Stig-OT-Dump
Guru
- Location
- Glasgow's sunny southside
Some of my Richard the Thirds have very soft spots. (I can't find the nauseous smiley).badkitty said:Well said.Have a very soft spot for Richard the Third.
What were your ancestors like?
- Thread starter XmisterIS
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
My parents were the first generation to not be farmers in Northern Ireland, so farmers for a number of generations though they only leased the farms if you go back more than my grandparents.
Lardyboy
New Member
- Location
- Still Somewhere In Wales.
Unless you are a creationist then this is what we can all be traced back to.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Paternal side came over from eastern europe into North East @1900 ish so probably Jewish emigrees although we're all intact and partial to a bacon butty.
following my Dads line via my Grandma, ancestors are mainly in service - the interesting one in the family tree is 4G 'Mother: Ladies Maid, Father: Unknown - Son of a Gentleman.
I like a recent quote about the vikings in BBC History magazine'Hirsuit Holidaymaker with a bit of a rough edge'
Rich III does seem to be one of the more maligned figures in history, definite case of it being written by the victors there.
following my Dads line via my Grandma, ancestors are mainly in service - the interesting one in the family tree is 4G 'Mother: Ladies Maid, Father: Unknown - Son of a Gentleman.
I like a recent quote about the vikings in BBC History magazine'Hirsuit Holidaymaker with a bit of a rough edge'
Rich III does seem to be one of the more maligned figures in history, definite case of it being written by the victors there.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
If I could be bothered I'd try to fill in the gaps between Levi, Son of Jacob in Genesis and now but lots of water has passed under the bridge since the creation of the Levite tribe.
Hilldodger
Guru
- Location
- sunny Leicester
shouldbeinbed said:
Shakespeare did a lot of the damage
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
http://www.talamo.net/
Read all about my roots on my mother's side here. I'm generation 6 in the reckoning, and if you click on the link to Valentine in gen 4 you'll find a photo of my mum and bother. Search the site for reference to Josephine Servatius. She ended up in Paris in the mid 1800s, after her father was ripped off in a business deal in what was then Tzarist Russia. We used to have a mass of letters which my mum thought were love letters (they were in Italian and French copperplate script) Once they were translated the tragic story of Josephine's attempts to escape her impoverished state unfolded. They made pretty depressing reading.
There you have it. An inpoverished Russain refugee married into a family of Italian Opera singers. I think I'd rather be descended from people who wore woad and pillaged or whatever, but I'll have to look to Dad's side of the family for that.....
Read all about my roots on my mother's side here. I'm generation 6 in the reckoning, and if you click on the link to Valentine in gen 4 you'll find a photo of my mum and bother. Search the site for reference to Josephine Servatius. She ended up in Paris in the mid 1800s, after her father was ripped off in a business deal in what was then Tzarist Russia. We used to have a mass of letters which my mum thought were love letters (they were in Italian and French copperplate script) Once they were translated the tragic story of Josephine's attempts to escape her impoverished state unfolded. They made pretty depressing reading.
There you have it. An inpoverished Russain refugee married into a family of Italian Opera singers. I think I'd rather be descended from people who wore woad and pillaged or whatever, but I'll have to look to Dad's side of the family for that.....
DJ
Formerly known as djtheglove
- Location
- On my bike in the smoke!!!!!!!!!!
Fathers side are a long line of Scottish farmers and a huge tribe of Welsh Warriors.
Mothers side are Russian nobility and English Inteligensia, it's only recently our family seem to have fallen off there plinth!!!
Mothers side are Russian nobility and English Inteligensia, it's only recently our family seem to have fallen off there plinth!!!
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XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Cubist said:
That's a nice little website, and an invaluable thing to have for future generations of your family.
Cubist said:
Well, I don't think my Viking ancestors wore woad, but they certainly ran into battle screaming, "Victory or Valhalla!". Clearly, they chose the first option or I wouldn't be here!
I think my ancestors aren't all Vikings though, I am certain I have a healthy mix of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon in there too.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
On my father's side, we probably came over with William the Bastard, while my mother's maiden name suggests uninterupted Saxon-ness. I like to think I'm a first generation Norman-Saxon cross.
More importantly, both sides feature in The Archers... Tum te tum, te tum te tum....
More importantly, both sides feature in The Archers... Tum te tum, te tum te tum....
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
dellzeqq said:
Vikeonabike
CC Neighbourhood Police Constable
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
My family (paternal side have been traced back to the Gibletts of Hartney Witney in the 1500s and linked to the Sandhurst and St Ives (Cambs) areas. We know there was a Giblett in Sandhurst as far back as 1250.
