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Uggers lol I have Sullivans from Co Kerry! now wouldn't that be funny........

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The Scottish borders opened up around 1705 (cant remember exactly) so he was classed as British because he came over the boarder in 1740

edit: Great Britan actually started in 1707 when it joined with Scotland and the first ever GB parliment took place in November 1707

Scots to England.
some Irish to England ,
Welsh to England,
and anywhere else covered by Gt B.........

its called migrating,as its all part of Gt B ,,,

Only Irish so far...Mum and her family came over to London in 1928.

My Gran was a Brady and my Gran's Gran was a Murphy. Oh Joy!

Hi Uggers.
I was always aware that my gran's parents were born and married in Ireland, before coming over to Scotland, to work.
I have now found another 2 branches on my grandfather's side, from Ireland too.
Makes me feel a bit of a watered down Scot, now.
Doesn't help too much with the family tree, either.

Gail

LOL
Living in NZ Ugs we were all bloody immigrants
My fathers side are English Irish and Scots and My mothers are English Scots and Danes travelling via Australia(no convicts mind).
The thing I find amazing is my fathers Hewitts and my mother Hickmans were from villages about 20 miles apart and their decendants managed to get together 200 years and 12000 miles away

Loads of us have Irish:)

Rose, that would be funny:) If only I could do *anything* with them!

No Irish or Scottish as yet, but g-grandfather's family were Prussians!! They came from the bit that is now in Russia (Kaliningrad, formerly known as Koenigsburg).

I remember you telling me that when we met, Sheila. Have you had much luck tracing them?

My Gran always used to say her family originated from France, by the look of them all I would say either Italy or Spain. All dark hair and skin.
Must have been before 1700's as I have traced them back to Essex to that time.

Sadly, no! Kaliningrad actually featured in an episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are' - David Beddiel. It used to be a lovely city but is now full of remarkably ugly Soviet bloc type architecture. The lingo will be a problem and it's not somewhere I would visit for a holiday and do a bit of research on the side! I'm going to see if I can afford some research help!

'S funny -- I'm so much more English than the English. ;)

All of my grandparents were immigrants -- from England to Canada. And while their families came from disparate parts of England, they're England-born, of British nationality, as far back as the eye can see.

Well, except for that greatx4 grandfather in Leicestershire, who was born in Ireland c1771. I don't even want to think about that. Anybody got Morrisons in Ireland?

We immigrants are mingling here. My nieces' father was born in Angola, with Portuguese parents.

I suspect more Irish origins possibly, with names in Devon and Cornwall like Hill and Hoare, and Kenny in Northamptonshire. And who knows, maybe that gr-grfather really was an offshoot of the Viscount Monck line ... them being Irish peers, but English anyhow, of course.

My great-grandmother came from Dublin - though the family legend told of her origin being Galway; very kind of her to tell the 1901 census enumerator Dublin (the 1881 and 1891 unhelpfully stated Ireland).

Her brother was born in Galway, her sister was born in Co Fermanagh. Their parents married in Co Tyrone.
Great-grandmother married my English great-grandfather in Co Mayo.

And don't ask how many years those discoveries took!

As with another contributor with Irish ancestry, I believe, there is in my family also the story of Spanish ancestors, too.

Everyone from my grandparents backwards was an immigrant, except for one grandmother who was was born over here to immigrant parents.

It's very frustrating as I don't have enough information to track them back to their homelands. At the moment I'm just treading water and doing my best to find out where they've been and what they've been doing since they've been over here.

i was told there was a spanish connection in my tree but i haven't found one yet. My Dad had dark skin and it looked like his mum did too by pictures but i haven't come across any yet. There is a Surname Sice in my tree which sounds a bit foreign.

Thanks for yr replies - interesting to read:)