Always expect the unexpected!

[brigidmac]

DianaCanada are any of your English ancestors from "up north" ? I think Scottish ancestry tends to show up in people who are from northern England ..maybe a small amount in several ancestors would explain the 13 percent .

My mother has a similar amount but it turned out one of her great great grandmothers was from Scotland..not sure how she ended up in a small village in Northamptonshire.

[brigidmac]

Susieroe I'd just learnt that many true  Romany families have Indian or Pakistani origins .

 Helping a friend whose matches had caravan dwelling ancestors but they turned out not to be descended from the Romany line that some had on their trees . Ethnicity helped confirm that they were from a Welsh line with same surname !



 

[DianaCanada]

DianaCanada are any of your English ancestors from "up north" ? I think Scottish ancestry tends to show up in people who are from northern England ..maybe a small amount in several ancestors would explain the 13 percent .

My mother has a similar amount but it turned out one of her great great grandmothers was from Scotland..not sure how she ended up in a small village in Northamptonshire.

Not very far north - Lancashire, Yorkshire (mostly West but one line East), and Cheshire.  One line in Manchester possibly Irish 6 generations back, and yes one unknown male ancestor 5 generations back.  Maternal side is Sussex and some Kent well back into the 1700s.

[pinefamily]

My Swedish ancestry is a large percentage, so not just Viking ancestry. I have quite a few DNA matches with Swedish researchers, but so far too distant to find an exact match.

[coombs]

My gran was from Northern England but her mother was a Londoner, however one of her ancestors in Sussex was the daughter of a man who was once a Mayor of Kings Lynn Norfolk, and was from Warrington originally.

My gran's father was from up north but met great gran in London in 1918 when he was in the Coldstream Guards. He was part Scottish.

[susieroe]

Susieroe I'd just learnt that many true  Romany families have Indian or Pakistani origins .

 Helping a friend whose matches had caravan dwelling ancestors but they turned out not to be descended from the Romany line that some had on their trees . Ethnicity helped confirm that they were from a Welsh line with same surname !

brigidmac, I've only today received an email with your post, it seems I didn't keep up with the thread.
May I ask a long shot: is your friend from Leicester? My Mum remembered Grandma taking her to visit a relative in a caravan in Leicester circa 1920s. She told me definitely not gypsy but that there were beautiful things there like china and glass that I know Romanies collect. Did you ever hear of a caravan community in Leicester?

[coombs]

My dad's younger siblings were born in 1952 and 1960 respectively, and I expected both to be baptised soon after birth, but the elder one was baptised the same day as the 1960 born sister, both baptised 9th July 1961 according to nan's diary transcripts. Slightly unexpected but still a nice tale to tell on here.

Although lots of children were baptised as a job lot especially by the early 1900s onwards.

[Rena]

Although lots of children were baptised as a job lot especially by the early 1900s onwards.

One of my lines originated from the British owned Kingdom of Hannover on the European Mainland.

He and his maternal line were Ev. Lutheran religion but listed on a census was his father, who with his wife and his family of several girls were all listed as Catholic.    As soon as the girls were born they were immediately baptised at the local Ev. Lutheran church.,.   Eventually the Catholic father trvelled several miles with his family to the nearest Catholic church where the girls were taken into the faith.   The archivist informed me that it was quite normal if a man found work in a Lutheran district he could have them baptised in thelocal church and then in later years have them confirmed into the catholic faith.

[brigidmac]

Susie no the caravan dwellers were Newport wales.
I am Leicester based but don't have Leicester ancestors and don't know of  caravan communities here.