what are you?

[aspin]

I am part Scottish

Cumbrian

born in Northumberland


Borders and NewZealand

Elizabeth

[julieann1]

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

[genjen]

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

[casram]

I am  1/2 Irish
         1/4 Oxfordshire
         1/8 London
         1/8 Norfolk
  which explains a lot!

Carolyn

[barrowboy]

I am

15/16  Lancashire
1/16  Worcestershire

Barrowboy

[willow154]

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?

[ozlady]

Welsh. Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, Brecknockshire, Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire.

English. Herefordshire.

Irish. Dublin.

[Christopher]

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

[genjen]

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