60% Irish, 20% French......?

[burnie]

I'm half Latvian,though my Dad was born in Moscow during the Russian revolution(his parents were evacuated there during WW1)My English side came from Leicester,who came from Derby,who apparently came from the north east where one of them designed steam engines and had an engine named after him(allegedly)will try and follow the english half one day,oh and I live in Scotland,but also lived in Amsterdam and Paris and Devon and London,so I don't know where the hell my roots are.

[lynda66]

I don't know where the hell my roots are.

on your head, and if they are like mine, they are the bits that really need a packet of hair dye

[burnie]

Don't think they do industrial strength to deal with all my grey hair!

[Snadger]

Great gandpappy was Danish.(Probably why I like bacon so much?)

Rest of the family originated in the Scottish borders until they came down and beat the crap out of the Northumberland mob and looted, raped and pillaged as they were going!

Wor lass is a cross of French and Irish!

So all in all we're a reet bunch of mongrels.........not as bad as Royalty though!

[BrideXIII]

I consider myself Cornish but one great, great grandparent supposed to be from Bristol, but ? welsh - with a surname like Brain it's probably a good chance they are from Wales isn't it.

Brain?, Brian? i can never spell those right, can't do Niel/Neil either, so had to spell connors middle name Niall cos that i could remember

Isn't Brain Irish too? mind you cornish, welsh irish and scots are all celtic stock, so the names are all similar.

[lynda66]

Brain?, Brian? i can never spell those right, can't do Niel/Neil either, so had to spell connors middle name Niall cos that i could remember

Isn't Brain Irish too? mind you cornish, welsh irish and scots are all celtic stock, so the names are all similar.

you mean they are all related really dontcha ...... wiv 6 extra toes??

*ducks and hides for the rest of the day*

[BrideXIII]

you mean they are all related really dontcha ...... wiv 6 extra toes??

*ducks and hides for the rest of the day*

PMSL not quite, but i did just take my sox off and count ;eek: .....just in case

[Lady Jana Muck]

Great gandpappy was Danish.(Probably why I like bacon so much?)

Rest of the family originated in the Scottish borders until they came down and beat the crap out of the Northumberland mob and looted, raped and pillaged as they were going!

Wor lass is a cross of French and Irish!

So all in all we're a reet bunch of mongrels.........not as bad as Royalty though!

So if your lot came down raping and pillaging over the old wall and hit the A69 Did they go any where near Hexham ? Cos if they did you, me and piskieinboots could be related

[crazy_red]

Snadger - I consider us peasants to have much purer lineage than Royalty - we were a bit more fussy about breeding outside our own family gene pools

[crazy_red]

PMSL not quite, but i did just take my sox off and count ;eek: .....just in case

Me too - phew!...only five on each....should I be worried about the webbed bits?

Red x

[lynda66]

Me too - phew!...only five on each....should I be worried about the webbed bits?

Red x

nah thats a good thing ..... means way back, some bird kissed a frog, who turned into a handsome bloke, (lucky cow) and you got some of the bits that didn't vanish

[crazy_red]

..... means way back, some bird kissed a frog...........

ROFL

Lynda, that's it! That's who the fairytale is about! My family.....

The bird was me great great great granny Virginie ..........she married the handsome french/frog fella.... the women then had several blonde generations when they wed into the Irish.....and they all lived happily ever after ...til I was born anyhoo


Red x

[Glutton4...]

I think I'm officially a Heinz...

Dad's Dad = London Fireman
Dad's Mum = Sarfend (Probably met when he was there on Holiday, but that's only a guess)
Mum's Dad = Glaswegian (Irish Immigrant family - Potato Famine?) may explain my liking for a drink (no offence)!
Mum's Mum = Can't remember, middle England/farming family, I think.

So, who knows...

[lynda66]

well i know theres some confusion over my dads mum, she may have come from guernsey ...... no idea about his dad ...... their kids were evacuated from london during the war, and their parents both died, while they were away, so none of them really remember anything.

that's got to be it red ..... the webbed feet are fine then

[Snadger]

So if your lot came down raping and pillaging over the old wall and hit the A69 Did they go any where near Hexham ? Cos if they did you, me and piskieinboots could be related

Nah..........they avoided Hexham & Corbridge cos it was too powsh!