English Ancestry

[behindthefrogs]

I have gone back at least five generations on all possible lines and every one of my ancestors is English.  In my wife's case the story is similar except we have a possible immigrant from Belgium in the middle of the 17th century.

[ReadyDale]

All of mine are English (some lines back to 1600's). Same with OH, although one branch does come from the Scilly Isles, does that count as overseas?

[angelfish58]

Mostly English, with a bit of Welsh, OH's ancestors are mainly from Yorkshire but with a bit of Norfolk to spice it up. He thinks I'm foreign as I was born in Lancashire 

[suey]

English on my side, supposedly all Sussex born and bred. My Knapp family begin spelling their surname with a K c1750, by 1780 they are plain Napp until about the mid 1800's when the K re-appears    As I'm stuck on Samuel born c1750 who knows 

My husbands side, has a Portuguese sailor born c1811, not surprising as his future mother in law ran a Thameside tavern,  I think he hopped off his ship, took one look at the landlady's daughter and never went home   

[sharmar]

All English with the odd Welsh thrown in back to the 1600's.  All mine stayed pretty much in the same county for generations.

[EdCan]

Dad's line pure Yorkshire until they came to Canada. Mom's line from London with some contenental mixing. The other foreign born due to fathers in miliatry but still pure English.

[Carly287]

I'm English,Scottish and Welsh! And my stepdad has Irish in him

[genjan1953]

All of my ancestors on both sides are English too, going back into the mid 18th Century, except for my great grandfather who was born in Germany in 1860.  All I know is that he married my great grandmother in 1893 in Liverpool and retained his German nationality until his death in Liverpool in 1922.  I've not had much luck tracing his ancestry so his 'line' remains a mystery - at least for the time being.  Apart from him, my ancestors were pretty unadventurous too.

[wrjones]

Most of mine are Welsh but I do have ancestors from Staffordshire as well.I've made more progress with those from Staffordshire too.Two lines well into the 1500's

William Russell Jones.