I was never any good at percentages or fractions!

[plimmerian]

going back to the line of my great great great grandparents I discover (forgive me if the wording is wrong) that I am:

1/32 Irish
1/32 Salopian
1/32 Durhamite
1/32 Kentish
1/32 French born British Subject (tricky one that lol)

2/32 Scottish
2/32 Yorkist
2/32 Cestrian

4/32 Welsh

17/32 Lancastrian

I'm sure some of you math boffins will be able to tell me in a better way! ;-))

[jess5athome]

Hi,

2/32 = 1/16

4/32 = 1/8

17/32 = just over a half 

Seriously tho' good on you for working that lot out, 

Regards,
Frank.

[fizzix]

Northern 

[John915]

Good evening,

You are to all intents and purposes, ¹/₂ Lancastrian. The other half is ¹/₈ Welsh. Then ¹/₁₆ each Scottish, Yorkist and Cestrian and then ⁵/₃₂ of the mix at the start.

But out of all that you are ³/₄ English, not including the French born bit. Iv'e included that with the Irish, Scottish and Welsh in the other ¹/₄ just to make the maths a little easier.

John915

Added, That is if the Cestrians are English, iv'e no idea who they are

Double added, Just looked them up, yes English

[Guy Etchells]

Having an English father and a Scottish mother does not make a person half English & Half Scottish genetics do do work like that.
Therefore such fractions are meaningless.
Cheers
Guy

[Aulus]

I'm hampered by one apparently illegitimate great great grandmother, but taking her father as unknown, and with some err ... "rounding" of counties (if you see what I mean) I get

12/32 Lancashire
4/32   Black Country
3/32  Hertfordshire
3/32  London
2/32  Suffolk
2/32  Huntingdonshire
1/32  Buckinghamshire
1/32  Unknown
1/32  Monmouthshire
1/32  Geordie
1/32  Essex
1/32  Sussex

The top two are my father.
The rest are my mother, who was a Londoner, thus demonstrating what a melting pot London has always been.

[philipsearching]

With ancestors traced back to Antrim, Bucks, Cork, Cornwall, Devon, Durham, East London, Flint, France, Kent, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northants, South London, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Yorkshire and "wherethehellweretheyfrom" I am proud to be 100% mongrel! 

[BumbleB]

I was born in Cheshire  - Hoole - so I can genuinely claim to be a hooligan 

Of the 32  ancestors - 5 unknown, 3 born in Cheshire and the rest in the West Riding.

[fizzix]

An interesting exercise as I have always said that I'm approx 50/50 Devon & Lancashire with a touch of Italy & Scotland. However the figures, for this particular generation anyway tell a different story.
Devonians = 3
Lancastrians = 5
Northumbrians = 5
Yorkists =3
Hampshire Hogs = 5
Scots = 4
Londoners = 2
Essexers? = 2
Italians = 2
and a lonely Wiltshire lass = 1

so I'm more of a mongrel than I thought