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What Country is your main research centred on ?
| England and Wales |
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   937 (54.4%) |
| Ireland |
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305 (17.7%) |
| Scotland |
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293 (17%) |
| Emmigrants |
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118 (6.9%) |
| Immigrants |
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68 (4%) |
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Topic: What Country is your research ? (Read 40049 times)
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WiggyHobbes08
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Posts: 342
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Hi all,
I've only been doing family research for a few months but have found out much with help from other family members far removed. Most of our family originated in UK - Devon, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Dumfriesshire. Luckily most have been here for generations - true blue Aussies now! Can even trace some to the first fleet - both convicts and marines. 
This is a wonderful resource. Thanks! 
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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania Australia)
Brown, Johnstone, Cumming, Cunningham, Crawford, Jack (Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire, Scotland)
Percy, Dunning, (Devon, England)
Convicts of First/Second Fleet.
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joolsk
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 4
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mine came from all over the place -Bedforshire -Shropshire -Essex -Norfolk Manchester -Middlesex and Instanbul with a bit of Dublin and Belfast throen in for good measure .
have joined today it looks good just hope it helps abit
Joolsk
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Maggie1895
RootsChat Member
Posts: 138
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My family just had itchy feet.
Brought up on the family legend that we are descended from an illegitimate daughter of the Bruce himself, I can't say I've got anywhere near back that far! (though with the number of illegits he acknowledged, the smaller population and the centuries of local marriager since, the chances are everyone in the south west of Scotland is linked to him in some way after all these years)
Part of my father's family are rock solid Dumfriesshire and Lanarkshire for yonks, another part I thought was also West of Scotland for ever, turn out to be from Ireland, along with so many others, in the 1850s {but as Ulster Protestants probably got there from Scotland originally.}
My mother's side always seemed to be Kent, (and one part is) but the rest turns out to be mainly Lancashire and Shropshire, which was a surprise.
Of the one Scottish strand that were settled for centuries, my grandmother married my Glasgow grandfather and they headed off to Africa as missionaries in the 1890s. Having got the travel bug, he then went to Canada as a Ship's Doctor, they moved to New Zealand, came back in the 1st World War, and shifted to England...
Building my husband's tree was always going to be easier, because he is Lancashire 'and nowt else' - erm, no. He's been stunned to find he has a lot of Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire roots, and even more so to find his great grandmother was born in Hungary and HER mother was French!
It's not so much where is my research as where isn't it..
Can I say that since finding this board I think it's ace, everyone is just so helpful - and knowledgeable.
Maggie
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caroldawn
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 57
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well I find that we have ancestors in most countries,My mothers descendants came from scotland Kinrosses, Collace, Dundee, Glasgowand Canada.. my fathers parents come from cumberland, and Antrim northern Ireland and Canada.my husbands mother came from Kippax,tadcaster,Leeds areas, and his fathers parents were from Cambridge, wicken,St ives,Houghton. and we live in new zealand, also have relatives in australia.
caroldawn
carr,Millar,Imrie,Morton,johnston
rothery,Mclaughlin,Black,Taggart
Farrar,Johnston,cawthra,
Bailey,Kiddle
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Lei
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 14
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Hi Everyone,
My research? Very much in the south of England.
Now there is the lot from the south east who moved west (just a little) and the lot in the south west who moved east, where they all eventually met in London (SE would you believe!!).
Then there was a wild card who married a South African, travelled a bit & settled back in... southern England!
Oh and I almost forgot.. the Italian connection, who settled in the south east!!
What more can I say except for 'what a great site'. 
Lei
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Broadhurst,Cook, Cooper (England South coast & Surrey),Edwards, Harradine (suffolk?Surrey) Horn(e), Jameson (bermondsey lightermen), Mun(n)s(bermondsey), Maspero(Capiago Italy/Carshalton, Surrey), Muirhead (bermondsey),Pain(e), Squires (sussex), Wiley (south Africa), Yeomans (bermondsey).
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Peterpimlico
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 14
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I suppose I must be one of the lucky ones! My family are still living within 38 miles of where the family is first recorded in 1379. I traced them back to 1490, but can't get back any further. In fact they spent 230 years on one farm in the 16th/17thC that I occasionally visit. Lancs/North Yorks boundry country. Oh! by the way 38 miles is not far, but took me more than 38 years to find the information! So, never give up.
Regards................... Peter
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Erato
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1184
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How is this good luck? Much more fun to have a great diversity of ancestors.
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Wiltshire: Banks, Taylor
Somerset: Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire: Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol: Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down: Ennis, McGee
Wicklow: Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire: Logan, Conning
Wisconsin: Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine: Ware, Mitchell, Tarr
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hmcmillan29
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 85
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My fathers side of the family are Scottish and my mothers English.
The majority of my Scottish ancestors are from Ayrshire....Kilmarnock, Beith, Kilbirnie.
My Mothers side were from London.
I have discovered Huguenot ancestors who settled in Bethnal Green and were Silk Weavers.
I haven't managed to get back to when they first arrived in Britain as so far they are all born in and around Bethnal Green.
The ancestor mentioned in Patsy Kensits programme, was the person who baptised some of my ancestors. James Mayne I think was his name at St Matthews Church.
Hazel
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Huguenots, Silk weavers, Bethnal Green, Mdx
Sharpe - Bethnal Green, Mdx
Painel/Painell/Pennel - Bethnal Green, Mdx
McMillan - Kilmarnock, Beith, Kilbirnie (all Ayrshire), Glasgow, Ireland
Young - Beith, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire
Hamilton - Glasgow, Midlothian
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