English thread

Be you a jordi, a cockney, a zurr vrum zummerzet, a glaswegian, midlander, or a yorkshireman. Or anything else.

'cause my Irish blood can't resist the chance to kick an Englishman(or woman):)
SOMEBODY here must have some English ancestry?

I do. My family is from Birmingham. (Used to be from Northampton)

:)
just messin.

Tha dumban hundas ne magan beorcan!

wouldn't sumersaete be west Saxon?

Just north of Preston.
My last name is very English.

just kidding!

My Indian blood wants me to kick some Englishmen but I'll settle for kicking this thread

They brought the family curses to the southeastern US (and later Texas): wine, women, and song (later fine tuned to sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll). The alcoholic-womanizing founder of the Columbus Georgia Ledger who after fleeing to Texas, became the second president of the Republic of Texas (Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar), was my great-great-great (?) uncle.

My grandma is from Kettering, and my family currently lives in and around Northampton.

Boy, will the SCOTTISH lot jump on you if they see that :-)

Me? I'm from Lancashire originally but have been living in the South
of England for 20+ years. Came down for college originally, stayed
down as not only were there more jobs down here but I found a Southern
wife as well.

My mum was originally from London but moved up North after WWII as
she'd married a Northerner ... it all goes in cycles doesn't it?

Nihil

...is a Glasgow Kiss. :evilgrin:

the main British Island. So, you scots come aboard as well.

the Vikings as well. Lets go Medieval, shall we?

As I found out when I typed the wrong spelling ("Jordy") into the chat client.

The Geord-ette was quite offended. :)

--bkl

its geordie with an E

and i was offended as i am one....that lives in Canada now..lol

woops. Forgive me. madame.

I'm a concierge!

--bkl
Gut dag pa deg!
(The Producers)

Living in Essex. I'm from Sheffield originally.

Graduated in 1970, moved over here with the kids in 1980. I came from Goole and he came from Hull, we met in Sheffield and lived in the Walkley area. 95 bus took us down to the Union. I have great memories of Sheffield in the late 60s, (when it was a thriving steel town. Thatcher managed to ruin all that, and that's part of the reason we left).

DU's very own DS1 is our son. :hi:

I have some very fond memories of some student parties I went to round there. I grew up in the Hunters Bar area of town. :-)

Our American "founder" came from Wiltshire, but the bloodline goes back to Cornwall around AD 900, when the surname had nary a vowel.

Scatter me on Bodmin Moor!

:smoke:
dbt

that's on my father's side. On my mother's side, the ultimate origin is 16th Century Staffordshire.

(The rest is mainly Swedish.) I'm actually one of those Mayflower decendant types who could join the DAR if I wanted to. (Doesn't appeal to me though.) I don't know where my English side is from because they all came over before the Revolutionary War. Some relative probably has that info, but I never sought it out I suppose.

His mum, my granny, came from a seafaring family in the north of Devon, so I have family at Northam and Bideford. My granddad was at least partly raised in London but his family came from the south of Devon, Newton Abbott, Bovey Tracey, etc., where they were farmers and merchants.

At one time, an ancestor owned the distillery in Plymouth (that's in Devon) that makes Plymouth Gin, and another owned a brewery in London. I thought that was quite interesting since beer and gin & tonics are among the few things I like to drink. Talk about an inherited taste!

My mother's family is probably all British, too, but as yet I have no records on where they came from, except that her mother's mother was born in Dublin.

is a very famous sweets company in the UK I've heard. My Great-grandmother came from there in 1900. My dad's side came fom the UK in the 1600's.