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Question: What Country is your main research centred on ?
England and Wales   -725 (56.8%)
Ireland   -207 (16.2%)
Scotland   -202 (15.8%)
Emmigrants   -89 (7%)
Immigrants   -53 (4.2%)
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #180 on: Monday 07 April 08 11:09 BST (UK) »

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--------

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Smith, Pearce, Flew, Comben, Stone, Scriven, Hind,  family's Portland Limm, Vickery, Wyke Regis & Beminster, Abboutsbury, Dorset England
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #181 on: Monday 07 April 08 11:37 BST (UK) »

I can imagine, Drifter.
Tailoring runs in the Welsh side of my family, me, my Mum, my Grandfather and back as far as Adam and Eve ... well, that's what Mum thought...
Turns out Grandfather was the first...before that they were woodworkers(so that's where my uncle got his woodworking skills from) and farmers....
How these family legends can crumble.....
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Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
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Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #182 on: Monday 07 April 08 21:40 BST (UK) »

Thanks for the welcome. I find I am spending hours just looking around here. Some very interesting reading.
Chris
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Green, Australia
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #183 on: Monday 07 April 08 22:14 BST (UK) »

You'll love it here, and soon get involved, Chris, I can guarentee that.
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Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
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Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #184 on: Sunday 13 April 08 07:05 BST (UK) »

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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Devon/Dorset- Pine
Gloucestershire/Surrey/Dorset- Dowdeswell
Glasgow- Donnan
Pittaway-Oxfordshire
Snoswell-Kent
Lundquist-Hernosand, Sweden
Lindner-Silesia, Prussia
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #185 on: Sunday 13 April 08 10:17 BST (UK) »

Oh heck, Darren, you've got a mixed bunch there.
You've come to the right place, though.
Hope you have fun.
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Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
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Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #186 on: Sunday 13 April 08 14:15 BST (UK) »

My ancestors are all from the south of England except one from Birmingham, Warwickshire.

I did however find out last year that my 3x G Grandmother was named Sarah MOUCHET born about 1825 Lambeth, London. Her father according to her marriage certificate was named Samuel MOUCHET. I have not found his birth yet.

So it would seem that i have a bit of French blood in me. But when did they come to England ?

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STURGES  Kent, London             BURGESS  Hants
EDEY  London, Hants                 BIGGS  Hillingdon     
HOWICK  Surrey                        COLE  Clerkenwell
PRINCE  Oxfordshire                  BOLTON  Warwickshire
BUSHELL  Kent                           WEBB  Lambeth, Reigate
JOSEPH  Lambeth                       ROOT  Essex
VINCE Shoreditch                       CARTER  Kent
HOOPER  Devon                         BRISTER  Herts
DANIELS  Kent                           MOUCHET  London
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #187 on: Wednesday 16 April 08 15:47 BST (UK) »

My father's side of the family never seem to set foot outside of Preston in Lancashire.
my mother's side a bit more adventurous they came from Shopshire, then moved to Lancashire.

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #188 on: Friday 18 April 08 13:18 BST (UK) »

It's the Wars of the Roses in my family.  Yorkshire and Lancashire.  I think Yorkshire won. Wink

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #189 on: Monday 21 April 08 13:19 BST (UK) »

My research is England and Wales. I'm really trying to concentrate on Wales at the moment. I'm now past the censuses. So it is getting harder to trace especially the maiden names hence that is why I am only researching one name. The area my family are from is Llanely Breconshire, and Bridgend Glamorgan. Besides finding more information on these boards, I hope to make some friends.
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Lewis; Glamorgan, Wales. Mondel and Sim, Lancashire. Dimmock, Devon. Ollier, Cheshire. McCarthy, Ireland
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #190 on: Monday 21 April 08 15:01 BST (UK) »

Hi gardenqueen and welcome to RootsChat.
Good board this, you'll never regrett joining.
Nice people, nice set up.
I have ancestors in Pembrokeshire and they have been a pain the the bottom I can tell you.
Luckily so far I have not come across any double names... I haven't got a John John or a Thomas Thomas... they tell me those are REALLY fun Shocked
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Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #191 on: Monday 21 April 08 16:30 BST (UK) »

Thank you so much for the warm welcome. Actually, I have quite a bit of English blood on my mother's and father's side. So far, it is Cheshire, Lancashire. and Devon so far.  I haven't came across any double names either so far. That is all I need. Oh yeah also Scot and Irish. So I'll probably will be using these boards alot.
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Lewis; Glamorgan, Wales. Mondel and Sim, Lancashire. Dimmock, Devon. Ollier, Cheshire. McCarthy, Ireland
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #192 on: Monday 21 April 08 16:47 BST (UK) »

northern rhodesia god bless where have they all gone
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« Reply #193 on: Monday 21 April 08 17:02 BST (UK) »

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.

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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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« Reply #194 on: Monday 21 April 08 17:54 BST (UK) »

elda, you've come to a good place to find help in tracing them...
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Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
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