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Topic: Where is your 'ancestral home' (Read 1203 times)
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*sparkle*
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And has it changed or your thoughts changed since you started your research?
I'm curious.... as I always thought I would always think of where I was brought up as my 'home', and I thought researching my family history may lead to somewhere exotic as I have an unusual surname.
However I have gone back to about 1630 in an area only about 8 miles from where I was brought up and very close (half a mile) to a place where I spent a lot of time as a child and a teenager (long story but its a forest...)
Anyway I now think of this place as my ancestral home rather than the few miles away where I was born and lived until I could 'escape' aged 18......
Has anyone had similar thoughts? Is your 'home' where you live? Or do you see your real 'home' as somewhere where your ancestors lived?
Tracey
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Nick29
RootsChat Aristocrat
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Well, I hadn't got much of a clue when I started - I knew that my grandfather on my mother's side came from Somerset, and my grandmother's family came from Suffolk. I didn't have a clue about my dad's side, although I had a vague suspicion that he was born in North London. Now, after just over a year of research, I now know that my family had a theme song...... "I've been everywhere, man" 
I think I have ancestors and tree branches in just about every part of England, and branches trailing over to America, Australia and France.
Where's my ancestral home ? Well, I've always had an affinity for East Anglia, and I think that's where it is.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lydart
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3569
Great Granny Williams, the Dorset button maker
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I have always loved Cornwall and the coast there with a passion ... ever since I first went there aged about 20.
Then I discovered my illegit. fathers family via his mother originated in Cornwall ... and have traced them there from the 1860's back to 1550 ... and possibly further back than that ...
So its Cornwall for me, even though I have never lived there ...
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Ebor337
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The past is a foreign country, how can we go there
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Similar to Wotty, I thought I was 'Yorkshire born and bred' but it turns out my name is entrenched i Suffolk. I spent 5 days down there and loved every minute of it.
Strange how the compass inside us all changes so quickly!
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Roobarb
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Looking for that elusive branch!
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I can hardly believe I've come across this thread after I've just posted something about my recent visit to Exeter on another thread.
As soon as I arrived in Exeter I had a good feeling about the place and when I visited Topsham where my ancestors actually lived, I felt so much at home. It's a long way from where I was born and still live, I don't know how they could bear to leave such a beautiful place.
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Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough. Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough. Etherington - North Yorks and Durham. Barker- North Yorks, Crooks- Durham, Forster- North Yorks/Durham, Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks
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cuthie
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This is maybe a wee bit off topic, but many years ago when we were about 13 years old my friend and I both acquired cycles and one night decided to try cycling along a road which was new to us.
We rounded this corner and both of us spoke at the same time, saying "I feel I've been here before." We both knew we hadn't, and what a strange feeling.
Regards
Cuthie
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kizmiaz
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Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
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I have just managed to trace one of my lines back to 1507, and it moves my earliest ancestral home about 1000 yards from my current home in Brighton!
A couple of yards a year isn't bad going really, is it?
Maybe by the 26th century, we'll by out of County!
Glen
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In Sussex - Robins, Willis, Hills, Winchester, Harwood, Breden, Jupp, Matthews, Windsor, Dove, Duly, Baker and lots more. In London - Scully, Day, Emery, Alger All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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*sparkle*
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Theres two things here that bemuse/amuse me...
1. How you can go somewhere for the first time and feel really comfortable... and then find some of your ancestors were actually from there!
2. How sometimes families don't really move very far. I'm from the borders and have chased one live back to the reivers.
But as I started this thread... I feel that my ancestral 'home' is Lochfoot. My Dad used to spend a lot of time there as a boy and has many happy memories cycling there from Dumfries. I used to do a lot of running in Mabie forest which it and Hills wood border the 'family farm'.
I don't know about anyone else but its certainly made me feel a lot more at peace with myself and my surroundings.... just have to persuade my O/H that its a good idea to move back 'home'..... 
Tx
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tinav40
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My ancestral home feels like home but that's because it is.
Not very well travelled us country bumpkins.
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47813
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This is a very good question
I guess on sheer number of people from one area, my ancestral home would be Rochdale, my birthplace.
However i was the very last of the last generation of certainly close family to be born in Rochdale, everyone has moved away now and even though having gone back with my tree and now feeling as if i'm related to half of Rochdale, i have to say as time goes by in my life i feel as if it is just that, the home of most of my ancestors.
Why?
1. because i left Rochdale when i was very small, too small to remember and so Preston where i've grown up feels like home. (Not that i've found anyone in my tree from Preston sadly - nearest was Blackpool)
2. Not all my branches come from Rochdale and that includes my lot, the Loughlin's
I would say like others have said, that your ancestral home is where you feel most comfortable and that for me is like i said - Preston
Though i still retain a fondness for Rochdale.
Jonathan
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LOUGHLIN - Galway, Ireland/Heywood, Lancs
HOWARTH - Rochdale
IVES - Rochdale via Yorkshire and Hollingworth
BRIDGENS - Rochdale via Stourbridge
JACKSON - Prescot
PENKETH - Prescot
CONNOLLY - Kilmain, Ireland/Heywood, Lancs
WILD - Rochdale via Wolverhampton
SANDERSON - Rochdale
KNIGHT - Rochdale via Holme, Huntingdonshire
BARROW - Marton nr Blackpool
DAGGER - Blackpool
BAILEY - Rochdale via Rushton, Staffordshire & Oldham
MAHER - London
BRIGGS - Doncaster
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ozlady
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Ex-South Wales. Down Under in Brisbane, Australia
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I've always had an affinity with the Welsh Borders, Herefordshire and mid-Wales. It was quite recently that I discovered that's where my roots are.
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Watkins, Price Herefordshire Brannan, Price, GLAM Edwards, Gardner MON Clark(e) SOM Census information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lydart
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3569
Great Granny Williams, the Dorset button maker
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Ancestral memory is something that I'm sure is genuine ... and I'd go so far as to say it can go back millenia ... look at the native poeples in Australia; they have it.
It sounds very far fetched, but when I lived in E. Africa, I felt a strong affinity with one area we visited many times; it was a feeling of 'I've been here before' ...
Some will say I'm being totally daft ... but I dont know ... Early man came out of Africa ...
Right ! Maybe I need a strong cuppa coffee ...
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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