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LizzieW
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I always thought my background was Lancashire, although I did know some of my mum's ancestors were from Lincolnshire, but having now done some research, I find that I am more Yorkshire than anything else, with Cheshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Scotland thrown in.
Oddly though the place I feel most at home is around the Tarn and Lot in France. The first time I went there I felt as if I knew the area and I didn't want to go home when the holiday was over - not the usual not wanting the holiday to end, but more that I was already at home and didn't want to go back to England. As far as I know I don't have any French ancestors, although maybe that is the clue to my brickwall, who knows? 
I also love the sea - not the beach, can't stand the sand - but the rough rolling seas, I've since found out that some of my male ancestors were fishermen/trawlermen.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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Pegasuss
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Since i was a nipper I have always felt at home Up in the Mountains of North Wales!
Then (@17-18Yrs old) I started searching for My Ancestors, most of whom have lived within @1-2 Mile square (in Liverpool) since @1800 (some only moving 1 or 2 streets in a few Generations!
30+ years after starting my searchs I have recorded ancestors from:
Lancashire (pre-1800-to Present)
Cheshire (pre-1800)
Shropshire (pre-1860's)
Ireland (1808-C1855)
Prussea (pre-1850)
South Africa (C1920-Present)
New Zealand (C1945-Present)
Canada (C1910-?)
USA (C1945-Present)
& Caernarvonshire, North (Welsh) Wales
P.S.
On My First visit to Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire (@14-15Yrs old) we were looking for a good place for a Snack I lead the Family through a few streets to what turned out to be the best Cafe in the Town.  
P.P.S.
I served My Time as an Apprentice Plater/Fabricator Welder, & now have found that even that is in My Genes (a few Ancestral Boilermakers & a couple of Blacksmiths).
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Nick29
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Some will say I'm being totally daft ... but I dont know ... Early man came out of Africa ...
Ummm....... I think you ought to Google continental drift
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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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damnonii
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I'm lucky enough from a genealogical point of view to have quite a distinct surname which I always knew originated in Donegal. When we travelled around Ireland about 7 years ago now, I hadn't started any research but knew I had links in Cork and Donegal. Although we spent a week in Cork, Donegal was where I felt most at home and I still have fairly vivid memories of the towns we went through and even the peat reek in the air at night. My name is quite rare in Scotland and it was a very strange feeling travelling through Letterkenny and seeing our name above Newsagents, Butcher's Shops, Solicitors and even the local car garage. Sadly I now know that we passed the town where my 4x g-grandparents and their son came from by just a few miles. One day I'll go back there and visit properly.
In saying that though, I recently visited the area North of Biggar in Scotland where a branch of my mother's family is from and felt really at home there, particularly in Ellsrickle and Walston kirkyard. I found it very peaceful and incredibly beautiful which is unusual for me as normally I'm a mountains and seascapes sort of girl, not rolling countryside.
Really I have to say that I have ancestral homes across the central belt of Scotland, in the Borders and in Aberdeen; in Shropshire in England; in Cork, Donegal and other unidentified places in Ireland, and to say I have just one would be to ignore the majority of people who've got me here including the whole of my mother's family lol. Plus it won't stop me feeling a pang of belonging to Glasgow, where I was born and live now, even though in historical terms my family have only came here relatively recently.
Lora.
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MCGINLAY (Donegal, Glasgow) MCADAM (Rosneath, Greenock, Troon, Ayr, Glasgow) HAYES (Cork) MCINTOSH (Perth, Aberdeen, Glasgow) HOWDEN (Lothians) PAGAN (Borders, Lothians, Otago NZ) NEILSON (Airdrie) KINNIBURGH (Shotts, Airdrie) HOUSTON (Ballymena, Airdrie) my family tree: http://mcginlay.tribalpages.com |
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Pegasuss
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Lora.
I Know that somewhere I have some Scots Roots! (ever since I can remember I get a Warm Fealing & the Hackles on My Neck Stand Up whenever I Hear 'The Pipes').
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Mogsmum
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Even before I started looking at our family, I always fancied marrying a farmer so I guess (with the benefit of hindsight) I shouldn't have been surprised to find as many Ag.Labs as I have! In the event, no farmer came along so I married a civil servant, but .... we honeymooned in Wiltshire from where, years later, I learned all my husband's relatives hailed.
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damnonii
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Actually that's funny I've never been much affected by the bagpipes (maybe I was scarred by the experience of having a full pipe band go past in a very narrow street when I was about 6!) but my hackles go up when I hear the smaller pipes, I think they're known as Border/Lowland pipes or Irish pipes. As it turns out I don't have that much clan ancestry, but I do have a lot of Lowland and Irish blood.
Lora
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MCGINLAY (Donegal, Glasgow) MCADAM (Rosneath, Greenock, Troon, Ayr, Glasgow) HAYES (Cork) MCINTOSH (Perth, Aberdeen, Glasgow) HOWDEN (Lothians) PAGAN (Borders, Lothians, Otago NZ) NEILSON (Airdrie) KINNIBURGH (Shotts, Airdrie) HOUSTON (Ballymena, Airdrie) my family tree: http://mcginlay.tribalpages.com |
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toni*
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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
my fathers family orignated from Cornwall (father) and Leicester (mother)
we have always holidayed in COrnwall so this feels mildly like home
but my mothers family (mother) comes from Sussex about 45 mins drive away from where i live now so mine were a bit faster than yours Glen
my grandfather comes form the Ukraine right near the border to Poland i have just discoverd although he told me little Kiyv by the river - i have never been but it would be good to go.
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kizmiaz
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Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
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Funnily enough, I felt more "at home" living in Kiev (as it was called at the time. Didn't get it's Ukrainian spelling till several years later!) than I have ever felt in Brighton.
It's what actually started me on my genealogical "quest", to find the missing Russian ancestor, who now almost certainly doesn't exist
Odd how these things go!
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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0rinoco
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ggg Uncle John Artus (seated)
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Like others on here, I always imagined that my ancestors had always lived in Lancashire. However, when I was about 18 I was told that we were originally from Gloucestershire. When I retired, I decided to follow this up and discovered the reason for my being born in Manchester. My great-great-grandfather had enlisted in the 7th Hussars in 1846 and then deserted. It's a long story, but, briefly, he finished up hiding in the slums of Ancoats. His father, by the way, had been imprisoned for cattle theft. 
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Artus, anywhere UK
Gabb, Glos.
Wathern, Glos.
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Nick29
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Funnily enough, I felt more "at home" living in Kiev (as it was called at the time. Didn't get it's Ukrainian spelling till several years later!) than I have ever felt in Brighton.
I've often felt more at home in the Canary Islands (where I have no family connections, as far as I'm aware) than in the UK.
I suspect the sun, sea and relaxed conditions may have had something to do with that
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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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