Your Ancestry

Do you know the history of your family name, crest or origin?

If so, please share without giving too much info away about your identity

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I've got some very questionable relatives, so I'd prefer to let sleeping dogs lie......

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Deleted, as the description takes you straight to it!

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Think mine were all sent to Australia,

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Never really bothered about ancestry, it solves nowt in the here and now, and doesn't offer any present day perspective either.

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On my mother's side not a lot prior to about 1890. On my father's side they were known as far as the 1745 rebellion.

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No. Born in England. Both parents English. Have no aunts, uncles or cousins and not really interested in finding out anything else about them.

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I know some about mine. On my fathers side the family originated in north Wales area and on my mothers side they came from Cornwall.

On bit of family history I was told but how true it is???? I don't know

the last highwayman to be hung in Cornwall at Launceston (the old Cornish capital) was a man called "mad Mick " who was supposed to be some relative or other way back in the past

I do know a lot more but not to put on here

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Genealogy is hobby of mine, Minx, so, yes, I know a lot about my ancestors - have a thread about it here:-

https://www.over50sforum.com/showthr...ight=genealogy