montgomeryshire)
Maternal Grandparents - born Wales (Powys/Montgomeryshire)
Great Grandparents - 7 born Wales, 1 born Shropshire
Think that makes me Welsh ;) ;) ;D
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East Kent with a pinch of London, a smidgin of Norfolk and maybe a touch of Teeside.
There is a possible German connection but I haven't been able to follow that line yet.
The other areas in my research belong to my late wife (a proper mongrel! ;D) or side-lines.
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Irish, German, English, Canadian, Dutch, Welsh, French, Scottish...
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Totally Scottish back to the late 1700's so far, mainly Banffshire/Morayshire/Aberdeenshire with a bit of the Highlands :)
Elaine
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grandparents all from yorkshire
ggrandparents all from yorkshire
gggrandparents 2 from staffordshire all rest from yorkshire
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My main ones once we get out of Middx and go back further into the tree are Herefordshire/Gloucestershire, Scotland ( mainly Perthshire with Fife now peeping through), Leics, Dorset, and Hants.
I was quite surprised when working this out on my great grandparents that I am 4/8 Middx (the rest being 1/8 each of Herefordshire, Herts, Leics and Hants)
Beverley
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my great grandparents don't differ alot from my grandparents!
2/8 cornish
1/8 leicester
1/8 yorkshire
2/8 sussex
2/8 ukrainian.? - not found these guys yet
and back even further
3/16 cornish
1/16 devonshire
1/16 leicestershire
1/16 warwickshire
2/16 lancashire
4/16 east sussex
4/16 Ukrainian ? - not found these guys yet!
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32/32 English
22/32 Yorkshire
3/32 Lincolnshire
2/32 Derbyshire
2/32 Warwickshire
1/32 Nottinghamshire
1/32 Rutland
1/32 Staffordshire
2/64 Irish
Andrew :)
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1/4 Dorset
1/4 Bristol
1/4 London (of Cornish descent)
1/4 unknown ... strong possibility Italian !!
Bit like the dog, really, bitsa this and bitsa that !
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Dad was born Shropshire, 1924 , His mother was born Ireland, My Mum was born Dublin 1926,
what does this make me :) :) :)
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Dad was born Shropshire, 1924 , His mother was born Ireland, My Mum was born Dublin 1926,
what does this make me :) :) :)
Sh-Irish? :D
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1/2 English [Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol]
1/2 American
The American half can be further broken down to:
1/4 Irish [Down]
1/4 Irish [Wicklow]
1/4 Scot [Wigtownshire]
1/4 New England Yankee [ultimately, English]
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1/8 London (Surrey) by way of Hampshire
1/8 London (Surrey) by way of Northern France
1/8 London (Middlesex) by way of Norfolk
1/8 London (Middlesex) by way of Kent
1/8 London (Surrey) by way of Northamptonshire
1/8 Yorkshire
1/8 London (Surrey) by way of Co. Cork
1/8 London (Middlesex) by way of Cornwall, USA and Co Antrim
This is quite straightforward for me - not so for my children. I was born in Cyprus and am married to a Peruvian of Spanish, Portuguese and Scottish origins.
Philip
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On the basis of my granparents I'm:
3/4 English (2/4 Kent, 1/4 Staffordshire)
1/4 Welsh
Working back to the next generation, though, that equates to:
7/8 English (4/8 Kent, 2/8 Staffordshire, 1/8 London)
1/8 Welsh
And then further back another generation:
13/16 English (8/16 Kent, 4/16 Staffordshire, 1/16 Cambridgeshire)
3/16 Welsh (1/16 Glamorganshire, 2/16 Monmouthshire)
The Monmouthshire falls back to 2/32 in the next generation, and one side were from Dorset originally. All in all, it means I'm mostly English with about an eighth Welsh.
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australian
english
irish ;D
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hi :)
Well my mum is 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Romani and 1/4 English
my dad is 100% English... I have no idea what that makes me ....
