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coombs
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Thomas Roberts & Mary Ann Walder 1864 Marriage
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Hi
I have a 5xgreat grandfather who was Scottish and several 5 and 6x great grandparents who were the grandchildren of French Huguenot refugees in London and am more than pleased to have some non English ancestors. I dont want just a family tree that has a complete set on English rellies.
I am exceptionally pleased to have a bit of Scottish bagpipes in me. When I told my aunty she just said "Well that has probably well worn away by now". I thought, "Why"? I love non English ancestors.
Have you any relatives that dont like the fact that they have foreign overseas ancestors or UK but non English ancestors such as Welsh, Irish or Scottish ancestors?
Ben
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET/SOMERSET Coombs, pre 1780s.
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Palding
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham.
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe.
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster.
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk 1700s.
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift.
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain.
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honey-roma88
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Grandad Cecil
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I have Huguenot ancestors too. My mother's surname Honeysett is French Huguenot. 
I had a similar problem when contacting a relative online. She had a common ancestor with me but she didn't seem too pleased that they were in fact Jewish as she had always believed them to be Irish. At first she just dismissed the link in our families but I sent her the information I had and I never really heard back from her again.
It was a shame really as I have very few living relatives descended from that line. I hope I didn't upset her and would love to hear back from her again. 
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Romany/Traveller:
BLACKMAN, BUCKLAND, BURGESS, DIX, DOBSON, FOLEY, GRANT/PARKER, HUNT, JONES, MUNDAY/MONDAY, MORGAN, NOYELL, ORCHARD, PAGE, REED, VINCENT
Jewish:
BRAHAM, FROST, LYONS
French:
HONEYSETT, LEVETT PETTIT
English:
BELSHAW, BETTSWORTH, CANE, COVENTRY, DOBSON, FRY, NURSE, POOK, PUTLAND, PUTT, SMITH, SNELGROVE, TEE, TUDGAY, VENUS/VENESS
Irish:
ANDERSON, KILLOUGH, MACCORMACK, MACROBERTS, MORTON, MOORE, WALLACE
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coombs
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Thomas Roberts & Mary Ann Walder 1864 Marriage
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Hi
Wre your Jewish ancestors Polish, Russian or German Jews??
My French Huguenots came to London in 1865 mainly from Normandy or West France. The names are Auber, Fradin, Morin, Pequin etc. They were silk weavers and craftsmen and worshippped in many French churches in the East End Of London.
Ben
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Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET/SOMERSET Coombs, pre 1780s.
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Palding
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham.
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe.
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster.
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk 1700s.
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift.
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain.
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honey-roma88
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Grandad Cecil
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Hi
Wre your Jewish ancestors Polish, Russian or German Jews??
My French Huguenots came to London in 1865 mainly from Normandy or West France. The names are Auber, Fradin, Morin, Pequin etc. They were silk weavers and craftsmen and worshippped in many French churches in the East End Of London.
Ben
Mine were always more lowly, the oldest two I know of are Jacques and Adrien Annesett who were murderers. I have the court transcript from the 1500s (I think) - very far back indeed.
I have most of my information from hunnisett.org - Frengman means Frenchman.
Between 4 and 5pm on 28 July in Frankham Park in Wadhurst Adrian Annesett late of Wadhurst, 'Frengman', murdered Jordan Tassen late of Wadhurst, 'Frengman', with a knife called 'a Flemysprake' worth 3d. which was held in his right hand, giving him a wound in the right side 2 inches long of which he immediately died. John Annesett late of Wadhurst, 'Frengman', aided and abetted him in committing the murder, after which they both immediately fled.
I think they were mainly metal workers though.
My Jews were Sephardic, originally from Spain/Portugal they then went to Holland and then onto England sometime in the 18th Century. John Braham the tenor is my great, great, great, great, great grandfather's brother.
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Romany/Traveller:
BLACKMAN, BUCKLAND, BURGESS, DIX, DOBSON, FOLEY, GRANT/PARKER, HUNT, JONES, MUNDAY/MONDAY, MORGAN, NOYELL, ORCHARD, PAGE, REED, VINCENT
Jewish:
BRAHAM, FROST, LYONS
French:
HONEYSETT, LEVETT PETTIT
English:
BELSHAW, BETTSWORTH, CANE, COVENTRY, DOBSON, FRY, NURSE, POOK, PUTLAND, PUTT, SMITH, SNELGROVE, TEE, TUDGAY, VENUS/VENESS
Irish:
ANDERSON, KILLOUGH, MACCORMACK, MACROBERTS, MORTON, MOORE, WALLACE
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alllegs
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I have Welsh, Scottish, Huguenot and Scandanavian blood mixed in with my English, all of which I adore. All on my mums side except the Huguenots, they're only half related to me as my great great great gran's 1st hubby married into them and I'm from the 2nd hubby, although their son carried the Hugenot name as he was born before his parents marriage.
My only slight I suppose snobbery is towards my Herts and Beds ancestors. Being a proud Yorkshire family we were all a little disappointed to find one line didn't originate from Yorkshire on my dad's side! Oops!
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood,Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson WL-Williams |
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KathMc
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I have the complete opposite. I have an uncle who refuses to hear anything about our English ancestors, who are proving to be rather interesting. He insists it is all Irish in our blood. Well, he should pay to send me over there to find them then. 
Kath
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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA
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Deb D
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I'm not over 40 ... I'm 39.95 plus tax!
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Thankfully things are a little less ... erm ... isolationist (?), nowadays, ... because I strongly suspect, that ... had my late mother-in-law known that her 2xgt grandfather was Chinese ... she would have been absolutely mortified! She was quite okay with having had a Swedish grandfather (although not delighted by the fact that nobody seemed able to trace his roots - a situation which persists to this day), ... but 'way back when she was a child, unfortunately, the Chinese immigrants were not highly regarded. Quite sad, considering the amount of work these so-called "coolies" did, to help build Australia's rural heritage. They certainly have my respect.
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I live in Sydney, Australia, and I'm researching: -
Powell
Tatham
Dunbar
Dixon
Mackwood
Kinnear
Mitchell
Morgan
Delves
Anderson
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