Am I really related to William the Conqueror??

[Lookin2]

Smudwhisk

Where did I say all Ardens were related.  I thought that Stanmapstone's comment on the name of Arden was interesting for those with the name of Arden.  I have no idea when lots of us have the same surname who is directly related to whom. 

I thought Stanmapstone's comment was interesting re the Ardens nothing more, nothing less and hope he still posts when he comes across something of interest to all of us amateurs.  Lookin2

[jbml]

not confirmable unless they were sufficiently well off to leave a paper trail.

Far more likely to be confirmable if they were sufficiently well off to leave a parchment trail ...

[JAKnighton]

So they have a mid-19th century Huntingdonshire ag lab having children in Huntingdonshire, Manchester, Yorkshire, Sussex, London, and back to Huntingdonshire again ...

Errrrrr ... I think not!

Funnily enough, I have a mid-19th century Huntingdonshire ag lab who had moved to Yorkshire with his wife, had a few kids there, then moved back to Huntingdonshire in-between censuses!

[Gillg]

A distant relative has our family line traced back via Ethelred the Unready to the Saxon Cerdic King-of-West (reigned 534-560 AD)  and on the other side Scottish kings back to Fergus MorMacErc, King of Scots d.501. It's all very convincing, and is traced back in a long line, but who knows?  (I'm feeling very superior to Danny Dyer already. )  On my father's side, however, I seem to be descended from a long line of ag labs and cobblers.

[ThrelfallYorky]

So: you too have a load of Cobblers in your ancestry? I literally have, but some trees seem to metaphorically have 'em, too, don't they?

[Gillg]

I was resisting the pun about cobblers, even though I felt that was what my relative's tree was!

[Geoff-E]

When Dr Cameron's phone rang, Janet would lift the earpiece and answer "Arden House".

[coombs]

I have managed to get further back on some lines recently and found some prosperous ancestors in the 1600s. So a slightly bigger chance of Billy The Conq being a direct ancestor. 

[Guyana]

So: you too have a load of Cobblers in your ancestry? I literally have, but some trees seem to metaphorically have 'em, too, don't they?

And you think you've got problems.  My family name derives from Cordwainer, which in fact a cobbler.