Embracing English Ancestry and England

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

York and Edwnbrah are the two most beautiful cities in the UK in my humble opinion:

Yes, they are beutiful. I wanted to add that as far as I know I also have ancestors from counties Northamptonshire and Norfolk.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

Mayflower eh? Not bad lad, not bad at all And being from Ipswich chances are that you are part wizard too!

What is that supposed to mean?

I am descended from a woman who was accused of being a witch from Daventry, Northamptonshire. She came to the new world. http://www.historic-northampton.org/...sonstrial.html



This is actually her.

[Desaix DeBurgh]

I'm like 12.5% English but I look more French, than anything else, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was Anglo-Norman (French) heritage. 12.5% is like nothing.

[Desaix DeBurgh]

My ancestors came from Ipswich, Suffolk county. They came to the new world very early on I am a direct descendant of a London youth who came on the Mayflower as an indentured servant also.

Mine is from London England.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

I'm like 12.5% English but I look more French, than anything else, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was Anglo-Norman (French) heritage. 12.5% is like nothing.

How do you know you're 12.5% English? DNA?

[SupaThug]

I'm like 12.5% English but I look more French, than anything else, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was Anglo-Norman (French) heritage. 12.5% is like nothing.

12,5% is a significative amount of english ancestry!

[Smaug]

What is that supposed to mean?

I am descended from a woman who was accused of being a witch from Daventry, Northamptonshire. She came to the new world. http://www.historic-northampton.org/...sonstrial.html



This is actually her.

Very nice indeed. I said that because Ipswich has a connection with witchery.

I'm like 12.5% English but I look more French, than anything else, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was Anglo-Norman (French) heritage. 12.5% is like nothing.

12,5% is 1/8 which one great-gradparent. That's not a few at all.

[Desaix DeBurgh]

How do you know you're 12.5% English? DNA?

Alright, this is my last post before I go jogging outside. One of my grandmothers was half English and half Scottish. So that is 25% divided by 2 which is 12.5 if I am not mistaken.

[Gooding]

English ancestors hail from: West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Somersetshire, Devon, Cornwall, Monmouthshire. My surnames are Goodin(g), Perkins, Cecil, Sturgill, Reed, Thorn(e), Garner, Dove, Daniels, Cornett, Coxen, Sherriff, Everage, Mosby, Smith, Woosley, Davis. Apparently, most of my English ancestry is from the southern and western areas of the country. Interestingly, Goodin seems to have been a Yorkshire name, originally ( figure that one out).

[Gooding]

After seeing that thread about the daughter and her long lost father.. eeerrggghh... time to bump this thread about Embracing English ancestry and England back up. I do agree that it's past time that Americans of English origin stand up and be counted and that we define ourselves rather than let a slew of others do so for us. England has a lot of noble personages in her history that we would do well to study and admire. Alfred of Wessex comes to mind, as does Richard Coeur de Lion, Beowulf, Robin Hood and King Arthur of legend, Canute the Great, William the Conqueror, Hengist and Horsa, Boudicca, Augustine of Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, James VI and I, Charles II, Lord Calvert, King George VI and a lot more.