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Offline jeune-romantique

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 13 August 07 11:34 BST (UK) »
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.?
Cole/Hayden - Chilbolton, Hampshire, England
Higgins - Pembrokeshire, Wales
Popham - Bideford, Devonshire, England
Burness - Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Troy - Ireland
Christie - Scotland
Campbell - Scotland
Ross - Scotland
Brand - Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Watson - Scotland
Rundmann - Taschendorf, Prussia, Germany
Schonfeldt - Prussia
Gurowski - Prussia
Martin - Cork, Ireland
Roberts - Yorkshire, England
Kemp - England

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 13 August 07 12:12 BST (UK) »

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
BAKER - Cornwall
BARRABLE - UK and South Africa
BROPHY - Kilkenny in Ireland,  South Africa
CORIN,  MARTIN, NICHOLAS, WILLIAMS  - Cornwall,  South Africa
EDWARDS - Wales,  South Africa
JAMES - Cornwall, London
KENT - UK, Ireland and South Africa
KLISKEY - Cornwall, South Africa, NZ, USA, Australia
KOWLESKEY or KOULESKEY - Russia (Kalingrad)
PERRY - Cornwall and Australia
UREN - Worldwide (One Name Study)

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 13 August 07 12:32 BST (UK) »
A bit of Irish, a bit of Yorkshire, some Essex, Berkshire, Leicestershire and London (so far)
Eaton (Woughton on the Green, Doncaster and N. London), Davis(Shinfield and London), Harrington (Ireland and London), Sutcliffe (Todmorden and London), Williams, Hollingsworth (Thaxted), Lane (Rotherhithe), Fuller (Chesterton, Cambs), Dilley (who knows where????)

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 13 August 07 12:43 BST (UK) »
Derbyshire,staffordshire canadian/irish or scots (don't know where his family originates from) irish..
stoke on trent. carson,wain,leese,shaw,key,scalley,mitchell,<br />james,<br /> nottingham,pollard,grice,<br />derbyshire,vallands,turton,howe.<br /> new zealand,turton<br /> canada,carson.<br />australia,mitchell,scalley,<br />

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 13 August 07 15:00 BST (UK) »
My ancestry:

Canadian
Canadian Native
Scottish
English
Irish
German
French
   and maybe some others that I haven't discovered yet.

Kathleen
                     
England and Belfast - GOFF, GOUGH, MATHERS, MOXHAM/MOXAM,  OSMOND, PHILLIPS, WINDER, WYKES

Scotland - JOHNSTON, DORWARD, KIDD, KYD, RAMSAY, RAE

Canada - DeWOLFE, HALLADAY, HASKINS, HICOCK, JOHNSTON, OLD/OLDS

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #14 on: Monday 13 August 07 16:20 BST (UK) »
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 :)
BARTLETT - Plymouth, Devon
BIRD - Wiltshire, Somerset
BISHOP - Somerset
DESBOROUGH - Surrey?
EMERY - Bedfordshire
HALL - Walworth
HARDISTY - Leeds, Yorkshire
HAYWARD - Southwark, Surrey
LEDAMUN - Spitalfields, Middlesex
MONTAGUE - Bethnal Green, Middlesex
MYNN - Goudhurst, Kent
REYNELL - Newington Surrey
REYNOLDS - Soho, Middlesex
WREN - Midlothian, Scotland, Camberwell

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 13 August 07 16:53 BST (UK) »
Mostly Irish. Dublin and Armagh
Some Scottish.Edinburgh and Glasgow
Rest English. Staffs., Warwicks, Lancs and recently discovered Geordie :o
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Clulo - Staffs.,Warwickshire, Lancs.1780 -1950
Fisher- Nafferton,Hull, Manchester.1770-1840-1950
Kane&McNeill,Forkhill, Armagh and Glasgow,Bray Dublin.1850s -1920
Boshell and Dowzard- Dublin, 1840s -1911
Kay/Bremner Edinburgh 1800 - 1841.Kay Staffs.& Lancs1842 -1901
Kay - Newcastle on Tyne 1780-1861
Swindell, Marple & Manchester 1900->
Makinson, M/c & Prestwich 1870 ->
Beacom/Jones - Enniskillen 1780 ->

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #16 on: Monday 13 August 07 17:23 BST (UK) »
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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Re: what are you?
« Reply #17 on: Monday 13 August 07 17:28 BST (UK) »
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!!
Hertfordshire - Stone, Wells, Quarry,Claxton
London - Sutton (Southwark/Clerkenwell), Phillips (Clerkenwell), Stone (Chelsea)
Suffolk - Turner & Rogers (Lavenham)
Norfolk - (K)Nobbs & Germany (Norwich)
Middlesex - Shackell
Anywhere - Quarry & variants
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