so where are your roots?

nicklouse
nicklouse Posts: 50,673
edited May 2011 in The Crudcatcher
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  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    Pretty good, My surname is Derry, my family hail from Walsall, I work with two guys called Derry both from Pelsall (they are brothers but I'm not related) and Walsall seems to have the highest density of Derry's in the land

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  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    roots are probably staffordshire as that's where I grew up but my heart belongs to Berkshire
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    the name on my birth certificate is henderson and my family are from newcastle (although they live in stoke)
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Roots are Celtic? With most being in Wales, predominately North Wales (Aaaaarggh Yeehaa territory)
    I'm from Sunderland originally and have no family anywhere near Wales, ever.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    the name on my birth certificate is henderson and my family are from newcastle (although they live in stoke)

    Henderson? That means you are a Geordie muppet.
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  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    I thought South Africa or Australia for some reason cooldad
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    t0pc4t wrote:
    I thought South Africa or Australia for some reason cooldad
    Everybody thinks I'm one of these foreigner types. Call me Saffa bastard at work.

    I was born in UK, brought up in SA and lived in NZ. Have passports for all three.

    But I am a Makem, no matter how hard I try and hide it.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    Hunt.

    UK name, Has a coat of arms, nominally south Britain :p Folks are from Brum though and me i'm S.Wales lad :p
  • ThePriory1978
    ThePriory1978 Posts: 563
    Surname Prior. Originally meaning a head or superior monk. Back in medievil times Kings and Queens used to look to the Prior for guidance before making important decisions. So basically we used to run the feckin country.

    We havent moved very far, the highest concentration of my forebears is in the south of the UK, Reading and Oxford mainly.

    My Dad is from Eton, his old folks used to work at in Windosr Castle and my Mum from the Eastend of London and her Dad used to have evening drinks with the Krays. God knows how they met.

    I also have no relatives since the beginning of time anywere near Wales.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I descended from Rhyl.
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I descended from Rhyl.

    my mum lives there
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  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    Where are my roots? I'm still not sure but so long as they're all the same colour all is good.

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  • lovewales
    lovewales Posts: 411
    Well it wouldn't find my married name on the 1998 register meaning there are less than 100 on the electral register. I knew it was unusual but less than 100 :!:

    My maiden name is a bit more common with over 25000 Lane's all well and truly English.
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  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    Lloyd for me, medium/low density where I live but it's a Welsh name and I can't for the lfie of me think of a relative that's Welsh. I don't have a tendency to fondle sheep, honest! :P
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    getonyourbike wrote:
    have a tendency to fondle sheep

    and i have a tendency to let you
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  • Muttly1981
    Muttly1981 Posts: 815
    My last name is Warburton and it looks like we haven't moved too far in the last century infact only about 50 miles :oops: My grandad (dads side) was origanally from Bury, Grandma (dads side) was Phillips from Cork, Grandad (mums side) was Williams from Wrexham and my grandma was Owens from Llandudno-ish way. In no way does this make me half Welsh
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  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    getonyourbike wrote:
    have a tendency to fondle sheep

    and i have a tendency to let you
    no thanks
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Both sides of the family are of Welsh descent, but my parents were both born and brought up in Birmingham, where I've always lived.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    so how many of you have actually put your name in the link above and see how far (or not) you people have moved.
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  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    Blackburn, where one of my ancestors was a Witch. Hasn't spread very much.
    My names dying out, down from 84 per million in 1881 to 31 by 1998. I do know of one person with the same surname who changed theirs by deed poll cos they were sick of the p1ss taking.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    nicklouse wrote:
    so how many of you have actually put your name in the link above and see how far (or not) you people have moved.
    Thought that was the point, and how I know my name seems to be mainly in North Wales.
    Going to have to learn to speak funny now.
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  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    nicklouse wrote:
    so how many of you have actually put your name in the link above and see how far (or not) you people have moved.

    Not really moved much since 1881. We tend to stick with what we know best I guess

    Love n hugs

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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    @Nicklouse When do we get yours?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    DIESELDOG wrote:
    Where are my roots? I'm still not sure but so long as they're all the same colour all is good.
    Is that really an admission of hardcore racism here?

    Most of the people in England should have descendants from Scotland and Wales - the Celts, basically.
    See, the celts were too busy taking part in their favourite passtime of fighting, then the saxons arrived with all their amorous charms, and started bedding the native women, whilst the celts continued cutting each other up with swords, throwing rocks at each other, or shooting each other with arrows. So much so that they didn't notice the Saxons having their way.

    I may be paraphrasing a little, but that's almost exactly(ish) what we were taught in history class. Probably, I wasn't paying much attention, i was too busy fighting.
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    Muttly1981 wrote:
    My grandad (dads side) was origanally from Bury,
    Wooo :D

    Needless to say, my surname would be really difficult to find. Nobody can locate us as it's just never heard of anymore.

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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Bloody Wales by the look of it.
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    1881 wales as expected.... tis where my dad and all his family are from.

    My mums maiden name for 1881 is Blackpool, where I was born!
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  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    I originate from Gliese 581.
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    nicklouse wrote:
    so how many of you have actually put your name in the link above and see how far (or not) you people have moved.

    well my name was originally from where my grandparents raised my old man, they were coal miners. they moved to stoke before i was born to work in the mines in staffordshire.
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    nicklouse wrote:
    so how many of you have actually put your name in the link above and see how far (or not) you people have moved.
    ME

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