British And Irish Roots

[Bobcat Fraser]

If you have them, from what country and/or region were they? Pick all that apply. List all the ones where you can find ancestors. Feel free to mention places if you wish to reply with more details.

[Uhtred]

Well, I have British ancestors. This is not very common in Brazil, we don't have a big British community here, and the few Brits are concentrated here in São Paulo, I can count in the fingers of my two hands all the Brits that I know here, and they descend mostly from English and Irish. One thing good at least, is that here in São Paulo we have plenty of Pubs.

Well, my ancestors were mostly from Aberdeen, Scotland, but I also have ancestors that came from York and Lancaster, in Northern England.

[Stefan]

All my English ancestors that I know of have come from the town of Heanor in the Derbyshire county in the East Midlands of England. They came to Tamaqua, Pennsylvania in the mid-19th Century and that line mostly worked as masons, although my Great-Great Grandfather was the sheriff of Tamaqua at one point if what my mother says is correct. His parents would have been the immigrants from England. That's all the ancestry from Britain I know of, although I wouldn't doubt I have some distant old stock English, Scottish, or some other ancestry mixed with my German ancestors, but I haven't found any.

[Graham]

Well, I have British ancestors. This is not very common in Brazil, we don't have a big British community here, and the few Brits are concentrated here in São Paulo, I can count in the fingers of my two hands all the Brits that I know here, and they descend mostly from English and Irish. One thing good at least, is that here in São Paulo we have plenty of Pubs.


Yes, but at least we introduced football to Brazil. :P

[Uhtred]

Yes, but at least we introduced football to Brazil. :P

Yeah it's true, thanks to Charles Miller, a great British-Brazilian. Other examples of great British-Brazilians are me and myself :rolleyes:
Joking
As I said, we have a community here, but it's small. British-Brazilians are concentrated in the states of São Paulo and in a minor sense, Paraná. There are some festivals and some meetings (that usually happen in PUBs). I always go when I can, my British ancestry is my favourite.
One impact that the British had here in Brazil (in my state at least) are the railroads they built. There are even some villages that were founded by the English responsable for the construction of these roads.

[Barreldriver]

The list (accounts for about 75% of my ancestry):

Yorkshire (agnatic lineage is from South Yorkshire), Northumberland, Suffolk, Hampshire, Somerset, Devon, Co. Antrim, Donegal, Tyrone, & Cavan.

Suffolk, Hampshire and the general Ulster area account for the bulk in the pedigree.