How many of your Great Grandparents can you name?

[Lord Bracknell]

Most of us have EIGHT great grandparents. Do you know who yours were? And where were they born?

My eight:-

Father's father's father:- born in Newcastle on Tyne
Father's father's mother:- Heiton, Roxburghshire

Father's mother's father:- Hexham, Northumberland
Father's mother's mother:- Hexham, Northumberland

Mother's father's father:- Witton Park, County Durham
Mother's father's mother:- Old Monkland, Lanarkshire (to Irish immigrants)

Mother's mother's father:- Esh, County Durham (to Irish immigrants)
Mother's mother's mother:- Durham City


If your family comes from East Anglia, the chances are that you can only name about three different individuals, obviously, but don't be shy about admitting this.

 

[John Boy]

None

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Father's father's father:- born Brighton
Father's father's mother:- born Hove

Father's mother's father:- Brighton
Father's mother's mother:- Brighton

Mother's father's father:- Emsworth
Mother's father's mother:- Hove

Mother's mother's father:- Brighton
Mother's mother's mother Brighton

 

[Drumstick]

None :thud: Am I bad

 

[smudge]

Don't know, but my Grandparents were f***ing cockneys!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

My family have managed delve into the family records and got as far back as the early 1600s. To get to Brighton, we started in Cornwall and came via Lancashire.

 

[withdeanwombat]

All of mine; and some other family members back to circa 1650,and I expect others on the board can claim similar.It's down to ancestry.com,genesreunited,etc.

 

[Grizz]

My Mum's side of things are pretty easy, Her mothers side of the family were from Lurgashall in Hampshire and the Fathers side are from the Borders in Wales. I have no idea about Dad's side of the family though, would be interesting to know.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Mothers Father Father - Died in Brighton in the late 60's
Mother Father Mother- Died in Brighton either a few months before or after Mothers Father Father.

Fathers Mother Father - Killed in the First Word War a few weeks before my nan was born was called James and was Irish.

The rest I don't know anything about.

 

[Les Biehn]

I actually meet 3 of my Great Grand Parents.

Mother's Mother's Mother
Father's Father's Father
Father's Mother's Mother

 

[dougdeep]

My Father's father's mother lived on Denton Island in Newhaven and had a wooden leg. Fact! Her surname was Wheeler.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My Father's father's mother lived on Denton Island in Newhaven and had a wooden leg.

That would make a GREAT opening sentence to a novel.

 

[ali jenkins]

the two that i know are called gaga and pop pop

 

[Starry]

Father's father's father:- born in Co Donegal
Father's father's mother:- born in Co Donegal

Father's mother's father:- Born in Co Donegal.
Father's mother's mother:- Born in Meath. She is still alive today.

Mother's father's father:- Born in Derry. He is still alive.
Mother's father's mother:- Born in Derry. Also still alive.

Mother's mother's father:- Born in Co.Donegal.
Mother's mother's mother:- Born in Co. Donegal.

No close interbreeding but from our family tree it looks like two generations above were busy with their aunts, uncles, cousins. Eek.

 

[Yorkie]

Mother's mother's father:- Nehemiah Kingshott
Mother's mother's mother Georgina Kingshott

from Newhaven.

 

[dougdeep]

That would make a GREAT opening sentence to a novel.

I'll set to work sir.

 

[Yorkie]

All my father's family came from Ashurst, Partridge Green and Sayers Common but I don't know their names beyond my own grandparents (that I never knew as my father was an orphan by the time he was 15)

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Father's father's father:- born in Co Donegal
Father's father's mother:- born in Co Donegal

Father's mother's father:- Born in Co Donegal.
Father's mother's mother:- Born in Meath. She is still alive today.

Mother's father's father:- Born in Derry. He is still alive.
Mother's father's mother:- Born in Derry. Also still alive.

Mother's mother's father:- Born in Co.Donegal.
Mother's mother's mother:- Born in Co. Donegal.

No close interbreeding but from our family tree it looks like two generations above were busy with their aunts, uncles, cousins. Eek.

Your family sound like they were very late getting round to emigrating.

They all qualify to be what Brendan Behan found himself described as in New York - FBI.

"Foreign Born Irish"

 

[Giraffe]

Father's father's father:- Born in Glocestershire
Father's father's mother:- Born in Glamorgan Wales

Father's mother's father:- Born in Fittleworth, West Sussex.
Father's mother's mother:- Born in Fittleworth, West Sussex

Mother's father's father:- Born in Hambledon, Hants.
Mother's father's mother:- Born in Hambledon, Hants.

Mother's mother's father:- Born in Binsted, West Sussex.
Mother's mother's mother:- Born in Gumber, Slindon, West Sussex

All dead, and I only met my mother's mother's mother.
And I try and keep quiet about the Welsh part.

 

[surrey jim]

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