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Offline XPhile2868

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #81 on: Wednesday 19 March 08 15:34 GMT (UK) »
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 :)

Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire/Cumbria), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Cumbria), Bracewell (Lancashire), Moxham (Lancashire0

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #82 on: Wednesday 19 March 08 15:38 GMT (UK) »
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!!!)
RICE PRICE PARRY originally OWEN - Isle of Man, Holywell, Bradford & dissapeared!

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Poulston, Denbighshire
Wright, Mold & Hawarden
Roberts, Flintshire
Darlington, Cheshire, Flintshire
Parry, Flintshire
Ellis, Buckley & Chester

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