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What Country is your main research centred on ?
| England and Wales |
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   725 (56.8%) |
| Ireland |
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207 (16.2%) |
| Scotland |
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202 (15.8%) |
| Emmigrants |
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89 (7%) |
| Immigrants |
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53 (4.2%) |
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Topic: What Country is your research ? (Read 27667 times)
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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My tale is more parochial.
My father was very proud of being a Londoner from North of the Thames, having been born in Walthamstow (E17) and brought up in Leyton (E10). Indeed, he lived there all his life.
Only Londoners will understand his story of an occasion during the war when a colleague introduced a stranger to him saying "here's a friend for you, someone else from London", only for my father to discover the stranger hailed from Croydon. (definitely not the same)
However, I wish he had known that on both sides of his family, they came from South of the River.
His mother's family, both sides, moved from out of London to Newington, Surrey (near Elephant and Castle), and his father's family from Kent and then the closest bit of London, Greenwich.
I am still a North Londoner, born and brought up in Leytonstone (home locality of David Beckham AND Alfred Hitchcock - now there's a pairing), and I still feel the same way about South London as my dad did, trained, no doubt, by him: it's not that I look down on the people from there, it's just not my home town.
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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Eyesee
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Posts: 1467
Rev Beaumaurice Stracey Clarke 1813-1897
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Somewhere in Portugal
Kuhlenstein in Germany
Kilmeague in Ireland
Fort Augustus area in Scotland
Somewhere in Wales, possibly Anglesey
Lots of places in England
Ian C
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CLAPHAM, Leeds and London
TOMLIENS, Herefordshire and Southwark
CLARKE, Sussex, Cambridge and Shropshire
FAULCONER, MANNINGTON, RICHARDSON, TICEHURST, BROOK, ELPHICK, All Sussex
UDY, CLEMENCE/CLEMENTS, Cornwall
BROOKING, Devon
FERNANDES, London
RUSH, CARTER, GIBSON, REMINGTON, London and Surrey
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IrishOrigins
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Posts: 39
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I only stumbled across this forum today and just can't resist adding my little "pedigree" to the ever growing list.
As an Australian, and therefore from a very new country (counted in the overall scheme of things) I thought, like most of us, that we hailed from "the old country". The definition of the term depended entirely on who you were talking to at the time and could have been either England or Ireland.
On my mother's side I found the following: A convict tried in Dublin and transported to "the colony of NSW" in 1800 forming a liaison with another convict tried in Bristol in 1801. Their daughter married another convict who was tried in County Kerry in 1811. Their daughter married the son of yet another convict who was tried in Tipperary in 1823. Then just for a total change of focus, their grand-daughter (my grandmother) married a man whose father was Chinese and whose mother was from Manchester.
Tracing this convoluted line has been a challenge, but fun, except for the Chinese part because my great-grandfather had adopted a very English surname prior to his marriage in 1864. Until I get beyond that English name I'm afraid my brick wall there is greater than the great wall of China.
My father's side is a lot less complicated because his line came to Adelaide from Kirriemuir in Angus in 1849. There is an intermingling with English there (maybe from Kent?) and one of my father's great uncles married a girl whose parents were born in Prussia.
My husband is Scottish - no more no less - and his line is so uncomplicated by comparison it is almost boring, but I have yet to track his family's movements back more than his grandfather in Falkirk.
How on earth do I describe my own racial or ethnic self?   
Philippa
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Byrnes, Wexford.
O'Brien, Hannigan, Waterford & Tipperary
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pinefamily
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Posts: 58
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Philippa,
As a fellow Aussie, I know exactly what you mean!
To answer your question (what do I call myself?), you are an Australian (from all the lands we come etc. etc.).
Between my wife and myself, we just about have the British Isles covered, not to mention half of Europe. But we are Australian, nationally, ehtnically, and in any other way you can think of.
Darren
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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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