Blimey ...What am I ? ::) :o
deb
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hi :)
Well my mum is 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Romani and 1/4 English
my dad is 100% English... I have no idea what that makes me ....
Blimey ...What am I ? ::) :o
deb
hmm...wouldn't that make you 1/4 (2/8) Irish, 1/8 Romani, 5/8 English. lol I haven't added fractions in years.
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hi :)
Well my mum is 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Romani and 1/4 English
my dad is 100% English... I have no idea what that makes me ....
Blimey ...What am I ? ::) :o
deb
hmm...wouldn't that make you 1/4 (2/8) Irish, 1/8 Romani, 5/8 English. lol I haven't added fractions in years.
Is that Romani or Romany? Anyway that all adds up to:-
5/8 English (what ever that is)
1/4 Irish
1/8 Romani/Romany
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Hi Anna, 36/32s ?,
Me , i am
Derbyshire
Yorkshire
Scottish
Bodger
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I am 3/4 Glaswegian and 1/4 Italian.
Further back I also have County Derry Irish on my mother's line, County Down Irish, Renfrewshire and Ross and Cromarty Scots on Dad's side. Dad's line got around a bit. ;D
Nina
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If just you take it back to grandparents then I'm 100% Welsh - bacl to great grandparents then 7/8 Welsh and 1/8 English (Lancashire). Even back to GG Grandparents its only 14/16 Welsh and 2/16 English so I'm probably as Welsh as most people can get these days.
As far as I've traced my mother's family - the 1700s - no one was born outside of Wales - so she's a real taff :-)
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Some French, some Irish, a lot of London and Essex. I am convinced there is a connection with the north, hopefully with Yorkshire, my favourite county, but haven't found it yet. I have a few names in my tree that tend to originate there - Redfearn, Lister and Maltby for example.
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1/4 Cheshire
1/4 Yorkshire
1/2 Irish
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... a lot less sure than I was before I started family history research. :D
turns out that my Irish grandfather was born in Lancashire and I can't yet work out where Irish grandmothers family was from. The name apparently is more likely to be Manx than Irish!
Mom born in Dublin and Dad in the Black Country but with two Irish grandparents so used to think 1/4 English 3/4 Irish but maybe not.
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Well, it all depends how far back you want to or can go! And in what detail.
I am Australian, Scottish, English, Irish (much more than I realised when I began this!), a pinch of Dutch and a fascinating soupcon of French via the West Indies. There's rumoured to be some Welsh but I am yet to prove that! Could be a volatile and eccentric mixture - yes, I'll admit to that!
The English is mainly London, Yorkshire and Somerset.
A third cousin and I with the same French ancestry are both dotty about all things French - she, even more than I! Strength of the genes, perhaps?
MarieC
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Although I am Canadian, (Niagara Region), for 5 generations, (7 if you count down to my grandkids), my ancestry on my father's side is mostly English (Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Somerset, Bristol and Glouchester), with some protestant Irish, (Tipperary), and a hint of Welsh, (Pembrokeshire),. On my mother's side, Catholic Irish (Cork), and Protestant Irish (Downshire, Armagh).
Mike
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I was born in London
Dad - Derry
Mum - Glasgow
Paternal GP's - Ireland/ Ireland
Maternal GP's - Ireland/ USA
After that all Irish as far back as I've been able to go - which isn't very far :P
mab
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Too few "Americans" have responded, and since I am in limbo on my lines for now I'll bite.
100% Scottish on my mom's side back to grt-grt grandparents and beyond, save a grt gma and her line who were English.
Researching ancestors who were in America pre-1800 (as all mine were) is quite difficult: record-keeping was not nearly as well-done as in the British Isles and Europe; plus, people moved like crazy.
Having said that, my paternal ancestors were a potpourri of English, French, German, and maybe Scottish (Dunn).
For arguing purposes I consider myself Scottish.
