Got mine back to 1650 in Gloucester. Supposed to have come to England in early 1600's when the Catholics hounded the Huguenot Protestants out of France. Evidence that we were here well before that. Reckon we arrived with Willi the Conq's army at Pevensey Bay in Sussex. Have walked across the Bay, (different now) and thought that I may be walking where my ancestor who was probably a French peasant walked.......not come very far!!!!!!!!!! The name is very common in France though, like Thomas and Jones in Wales.
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Interesting melding of 3 concepts.
How English am I? 100%.
What is my genetic history? Very strongly Viking on both sides - my father's side via the Normans. Who as we all know were an earlier Viking incursion into N France.
And my cultural history? We had pit-lads, mill-girls, an opera singer, baker/confectioners, emigrants to Canada, US and Australia, a WW1 hero, a WW1/WW2 survivor, at least 3 masons, a steam-train driver, a man who left £4000 to 2 publicans and not his wife or 3 children and an indomitable lady who I sadly only got to know in her 80's when I was a child. Of course the majority of my ancestors are the same as almost everyone else's - Ag Labs - Agricultural Labourers.
0% English ... Dads family is viking swede mums is clan Mcloed ... Very British though ... No one apart from the English like the English I heard ... Won't be any true English soon anyway .... All sorts making international babies ... Thank god the queens still around ... Now she is English and rocks too.
Oh god played for Liverpool when they were winners .. Number 7 used the name Dalglish .... Was at Celtic but hey .... Even god has to start amongst dirty micks with terrorist republican fans ....
Asked him for his daughters mobi ... Thought I was after his autograph ... Didn't like it it appeared ... Is the god thing real then? Seems like a tax for idiots for priests to bugger to me?
If it is I'm fooked and off to the firey hell after my capers ahem ahem ... Were the crusades after he got done by the Romans? Oops his son that one .. If after we took it off the filthy Saracens Jesus technically could play for England ... Still wouldn't get past the quarters lol
Causes endless confusion this Stevie ( a bit like you in that respect, what with the endless bloody name changes every week and what have you! :P ) . . . .
Devon is twinned with God's Own County. Twinned with. Like wot Leeds and Munich are. We let Devon have a bit of the Godliness is all, let 'em bask in the warm glow so a bit rubs off on 'em, you know. That's all.
Classic british mongrel here. The only interesting folk in my ancestral line were travelling players. The rest appear to have shovelled shit from one heap to another.
y ancestors arrived on English shores at the battle of Hastings in 1066, believe they did good so we stayed, not sure how English that make me
Personally speaking I don't give a toss where anyone's ancestors came from, if they live in Britain it is how they conduct thier lives here, it is where they have an alegiance to now, it is how they respect the customs and laws of this land they use as a home.
Shehab El-Din Ahmed El-Miniawi is a muslim who normally lives in this Country but at the moment he has gone to fight for what he believes in over there in Afghanistan, may he have a safe time and return soon to the land he calls home.
