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Are you English or British?
- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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Joey Deacon's Disco Suit
It's a THUG life
- Apr 19, 2010
- 854
mixed race then?
Yeah, I know but ethnologists have had Anglo-Saxon as a homogenous group for ages. And are Angles and Saxons that much different? Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein are bang smack next to each other after all. We're North Germans.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Having researched my family tree back to 29 of my 32 great great great grandparents, I find that I am 56 per cent English, 25 per cent Irish and 19 per cent Scottish.
The Scots are all from a tiny area, just north of the border. The Irish are all from a tiny area of Counties Cavan, Leitrim and Sligo. But the English are well spread - the West Midlands, Leicestershire, Cumberland, North Yorkshire and Northumberland/Durham. My kids have a mass of Cornish ancestry, that I don't share with them. Roz is part Irish, part Welsh, part English and part Scottish - and has a long Australian heritage, going back to a Scottish ancestor who sailed his whaling ship all the way to New South Wales in the 1830s and had children who married Irish immigrants in Victoria. I've lived in Sussex for most of my life, but does that give me a Sussex heritage?
The outcome is that we can all pick and choose what we want to make of ourselves. To be honest, I'm quite happy with that.
The Scots are all from a tiny area, just north of the border. The Irish are all from a tiny area of Counties Cavan, Leitrim and Sligo. But the English are well spread - the West Midlands, Leicestershire, Cumberland, North Yorkshire and Northumberland/Durham. My kids have a mass of Cornish ancestry, that I don't share with them. Roz is part Irish, part Welsh, part English and part Scottish - and has a long Australian heritage, going back to a Scottish ancestor who sailed his whaling ship all the way to New South Wales in the 1830s and had children who married Irish immigrants in Victoria. I've lived in Sussex for most of my life, but does that give me a Sussex heritage?
The outcome is that we can all pick and choose what we want to make of ourselves. To be honest, I'm quite happy with that.
aolstudios
Well-known member
Are you saying you traced your family tree back 1600 years? Or are you guessing like the rest of us?
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- #105
My wife is half Scouse and half German. Stan Boardman was more of a personal conundrum than a comedian to her.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I'd like to think that she has a comedian grandad who tells jokes about Scousers chipping his bomber.
Gullys Cats
Sausage by the sea!!!
Always English
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- #108
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
English and proud
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
having lived in Wales for nearly 9 years
most definitely
ENGLISH
most definitely
ENGLISH
melias shoes
Well-known member
- Oct 14, 2010
- 4,830
English.
NMH
Banned
I'm Worldish, European, British, English, Sussexian, Hoven, and my self.
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