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What Country is your main research centred on ?
| England and Wales |
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   722 (57%) |
| Ireland |
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203 (16%) |
| Scotland |
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201 (15.9%) |
| Emmigrants |
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87 (6.9%) |
| Immigrants |
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53 (4.2%) |
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| Total Votes: 863 |
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Topic: What Country is your research ? (Read 27283 times)
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drifter
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Flooding in Victoria square 1842
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My farther has for year been banging on about how we are all Portland born "strong in the arm thick in the head" and he is very very proud of that fact, (for thouse of you who don't know Portland is all but an island stuck on the bottom of England, when i started my search a very old auntie gave me her findings from a previous tree search and it did indeed confirm that the family went back many generation on the Island and Royal Manor of Portland.
However when i started to receive wedding and birth certificates, from the department of national records something was clearly a miss,
Turns out my old auntie had changed the marrage dates, as she had found out that she was born out of wedlock, this meant that my G,G,G,G,Grandfarther could not be who she had on the tree and was in fact with a bit of searching, a descendant from a John Smith of Plymouth,
The shock almost did my dad in poor old B--------
Drifter
Keeeeep searching
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Smith, Pearce, Flew, Comben, Stone, Scriven, Hind, family's Portland Limm, Vickery, Wyke Regis & Beminster, Abboutsbury, Dorset England
KEEEEEP SEARCHING !
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pinefamily
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Posts: 55
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello fellow rootschatters,
As well as the usual areas of Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cornwall & Suffolk to name a few (not to mention Scotland), I have the more unusual ones of Sweden & Germany.
And that's on top of Australia & New Zealand!
Darren (in Oz)
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Pine/Pyne one-name study
Devon/Dorset- Pine
Gloucestershire/Surrey/Dorset- Dowdeswell
Glasgow- Donnan
Pittaway-Oxfordshire
Snoswell-Kent
Lundquist-Hernosand, Sweden
Lindner-Silesia, Prussia
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skimble
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It's the Wars of the Roses in my family. Yorkshire and Lancashire. I think Yorkshire won. 
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adle
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Posts: 57
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northern rhodesia god bless where have they all gone
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LizzieW
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Me aged 9 with 2 g.grans - Thanks to Gadget
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I always considered myself to be a Lancastrian, parents born and bred in Manchester and I was born there. Turns out they were 1st generation Mancunians and my dad's side of the family originated in Suffolk and Lancashire (in what is now Cumbria). On my mum's side, it was Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Cheshire. What started me off on my research was someone else doing a family tree and finding my 4xg.grandfather was Scottish, so you live and learn.
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
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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