English Ancestry

[KentishChris]

Thanks for all the replies! 
Maybe it is more common that I first thought!
It's just I see all these stories of ancestors who came from all over the world.

My Mum's side is 90%+ London.
I was actually surprised when I finally found someone outside of London 

It's interesting to hear all these stories! They've made who we are today, and we should all be proud of where we come from, wherever it is in the world! 

If anyone else has any more stories, please feel free to add!

Chris

[barryd]

Referring to the Isles of Scllly it is over a little part of the sea, more sea than the Isle of Wight I admit, but it is part the constituency of Andrew George, Member of (Westminster) Parliament in his constituency of West Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. In the fairly recent past it has had different taxation than the mainland.

[kevinf2349]

I have found only 1 Scottish ancestor so far stretching back to 1770, not bad for a family full of McDonald's and Ferguson's...and the one Scottish  ancestor isn't even from one of these families! In fact the Ferguson's and McDonald's don't appear to have strayed more than a 10 mile radius for nearly 150 years!

....and they have been pauping for many years too!  I am following in the family tradition at the moment too! LOL

 

[bikermickau]

On my father's side - grandfather is all English, grandmother is Irish and Finn.

On my mother's side it's a mishmatch of English and Irish.

Some Ancestors I haven't located records for prior to Australia. (Likely to be English and Irish)

Mick

[nainmaddie]

I am pure Welsh !!  On many lines back to the 1600's.

It would be so much easier if I had some English names or places.

[KGarrad]

Referring to the Isles of Scllly it is over a little part of the sea, more sea than the Isle of Wight I admit, but it is part the constituency of Andrew George, Member of (Westminster) Parliament in his constituency of West Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. In the fairly recent past it has had different taxation than the mainland.

And a party to one of the world's longest wars - 335 years!

Apparently, the Isles of Scilly were signatories on the original Declaration of War against The Netherlands (or the United Provinces as it was known at that time).
Nobody included them in the Peace Treaty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years%27_War

[clearly]

Of the 67 direct line ancestors that I can trace they all are English except my father who was born half a mile over the border in Scotland. His brother and sister were both English.  The surprising thing is that of the 67, about 85 percent of them were born within ten miles of Scotland -- in Carlisle.

[msallen]

Its perfectly common.

I have to go back to the twelfth century to find my first known non English-born ancestor (www.genealogy.mallen.org.uk/407390760-AlanLaZouche.html).

Of course all the lines where I'm stuck in the 16th/17th/18th century may have far more recent ones, but as the majority are all families that have been in the same small villages in the Peak District from then to now (and usually with other people of the same surname living thereabouts much earlier), I don't think its too likely.

[Nick29]

Once you've gone back half a dozen centuries, the definition of 'English' becomes rather vague, considering that parts of France were under English rule, and vice versa