How english, welsh and Irish am I?

[coombs]

I like the bit of Scots blood I have in me. Several of my friends have some Scottish in them and I feel at home then. I checked the 1901 census and over 300,000 Scots were in England at that time. And about half a million Irish.

Some people say that lots of Scots originated in Ireland but I wouldn't always bank on that. I think a lots of Scots, like Irish, originated in Scandinavia.

[toni*]

further to my post previous clearly i am English being born in England but i have origins elsewhere 

[Cell]

do you stop at your great-grand parents and work down from there or go back futher or only count from your grandparents etc.... where exactly is the stopping point. and if someone knows then could they then tell me what I am if I have two gtx3 grandparents from Ireland.

Kind regards
Charles

Hi, it stops with yourself

I"m  100% Welsh  , born bred and raised in Wales

My mother is Irish and my father is Welsh. - I never say I'm half Welsh Irish ,  and never will

I hold three passports.
(two are by birth right  and one is applied for )


I feel sad for people who do not know who they are. To me it's a bit like looking in a mirror and don't recognise the image staring back out - so very sad - looking for something that doesn't exist

 I feel true  love for my  country, I'd fight for my country -  It's like a mum or dad - it's just  there - it's part of you whether you like it or not ,you have no choice to love- it is  your being. and you'd fight to death for it

Kind regards

[Nick29]

I feel sad for people who do not know who they are...............

Bearing in mind that few of us can trace their family trees beyond the 15th century, and mankind has been on this planet for at least 150,000 years, I wouldn't be so bold as to profess that I knew who I am.  I am the sum of my parts, but I have only an inkling as to who these 'parts' were.   10 generations doesn't make a dynasty.

[Cell]

if you need to trace family history to find out who you are" that's sad.

You are your own person.

I know who I am

Kind regards

[Nick29]

It's up to the individual to decide what is sad, and what is not.   

I understand who I am, but I could not do that without knowing my parents (and probably their parents too).  When I look at myself, I see a little of them in me.

[Berlin-Bob]

I know who I am, in many respects, but if I take

   "to know who I am"

to mean 

   "to find out who and where I came from, and how, and to fit that into the sum of the parts of what I am today"

then family history helps me to understand some aspects of myself ("the sum of my parts") better.


Bob

ps. officially I'm english (by birth, passport, etc), otherwise I'm european (ancestors, places of abode, etc)

[Diane Heddon]

One 4 x g.grandfather was Scottish, the rest appear to be English but from many parts of the UK.  I had thought mainly from Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire.  Then I found out one of my g.grandfather's was apparently from Bethnal Green (no proof yet).  However, on the Norfolk side and Suffolk side, I've now found that going further back their ancestors came from Buckinghamshire, London around St Paul's area, and owned land in Essex, Kent and Middlesex.  Before starting on my family tree, I considered myself to be a Lancashire lass, who lived in Cheshire.  Now I think I'm a total mongrel

Lizzie

ps.  There's also a rumour that one of my 13 x g.grandfather's was a master cook for royalty.  Not found any proof of that though and don't know how I would.

Hi Lizie, yep mine now seem to be from everywhere too haha! but I am going to have my dna done later.. cannot wait ! ho the fun of it all.. about the cook  sometimes these peeps turn up in the peerage pages because they may have had children born into old historic royalty.. another place to see is google in your name and old dates.. i have found heaps of info of old history in my name lineages there. regards Di.

[coombs]

My great, great, great nan was born in Foulness, Essex in 1866. Her parents had wed in London, her mum was from Oxfordshire with a tad of Bucks ancestors and her fathers family were from Essex and Suffolk.