So where are you from?

[coombs]

My 2xgreat gran was born in Sussex, her parents moved to Stoke Newington when she was a few months old. Inbetween April and Sep 1865 (her sisters birth cert in Stoke Newington and baptism in Bow) she moved to Bow with her family. Lived in Bow until 1876, spent 2 years in Lambeth and Walworth, then lived in Holborn from late 1878 to her marriage in Pancras in 1886 and settled in Pancras and Islington. Growing up in various parts of London makes up for not being born there, but birthplace is not the only qualification, growing up somewhere is just as relevant. She was a Londoner.

[Deirdre784]

Born in Essex but lived in Cardiff for nearly 50 years, parents both from Cardiff. But mum's dad was from Pembrokeshire, her mum from Staffordshire, dad's mum from Ireland and his dad from Gloucestershire via Suffolk and Essex.....

My husband and his parents were born in Pontypridd but his mother's ancestors were from north Wales, Cheshire, Isle of Man, Gloucestershire and Pembrokeshire, and his dad's from north Wales, Cheshire, Somerset, Hampshire and Surrey...

 

[a-l]

I loved it Igor and often yearn to return.

[Ronbucks]

The Scottish Lowlands just about covers the majority of my recent ancestors. Or 99% European when you take into account my DNA. But I'm from Auld Reekie!

[Janelle]

My siblings and I are country Queensland born and our brother owns the house there that our grandparents built c 1920 and were we lived as young children. But because the family broke up when we were small that place isn't home to me.

Went to England when I was in my 20's, as you do, and I married a Londoner. :*

And he (OH) loves Australia/dislikes London so much now that when we are almost at Heathrow he is panicking and teary for Brisbane. 

I do call Australia home but my heart is in the Devon Somerset border parishes, M5 divides my black hill downs from my Exmoor. This is 1/4 of my roots and my province to research at will, while my sister has our 3/4 all-Ireland roots and has almost no affinity with Devon !! And me likewise with Fermanagh and Tyrone, haha.

Familiarity v fear of the unknown.

Salute,
Janelle

[rachelralph]

i have yet to find my home.
mothers family- father from iford dorset but i never knew any of them execpt my grandad when he came back into my mums life when she was in her 20's but sadly he died young. mothers family from dorset area and i do feel a little connection to the bournemouth area but my mum did all that family research so i dont really feel any connection there. going back further on this line mums family were from ireland on her maternal side and i do feel like this is where i should be. ive never been to ireland but when im researching this family i feel the most connected. shame that they were thieves and rouges! on mums paternal side further back the family is researched extensively and i could read everything i wanted about them but i dont feel like im from surrey at all.

dads side- his mum is scottish but lived in mansfield nottinghamshire for over 40 years and its where my dad and i were born, but researching my grans robertson family from scotland is proving hard. my dads dad was just a name on a certificate and when dad was 2 years old his mum remarried and the new husband adopted him. i tried to do this line of the tree and it was very interesting but i still didnt feel it was home. tried to do my dads biological tree but it didnt feel right.

and im now back in mansfield notts, but my dad was a soldier and ive lived a lot of my life abroad in europe so i still dont feel i come from anywhere. locally i have a strange accent and im often asked 'where you from' i always say i dont know. often i get asked if im from london, like anywhere further south than nottingham is london?! and the age old is it mam as in ham or marm as in arm gets argued over daily!

[pharmaT]

Inspired by this thread, yesterday I sketched out my tree with the locations only to help me picture my ancestor's movements.  My Grt grt grandparents came from 14 different towns and villages, 290 miles apart at the furthest points.  Only 6 of them had a child in the same town or village that they were born in.

[LouisaS]

My Maternal family are all Gloucestershire with the exception  of one of Gt Gradparents who came from South Yorkshire .              Paternal from Berkshire,  some moving to Feltham, my Father moved to Gloucestershire the rest is history. His  Mother from Ealing lived in Glamorgan.
I also live in Gloucestershire, always lived in same town.

[Beeonthebay]

Liverpool born and bred but roots in Cheshire, Cumberland, Isle of Man, Ireland and no doubt the further I go back the further my roots will spread. 

My grandfather was the first person in his family, as far as I know, to leave North Wales and set forth to Liverpool in about 1920 or so where he later married my grandmother.  I have always felt a strong connection with Wales and although I always knew my grandfather was Welsh, I never knew him as he died in WW2, so when I started this "game" I was very surprised just to see how Welsh I can lay claim to be.

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