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what are you?
« on: Monday 13 August 07 09:55 BST (UK) »
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 ?
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:09 BST (UK) »
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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Re: what are you?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:14 BST (UK) »
I am

1/2 Yorkshire
1/2 Londoner

Jane
Kershaw, Longbottom,Parvin
Areas  Huddersfield, Brighouse, Rastrick ,Thirsk, Sand Hutton
Masters in London/Surrey
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Re: what are you?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:30 BST (UK) »
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
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:38 BST (UK) »
1/4 Northamptonshire
1/2 Monmouthshire
1/4 Worcestershire
Mon: Evans; Griffiths; Hodges; Lewis
Northants: Brain; Bruce; Clark; Gardner; Haynes; Newman; Redley
Som: Hodges

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:42 BST (UK) »
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!

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 13 August 07 10:47 BST (UK) »
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.
Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 13 August 07 11:08 BST (UK) »
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
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby -  Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
Campbell, McMartin, McLellan, McKercher, Perthshire

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Re: what are you?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 13 August 07 11:13 BST (UK) »
3/4 Hampshire

1/4 Spanish

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foster
searley
Hansler
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