Emigrants / Immigrants

[Fnaar]

The Emigration thread started me thinking... how many CCers are the product of immigration to the UK? (I know some of you live abroad, but most on here are UK-based).
Not going back to Anglo-Saxon migration, that would be silly, but let's say up to 2 maybe three generations back.
For my part, my parents both left Ireland in the 1950s (my dad after long-term unemployment, my mum looking to train as a nurse). They met over here, settled down and had sprogs.

 

[Venod]

"that's not just a different country, it's a different world."

And the best world.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Father was born in London, but his family was a combination of Eastern European Jewish, Irish, Lancashire via the USA, and Suffolk. Mother is Highland Scots with a dash of Welsh and going back a bit, French Huguenot. My wife is Japanese, and my son is Japanese, Canadian and British. We are currently in Tokyo, but we live in Canada.

 

[ianrauk]

Mothers side
Great grandfather - Austrian
Great grandmother - Irish
They settled in Scotland and had a son.
Grandfather - Scottish, moved to Cardiff and met my Grandmother.
Grandmother - Welsh
They moved and settled in England (London)
Mother - English
Me - English

Fathers side are all English as far as we can trace back.

 

[MontyVeda]

bearing in mind the entire area was once under lots of ice, we're all immigrants... it's a dud question.

 

[Fnaar]

bearing in mind the entire area was once under lots of ice, we're all immigrants... it's a dud question.

Ahem... I said just going back 2 or 3 generations

 

[Archie_tect]

Both sides go back 3 generations in Yorkshire though I do have a Great Grandad [well he thought so] born in Sunderland and before that Elgin...

 

[welsh dragon]

1st generation immigrant

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

[QUOTE 2735599, member: 1314"]and @Marshmallow_Fluff who is from the land of the Zen Katz. innit This is what she looks like in real life - cool!

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..are you implying that I am pregnant or just fat, G?


Well, not sure about ZenKatLand, but I am a 'proper pick-n-mix'! So...

Mum's side: Italian/Greeks & Swedish/Greeks
Dad's side: Spanish/Greeks & Greek/Greeks
AND I'm -as already mentioned- born and raised in Athens, currently living in UK.

 

[swee'pea99]

Dad a Kiwi; mater English (posh).

 

[MontyVeda]

Ahem... I said just going back 2 or 3 generations

but why does it matter?

we all came here at some point... some last week, some last year, some two or three generations ago, some with William the Conqueror, some with Romans and some with the Celts and Picts.

it's not silly.

 

[Keith Oates]

Cornish on both my Mother and Father's side for as far back as we can trace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fnaar]

but why does it matter?
we all came here at some point... some last week, some last year, some two or three generations ago, some with William the Conqueror, some with Romans and some with the Celts and Picts.
it's not silly.

No, it isn't, and of course you are quite right. I'm just interested, that's all. For me, the interest comes from my parents' experience... I was raised in a very 'Irish' house, culturally, but count myself as very English/British in my own cultural development and outlook, while retaining a strong interest in my heritage. At my primary school, 90% (ish) of the kids had immigrant parents (Italian and Irish mostly, with a few others) and the street I grew up in had very few 'English' families on it, so immigration and cultural heritage have always had a strong influence on me, so it's simply an interest that stems from that.

 

[Crackle]

I think I just make it. Might be out by one generation but my fathers side are from Ireland, Cartwrights. There's even some scandal, a bigamist who went to jail for it, was a brother of a great, great, great grandfather. Don't know much about my mothers side, possibly from Wales but much further back.

 

[Linford]

Covered this already in other threads
I am 2nd gen immigrant.
Dad- born in India, moved to the UK in 47 as was a soldier in the British Army (joined over there as a boy, and was seconded to the Indian army for a while as a radio operator), spent rest of his working life in the service of the crown in communications.
Grandfather - Half English, Half Indian, Born in India, Worked as a waterworks engineer in a pumping station for Calcutta, Died young when Dad was 2.
Grandmother - Irish descent, but born in India, worked as a Nurse and Midwife in Calcutta and Darjeeling (according to the season), Also died young.

Mum - Born in South Wales, trained as a seamstress and worked as a piano teacher
Grandfather - Welsh, Worked in the rolling Mills nr Swansea, was also a very successful brass player in big bands in the 30's (sax, cornet, etc), died of work related illness from the mills in the 60's.
Grandmother - Welsh, worked as a welder during the war, died 10 years ago