Shropshire chatters

[Lloydy]

My parents, grand parents, great grandparents, and most of my cousins are all Welsh.......me?  I was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire so class myself as 100% English

[Lloydy]

...and I forgot to mention that I have lived in Shrewsbury for 41 years, so I'm definitely English, and not a bit of Welsh in me

[Gadget]

and I left the borders 45 years ago but went back regularly and I'm about  60% Welsh - I was born 1/2 mile into Wales* 

*PS - on the Shropshire side of Offa's Dyke 

[Lloydy]

I was born about 15 miles from the Welsh border......suppose I could say that I'm about 2% Welsh   Although, apart from two Shropshire lines, my family tree consists of ALL Montgomeryshire lines

I love Shropshire


OOops!! Meant to say 1 Shropshire line and 1 Cheshire line

[Gadget]

Nothing wrong with Montgomeryshire lines, Jan 

My great great Grandmother (Margaret Ellis)  came from Llangynog and then there are the Joneses and the Sandlands and ........................... 

[Lloydy]

Don't mention the Joneses I was born one of 'em!

[Gadget]

Thought I didn't have any. Then I found that two of my great grandmothers were Jones and then it went on and on and on and.............................. some of them became ap eventually 

[Gadget]

....and while I'm reminiscing ..

Oswestry was always pronounced 'ozustree' and Gobowen 'gubowen' .................

and the Bailey Head in Oswestry  on a Wednesday with all the farmers in their green or tan rough tweed suits and leather spats or half leggings or whatever they were called and spitting out chewing tobacco 

and the Odeon ?  (you queued by the side of Astons furniture shop) - saw Elvis in Blue Hawaii and Cliff in Summer Holiday there .

think I'd best go now before i spill some beans 

[wrjones]

I have two direct lines from Shropshire arising from the Marriage of a Charles Lea and an Elizabeth Griffith in Whitchurch in 1690.

Regards
William Russell  Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.