So where are you from?

[jaybelnz]

 

Funny, I have several records for him and his sisters
Some say Boston Mass
Some say Dedham Boston Mass
Another says Dedham Boston Suffolk Mass
All born in East Fourth Street

Interesting, and they're all registered in the City of Boston Registers

And my grandfather spoke with a broad Scottish accent 😄 He married my Gm in Scotland

[VFR800]

Living in Tamworth (UK). Family from Aldridge, Staffordshire and another branch from the East End of London (they seem to have moved there from Exeter in the late 19thC)

[coombs]

My great, great gran grew up in Bow, London from 1865 to 1876 and her future hubbys mother, my 3xgreat gran was born in Shoreditch, so I do feel a Cockney if only by blood.

[pinefamily]

I still call Australia home.

Its interesting when putting information into your family tree and you put down a place eg Whitechapel London England - yet when people ask me where I was born I say Adelaide- yet its technically Woodville as that is where the hospital is.

I have a polyglot of nationalities. Cornish, Scottish , English Prussian but no Welsh yet.

That's very true, David. I'm the same; when asked where I was born, I always say Adelaide, yet technically North Adelaide. I wonder why we go into more detail for our ancestors?

[Lisajb]

Born in and lived all my life in a small town close to Bristol. Maternal ancestors mainly from a small village a few miles away, with the odd import from elsewhere to refresh the gene pool. Paternal ancestors started off even closer, then moved to Bristol outskirts and spread a bit further afield.

[a-l]

I was raised in the east midlands but never thought of it as home. In my teens I moved to London and one day visited a different area where I burst into tears and my immediate thought was I've come home. So I moved there and have no idea to this day why I knew it was home. As far as I know there are no ancestral connections. I no longer live there but it will always be home to me.

[IgorStrav]

I was raised in the east midlands but never thought of it as home. In my teens I moved to London and one day visited a different area where I burst into tears and my immediate thought was I've come home. So I moved there and have no idea to this day why I knew it was home. As far as I know there are no ancestral connections. I no longer live there but it will always be home to me.

Which bit of London was it a-l?

I was born in Leytonstone, and feel comfortable all round North East London and also in Central London.  West London isn't so good, and I'm afraid - as a North of the Thames person - that I am completely lost South of the River, despite a lot of my rellies coming from Kent and Greenwich.

[a-l]

Igor it was High St. Kensington during the '70s.

[IgorStrav]

Igor it was High St. Kensington during the '70s.

Oh that forms part of my 'Central London areas I feel very at home in' .....lovely houses and shops and parks all round