What Country is your research ?

[Calgarian]

England/Northern Ireland

Have traced my mothers family back to the early 1700's, starts in Leigh, then Hindley, then Rainford, then Atherton, Lancashire.  I had a lot of fun investigating and a lot of help from a lady in Hindley.

Then came the hard part - my fathers family.  The HARVEY's.  According to the 1871 English Census my g. grandparents Patrick and Rose Harvey (nee McNally) came from Co. Armagh.  After reading the other messages I see I am not the only one having difficulties

RootsChat has been a big help in my research and a great site.  Congratulations on your six months.

[bwgan ceredig]

we are a really boring lot in my family
From 1850ish on - all Monmouthshire and mostly Pontypool at that!
Before then virtually all from Glos, one or two Somerset
But my husband has livened things up a bit - Tipperary

[Willow 4873]

Yay!

After a search on Familysearch I found that Harry Stephen Bowkett b 1889 emmigrated to California USA. The only one I've found so far that left England. Unfortunately he died in 1979 but there must still be some rellys out there

Willow x

[Calgarian]

Reply #87

Hi Drakes

My mother was a Prescott.  I have done the family tree starting in Westleigh, Hindley, Rainford then Atherton all in Lancashire.

Could there be a connection with your Prescott's?

[wheeldon]

I've done well with my English ancestors and still find it quite amazing that one name can originate from one area of the country.  Not doing so good on my Irish side though, I find it bizarre that the government destroyed a lot of the census material and very inconsiderate!  Anyway, it gives me an excuse to have a jolly over there.

Regards

Fiona

[Jane Eden]

Hi

Mine are

England: Mainly Notts, Lincs & Derbys but also Warks

Scotland: West Lothian

Wales: Monmouthshire

Ireland: Dublin, Antrim

USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia but these are not in my main lines so I haven't started them yet.

Jane

[Manchester Rambler]

My g-grandparents all converged on Manchester from rural Cheshire and Shropshire (via Wolverhampton), Bath/Bristol, Belfast, Carrickfergus and Co Mayo.

Also helping my Swiss husband with his side of the family - his roots are Swiss and French, but branches of his tree go all over the world, particularly US, Oz and Canada.

Rambler

[chesters]

All of my ancestors came from either England or Wales.  Mainly Cheshire and Flintshire.

[ggrocott]

As I said to my son - he appears to be almost 100% English - I have found one Welsh ancestor and one Scottish ancestor so far and am stuck on both - Jessie/Janet? in Dumbarton and Frances Davey in Chepstow.

The rest are scattered all the way from Northumberland down to Dorset via Staffordshire, Shropshire, Surrey, Middlesex and Sussex with a few in Hertfordshire, Kent and Berkshire, a smattering in Gloucestershire and one in Oxfordshire.

I have along the way discovered distant cousins in New Zealand and the USA but my lot seem to have been quite happy to simply travel the length
and breadth of England.