Nick
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Hi,
On my father's side: Australian, English, Irish
and on my mother's: Australian, Scottish, Irish.
and what a delightful mix I am ;D ;D
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Hi
Mum's side - English (Durham, Yorkshire, Northumberland), Irish.
Dad's side - German (Wurtemburg), French (Calais region), Scottish (Caithness, Aberdeenshire), English, (Northumberland)
Margaret
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Those fractions are too complicated for me 8)
Co. Antrim ... Irish and Scottish
Derbyshire ... English
Devonshire .. English
Lancashire ... English
Bergen ......... Norwegian
I'm sure there are several other nationalities and shires floating around.
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Hi all
Me I am 75% Cornish and 25% Welsh (if working out from my grandparents)
So plenty of pasties and a Welsh Rarebit ;D ;D
Su
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2 greats:
4 from Hampshire
4 from Ireland (one maternal set, one paternal set)
2 from Kent
5 from Lancashire
1 from Cheshire
3 great in the same ratio, except 4 un-found but assumed Lancashire, and the 8 Irish 3 greats are also assumed
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2 x G. Grandparents
2 from Belper, Derbyshire
1 from Suffolk (not sure where)
1 from Hackney, London
4 from Hulme, Manchester
5 from Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
3 from Stourbridge, Worcestershire
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3 x g grandparents:
9 - Kent
8 - Devon
4 - Hampshire
1 - Isle of Wight
4 - Ireland
2 - Pembrokeshire
1 - Berkshire
1- Middlesex
2x g grandparents of my kids:
6 - Kent
2 - Worcestershire
2 - Devon
1 - London
1 - Belfast, Northern Ireland
1 - Hampshire
1 - Dublin, Southern Ireland
1 - Russia
1 - Germany
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I'm 24.1% Australian and 75.9% confused.
;D
Leonie.
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100% Scottish on four grandparents but 50% Irish 50% Scottish on Great Grandparents.
My husband born Scotland but 50% English 50% Italian
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;D
Australian
South Auatralian
Wiltshire
Buckinghamshire
Definitely English
Alf
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Looks like 100% English then Duck. Not a drop of Wales, Ireland or Scotland in there !
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99% English just spread about a bit lol (any cracks about matching other bits will be severely dealt with!)
Grandparents
3 Staffordshire
1 Worcestershire
GGrandparents
5 Staffordshire
2 Worcestershire
1 Unknown (literally!)
GGGrandparents
1 Herefordshire
3 Staffordshire
5 Worcestershire
1 Shropshire
1 Lancashire
GGGGrandparents
2 Cheshire
2 Shropshire
1 Unknown (as yet)
4 Staffordshire
2 Herefordshire
1 Gloucestershire
1 Lancashire
1 London
1 Somerset
1 Welsh
Willow x
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Hi all
100% Shropshire!!!!!!!! 8) 8) 8)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Sharmar
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Just worked mine out:
53.125% Sussex
4.6875% London
3.125% Wiltshire
3.125% Kent
1.5625% Hampshire
1.5625% Irish
1.5625% Somerset
1.5625% Devon
1.5625% Norfolk
28.125% Unknown
Or thereabouts
The unknowns are almost certainly Sussex, so it works out as 98.4375% boringly English
Glen
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I'd guess you got an A* in your GCSE maths then !!
;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'd guess you got an A* in your GCSE maths then !!
;D
Nope, B in O'Level.
I should add that I am 70% bored and 30% holding a calculator!
Glen
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Great Grandparents +
Armstrong - Geordie > Mackam > Northumbrian
Rafferty - Geordie > Irish
Boyle - Irish
Roberts - Irish
Eccles - Geordie > Irish
Evans - Irish
Irwin - Geordie > Northumbrian
McCourt - Geordie > Irish
Mostly of Irish Decent with a hint of Geordie/Mackam/Northumbrian. ;D
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I am 50% Irish and the second 50% is very frustrated with the first 50% :( ;D
Zoe
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Me too Madfan - they didn't even have the courtesy to put a county on the census here - never mind a town - just Ireland !
