Emigrants / Immigrants

[glasgowcyclist]

I can trace my family back to Islay (via other Hebridean islands and the mainland) to around 1750, so far. I must see if I can claim a share in any of the many distilleries there..

GC

 

[Bollo]

I did a bit of family treeing recently. I discovered that my dad's side is proper Mancunian right back into the early 1800s except for his great grandmother, who was born in Liverpool for some reason. The shame!

 

[colly]

I'm a mongrel.

Fathers side: Great x a few Grandfather arrived from Prussia in the late 1700's and joined the Navy.
Mother's side: Possibly some distant Scandinavian roots or even French and Scottish

 

[Maz]

Parents born in India, then fled to Pakistan during the troubled partition.
Dad came to England and settled in Sheffield via Whitley Bay, so I could've been a Geordie...

 

[Booyaa]

Pretty much all my family are from Scotland going back hundreds of years. I have one Uncle who was born just outside Leeds but he is despised in the family, being a yorkshire man and all.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I know very little specific detail, but I know we had ancestors in such exotic places as Cleethorpes, Durham, county Cork and also Scotland.
My Great Grandfather on my mum's side was a boiler maker at Grimsby docks, posh eh!

 

[Bollo]

Parents born in India, then fled to Pakistan during the troubled partition.
Dad came to England and settled in Sheffield via Whitley Bay, so I could've been a Geordie...

My father-in-law has the same history - technically born in India but caught up in partition. He came to London in the early '60s and married a proper cockney girl - a very big deal in those days. So Mrs Dr Bollo is half Pakistani, although she's so English she takes tea bags on holiday.

Swinging OT a bit, I was made slightly nervous by all the blond-haired Roma kid stories recently. Bolletta looks nothing like her mum - Bolletta's pale, has light green eyes and darkish hair with a redish tinge - very Celtic really. And at 11 she's 2 inches taller than her mum. I have on occasion seen people double-check when they find out they're mother and daughter.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...she's so English she takes tea bags on holiday...

If you don't, it's Liptons. And you wouldn't want that

 

[Spinney]

English that far back, at least. Dad's family from Durham area, mining, and pub managing. He went into teaching after national service.
Mum's family from London, but before that from Essex, I think. Not sure what they did, but they were proper working class, innit.
Mum was dead chuffed when all three of her sprogs when to uni and got a degree!

 

[hopless500]

Parents - Midlands, 1 set of grandparents Glasgow & Lancs, 1 set of grandparents Midlands, possibly Germany comes into play further back, but not 100% sure.

 

[Crackle]

Mum was dead chuffed when all three of her sprogs when to uni and got a degree!

Interesting that, my generation in our extended family, cousins etc., were the first to go onto Uni and do degrees. Before that, my mothers and fathers generation, no one had.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Interesting that, my generation in our extended family, cousins etc., were the first to go onto Uni and do degrees. Before that, my mothers and fathers generation, no one had.

Same here. I was the first person in my family to get an undergrad degree... my dad joined the army at 16 and my mum dropped out of school to marry my dad.

 

[Rasmus]

I'm a recent (well, 4 and a half years now) immigrant

Never did any research on the topic, but I don't have any reason to believe my bloodline is anything but Danish.

 

[Spinney]

Interesting that, my generation in our extended family, cousins etc., were the first to go onto Uni and do degrees. Before that, my mothers and fathers generation, no one had.

My dad got a teaching certificate, so partway there. Mum never even finished school properly, cos of being evacuated during the war.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Dad's side...Scottish through and through - my grandmother worked as a cook at Balmoral for some years
Mum's side...Scotttish except for my grandfather who arrived in Scotland from Sheffield, looking for work, and met and married my grandmother