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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: plimmerian on Friday 15 August 14 17:56 BST (UK)
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going back to the line of my great great great grandparents I discover (forgive me if the wording is wrong) that I am:
1/32 Irish
1/32 Salopian
1/32 Durhamite
1/32 Kentish
1/32 French born British Subject (tricky one that lol)
2/32 Scottish
2/32 Yorkist
2/32 Cestrian
4/32 Welsh
17/32 Lancastrian
I'm sure some of you math boffins will be able to tell me in a better way! ;-))
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Hi,
2/32 = 1/16
4/32 = 1/8
17/32 = just over a half ;D ;D ;D
Seriously tho' good on you for working that lot out, :)
Regards,
Frank.
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Northern ;D
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Good evening,
You are to all intents and purposes, 1/2 Lancastrian. The other half is 1/8 Welsh. Then 1/16 each Scottish, Yorkist and Cestrian and then 5/32 of the mix at the start.
But out of all that you are 3/4 English, not including the French born bit. Iv'e included that with the Irish, Scottish and Welsh in the other 1/4 just to make the maths a little easier.
John915
Added, That is if the Cestrians are English, iv'e no idea who they are ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Double added, Just looked them up, yes English 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Having an English father and a Scottish mother does not make a person half English & Half Scottish genetics do do work like that.
Therefore such fractions are meaningless.
Cheers
Guy
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I'm hampered by one apparently illegitimate great great grandmother, but taking her father as unknown, and with some err ... "rounding" of counties (if you see what I mean) I get
12/32 Lancashire
4/32 Black Country
3/32 Hertfordshire
3/32 London
2/32 Suffolk
2/32 Huntingdonshire
1/32 Buckinghamshire
1/32 Unknown
1/32 Monmouthshire
1/32 Geordie
1/32 Essex
1/32 Sussex
The top two are my father.
The rest are my mother, who was a Londoner, thus demonstrating what a melting pot London has always been.
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With ancestors traced back to Antrim, Bucks, Cork, Cornwall, Devon, Durham, East London, Flint, France, Kent, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northants, South London, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Yorkshire and "wherethehellweretheyfrom" I am proud to be 100% mongrel! :)
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I was born in Cheshire - Hoole - so I can genuinely claim to be a hooligan ;D
Of the 32 ancestors - 5 unknown, 3 born in Cheshire and the rest in the West Riding.
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An interesting exercise as I have always said that I'm approx 50/50 Devon & Lancashire with a touch of Italy & Scotland. However the figures, for this particular generation anyway tell a different story.
Devonians = 3
Lancastrians = 5
Northumbrians = 5
Yorkists =3
Hampshire Hogs = 5
Scots = 4
Londoners = 2
Essexers? = 2
Italians = 2
and a lonely Wiltshire lass = 1
so I'm more of a mongrel than I thought :) :) :) :)
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Interesting stuff! For the same generation (i.e. my 3 x greats), I'm:
1/4 Geordie
3/16 Tyke
3/16 East Midlander (Derbys/Leics)
5/32 various undifferentiated counties in the south of England ;)
1/8 Mackem
1/32 Scouse
1/16 completely unknown!
All brickwall-busting assistance on identifying the remaining 1/16 will be graciously accepted...
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thanks for sharing ;-)
a nation of mongrels then lol
8)
happy hunting for your unknown fractions
;D
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My paternal line is 3 generations in the West Country, so I was not surprised to calculate:
Kent 7/32
Wiltshire 6/32
Somerset 5/32
Devon 3/32
Essex 2/32
Suffolk 2/16
London 1/32
and unknown 6/32
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Hi,
I don't normally post on this board, but I couldn't resist the challenge.
1/32 = 3.125%
2/32 = 6.25%
4/32 = 12.5%
17/32 = 53.125%
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glad you enjoyed the challenge ;-))
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Fantastic: but I don't get the "family history" connection!
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That is if the Cestrians are English, iv'e no idea who they are
Cestrians - From Cheshire. Don't ask me why it's not Chestrians though.
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Paternal Grandfather: 100% Irish
Paternal Grandmother: 75% English, 25% German
Maternal Grandfather: Mostly English, 6.25% Scottish, probably some Welsh, some distant Irish
Maternal Grandmother: 100% Manx
Blue
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Me I'm a watered down Yorkshireman!
On my fathers side all yorkshire folk, down to the worker at the abbey at Kirkstall in the days of yore.
On my mother's side all staffordshire folk.
Brian
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Thought this was going to be a thread about improving ones mathematics expertise. ;)
Very interesting statistics though. ???
I tried to steer clear of anything to do with this subject at school - to my cost in later life. Help!
Judy
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I DON'T seem to be much of a mix:
12/32 Co.Durham
16/32 Scotland
4/32 Norfolk
but definitely Northern!! until me - first born further south (midlands)
Diddy
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Good evening,
There seems to be several who didn't enjoy fractions Judy, or have forgotten the rules of fractions. Fractions should always be expressed as the largest parts possible. So you cannot have an equal no of 32nds as in Diddys answer.
12/32 should read 3/8 or 37.5%
16/32 should read 1/2 or 50%
4/32 should read 1/8 or 12.5 %
32nds can only be expressed as such if there are an odd no of them and the same for any no of parts of the whole. Don't mean to pick on you Diddy, just that your answer is in view as I type my answer, there are others on here as well. And I wasn't even a swot, as you can see by my starting a sentence with AND!
John915
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that's ok = I am aware I could have found the equivalent fractions - I DID get my GCE Math & my daughter is a secondary Maths teacher with maths degree!
equally, if I was getting my own back, I could correct your English which was my strength at school!
Diddy ;D
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I knew the math boffins couldn't resist ;D 8)