Whereabouts in England do you come from?

**~~Peasant~~** · 09-21-2010, 02:39 PM

Forgot to post what I know of my ancestry, which has been mainly Middlesbrough and North Ormsbey upto now. I havn't got far back yet for most though. One of the Irish surnames has came through Liverpool, and I have traced a my nanas fathers direct male line back to about 1820 to a village near Northallerton, North Yorkshire. All that line seems to have about 10+ kids per generation. Maybe as low as 5 for one of them.

I'm probs quite close related to a lot of people around here without knowing it D:

**~~Nglund~~** · 09-21-2010, 10:24 PM

Gloucestershire and Northumberland

EDIT. WUSPIE! AND SURREY! I need to vote again!!!!

**~~Beorn~~** · 09-22-2010, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by Osweo

As long as you tell em it's bullshit too!

Of course.

Moi? Unthinkamable. I await your answer. Sorbia. Lausitz, Lusatia, Luzhitsk...

I can't answer it. On two points:

1) I don't know enough to formulate a stance and,

2) I wouldn't respond even if I did know simply because it is not my place to interfere.

Sure, and that's why I mentioned the important demic aspect too, which you conspicuously didn't quote...

I didn't highlight it simply because to base what belongs to whom upon the 'demic aspect', England would be larger than it is today. We'd still have Monmouthshire for one.

**~~Osweo~~** · 09-22-2010, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by Brennus

I can't answer it. On two points:

1) I don't know enough to formulate a stance and,

2) I wouldn't respond even if I did know simply because it is not my place to interfere.

Understanding without means of analogy and wider knowledge is a waste of time, in many ways. To come out with rigid dogma on nationhood without a broader awareness of the possibilities inherent in the term doesn't inspire confidence in one's utterences.

To get our heads around Cornwall, we ought to have a few different 'models' in mind. Lusatia is at least interesting from this point of view, and certainly worthy of more than a passing glance.

I didn't highlight it simply because to base what belongs to whom upon the 'demic aspect', England would be larger than it is today. We'd still have Monmouthshire for one.

Monmouthshire's Englishness largely rested on its inclusion within the judges' circuit of Oxfordshire, I think. A matter of pure convenience, really. Any Act of Parliament referring to Wales from the time of its union to the birth of its Assembly always included this county, though. I'm not too familiar with Gwent, but I think Cornwall's experience of English settlement is far older.

**Liffrea** · 10-07-2010, 11:04 PM

I was born in Derby, so was my mother and father, after that most of my father’s side are Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, pretty concentrated along the Trent. My mothers folks seem solid Derbyshire (bar some Scots-Irish) going back at least to the 1760’s in north Derbyshire and probably further given her maiden name. Some elements hail from Shoreditch, Islington, Salford, Sheerness, Birmingham, Coventry.

**~~Treffie~~** · 10-07-2010, 11:12 PM

I have ancestry in these counties

and the last time I looked, Cornwall was definitely a part of England

**SaxonCeorl** · 12-10-2010, 05:21 AM

I've English blood from Wiltshire on my dad's side and East Anglia on my mom's side. I think the biggest reason I identify so much with my English heritage is because I've got it coming from both sides, my paternal side (and, hence, my surname) is English, and I get my looks from my maternal grandmother, whose ancestors were English. So, I look English, have an English name, and have ancestors from both the Angles and the Saxons.