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I'm about 1/2 Welsh, 3/8 Scots and 1/8 English but I was born in Wales.
Gadget :)
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I know at least names and rough places for all my 3g grandparents, so I'm:
11/32 Irish
1/32 Scottish
20/32 English
Yet to find any Welsh! I can also trace my family in the parish where I now live back to the 1750s - although we haven't been here continuously since then - I wasn't even aware of the connection when I moved here.
Richard.
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I'm known as Bitza as i have family from.
London
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Spain
Devon
Hartlepool
this is just the ones i know about and i was born in London
bitza
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You name it ..... I'm one of those !! ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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I am part Scottish
Cumbrian
born in Northumberland
Borders and NewZealand
Elizabeth
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1/4 Scottish (perhaps a wee bit of Irish in there)
1/4 Suffolk/Kent
The rest: London; Wiltshire; Devon; Somerset; Dorset; Bristol; Surrey; and a tiny bit Belgium
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No way am I going to work out exact percentages but in rough order:
Yorkshire - North Riding
Aberdeenshire
Morayshire
Nairnshire
Essex
Hampshire
Westmorland
Surrey
Staffordshire
Co.Durham
Jen
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I am 1/2 Irish
1/4 Oxfordshire
1/8 London
1/8 Norfolk
which explains a lot!
Carolyn
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I am
15/16 Lancashire
1/16 Worcestershire
Barrowboy
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Half french
half english (derbyshire, but originally staffordshire - I think!)
Daughter has just married a russian, Sasha.
So the final family tree promises to be quite interesting.
Great grandfather, in France, was a redhead - now where does that come from?
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Welsh. Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, Brecknockshire, Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire.
English. Herefordshire.
Irish. Dublin.
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No way am I going to work out exact percentages but in rough order:
Yorkshire - North Riding
Aberdeenshire
Morayshire
Nairnshire
Essex
Hampshire
Westmorland
Surrey
Staffordshire
Co.Durham
Jen
Hi Jen,
Ten places ... how a tenth each ???
Christopher
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No, sorry, that doesn't work because more of my ancestors came from the North Riding of Yorkshire than from, for example, Surrey or Staffordshire. At great grandparents level, I have two from Aberdeen, two from North Riding, one from Essex, one form Durham and one from Staffordshire.
Go back another generation and it goes something like this:
Aberdeen 4
Nairnshire 1
Morayshire 1
Essex - 2
Staffordshire 1
Surrey 1
NRY 4
Unknown 2
Other counties - Hampshire comes in at the next level back, Durham makes a reappearance in the 1780s and Westmorland makes its first entry at 6 x great grandmother level.
So tenths really wouldn't be very accurate.
Jen
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Paternal Grandfather from Preston, Lancashire. His ancestors were mostly from Lancashire, Cumbria (Kendal and Crosthwaite area) and North Yorkshire (Settle and Giggleswick area). Paternal family were originally Viking.
Paternal Grandmother from Preston, Lancashire. Her father was a Londoner of Hertfordshire, Lancashire and Irish (Mayo and Tipperary stock, her mother a Lancastrian with ancestors from Preston, Manchester, Liverpool, Oldham and Ireland (Meath).
Maternal Grandfather from Preston, Lancashire. His dads family (half of whom is unknown as his dad was illegitimate) are mainly from the Leyland area, Preston, Suffolk (Ashfield-Cum-Thorpe area) and Ireland (Dublin, Longford and possibly Monaghan).
Maternal Grandmother from Wigan, Lancashire. Her dads family were from Gloucestershire (Westbury area), Lancashire (Wigan area), Cheshire and Wales. Her mothers family (again, half of them are unknown as she was born illegitimate) are from Preston and the Lancashire coast around Bispham.
Stephen :)
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Mostly welsh with a bit of cheshire english thrown in for good measure......and a dash of Manx (if i can find his birth record!!!)