General Chat

Are you from Northamptonshire .........?

I remember a thread something like this last year, and there didn't seem to be many of us! Everyone else is getting their County mentioned and I felt left out!

My ancestors came from Wellingborough and Mears Ashby. See messages on English site. Rosemary.

Hi, I've got Northamptonshire blood running through my veins!! My Jones ancestors were in Northants from at least the late 1600s, the main branches leaving in the mid 1800s to go to London, and some to the USA. But if the earlier large families are anything to go by, I still must have many distant cousins in the area. My lot lived in Moulton and then Flore. Di.

Hi Janet I'm the Northants escapee - living in a barren Wiltshire. No-one else has admitted to belonging here, so you have more on your thread than I had!! Sue

Hi Janet No, sorry, I don't live in Northamptonshire, but my eldest daughter and her daughter do, so I have a visa to let me in occasionally. Does that help? Badger Bill Worthing

Badger Bill Well ...... I dunno ...... have you had your jabs.....!? Aw - go on then - you sound all right, really. We'll let you in! We'll class you as 'Northamptonshire by close association'! Sue Ahhhhhhh ...........! We'll lay claim to you, even if they don't want you! Janet

Janet Just to add support - my Key/Ratnett ancestors go back to Northampton in the early 1800s, and I'm looking forward to visiting the Record Office, hopefully to trace the missing marriage between the two families! Regards Helen

I'm not from Northants either, but very close, Milton Keynes, and my mothers family comes mainly from Deanshanger, Yardley Gobion etc, so I think I just about scrape in :) Someone mentioned visa's before which reminds me of my sons birth; he caught us by surprise in Cornwall very prematurely, and spent quite a while there in special care... when we left the nurses made him a "passport" which stated that he was born in Cornwall and could therefore cross the Tamar without impediment :-D

Yeah - you'll do, Paul .......!! It seems as if there aren't many from Northants on this site, but plenty of ancestors have moved away! By the way - have you still got the concrete cows in Milton Keynes? I think I remember them being stolen, but I'm not sure if you got them back? Janet

Sigh. yes the concrete cows are still here. For anyone who doesn't know... Milton Keynes is a "New Town" build in the north of Buckinghamshire starting in the late 60's early 70's, incorparating several small towns and villages in the process (Wolverton, Stony Stratford, Bletchley etc). Because we're a fairly "green" town, in a fairly rural area, some bright spark decided to build some "concrete cows" as kind of a symbol of that mix of countryside and town/city. Unfortunately this means that whenever anyone thinks of Milton Keynes, all they ever think about (apart from the grid road system/roundabouts and the shopping centre) are the *%$! concrete cows. They're still here, have survived havign one of their number stolen (but replaced), frequently being vandalised, and on one occasion some clever sod made a fibre glass bull and "mounted" it on one of them ;-)

I quite liked the concrete cows idea, actually - quite quirky! At the rate our village farms are disappearing/turning over to arable farming, we could do with some here to remind us all of what it used to be like!

You wou'dn't like them so much if you'd spent most of your life being mocked because of them lol

Hi janet, there's little old me as well,and like i said on the old thread i cant escape northampton so add me to the list kaz

Rosemary For a while I lived in Mears Ashby Road, Earls Barton - and our 'local' was the Griffins Head in Mears Ashby. Janet Thanks for including me - still struggling with Wiltshire!! Sue

Hi Kaz Wondered if you were still about! Why does everyone keep leaving Northamptonshire?! We're not THAT bad, are we?! Janet

Hi janet, No i dont think we are that bad , i'm still around just been busy trailing around taking photo's of churches and headstones,with rus and our youngest daughter(who if you ask her what she has been upto informs you that she's been grave robbing dread to think what her teachers make of it lol) bye for now kaz

Not me but my genes - Nortons from Yelvertoft. Hoping to get there to have a look some day soon!!

I'm am escapee from Wellingborough - living in Darlington. I still visit regularly though. Alli from Darlington nee Wellingborough

Welcome Allison and Maggie - two more escapees, eh?! I live about 9 miles from Wellingborough, and went to school there at Wellingborough Technical Grammar School - now Weavers School.