I've spent many years tracing my family tree back to the 1500's, concentrating on the male family line, but have very recently discovered that I am 1/8th Welsh. My maternal grandmother who died in 1968 was Gladys Jones who we know was born in London, but its only this week that we've found that her father (my great-grandfather) was Morgan Jones who was born in Tre Herbert (or Treherbert) as its now shown on maps. My great grandmother came from Worcestershire. Getting back the next generation is likely to prove much more difficult. How many Morgan Jones lived in Glamorgan in the late 1800's?

So now I'll have to stop being rude to Lesley and Bucc's!

It's interesting isn't it.

My paternal side come from East Anglia (Suffolk/Essex border) but my Granfather moved to Wales where he married a Welsh lady, so I have Welsh in me too.
Now my Mum was born in Glasgow, which sort of made her Scots, and Mrs E is a Scot, so my kids are really mixed up!!

The welsh get everywhere!

There's no answer to that!

I have a very healthy mix... on my mother's side I am related to Sir Geoffrey de Mowbray (of Melton Mowbray) but on my father's side I apparently go back to Australian convicts....!!

So that's why your avatar looks like a crooked pork pie!

How do you know a pork pie is crooked? Isn;t it innocent until proven guilty?


Mum's family were servants at our local stately home going back to the early 18th centtury. We're having our daughter's wedding there as a form of revenge! On Dad's side, his mother was born in the Midlands of scottish parents, so that makes me a what, an eigth scots (only just got in from work so a bit too tired for sums). They rejoiced in the name of Hossack, which in the subtle way schoolboy minds work was always adulterated to Hossmuck.

You are NOT a gentleman, Wobbin!

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I'm not entirely sure just how much Welsh there is in me, but it's more than 7/8, it would seem. My grandparents were a Pritchard (naturally), a Thomas, and two different Williamses; all I'm missing is a Jones!

I am polish, german, cheerokee?, and Irish, and Scottish, and what whatever other ish you can think of. Also Austrian.

My husband can trace his family back to the Domesday Book. There is a village just outside Tavistock that bears the family name, with its own pub that displays the family coat of arms and a church where many family members are buried.

Me, I have little or no chance of tracing my family tree. My maiden name was Brown, my mother's maiden name was Jones and her mother's maiden name was Brown. And both my father's and mother's families came from London!

What I dont quite get is the Arabic percentage?

I spent some time tracing my family tree. I 've hit a bit of a brick wall after three generations. I had to stop for a bit, far to busy with productions. Most of my ancestors come from the Handsworth and Aston areas of Birmingham and were involved in foundary work.

Having been told many years ago that someone welsh married someone irish in our family tree - I have found nothing of the sort!!.

I am 4/8 London, 2/8 Hertfordshire and 2/8 Suffolk - and I have Smiths in my family tree.

I have found no-one rich or titled - nor any convicts either!

So much for 20 years research! - I wionder what the next 20 years research will bring?



Jan

That would be half, quarter and quarter then!!!

Primarily I?m mainly Celtic, although the Cowens are originally from the Scottish/English boarder region. So primarily Geordies, who allrgadly helped to stop the Jacobites, at Cowens crossing from getting past the Tyne river. So they had to skirt Tyneside, as the gates of Newcastle were closed tothe invaders. {[One possible explanation of the origin of ?Geordie? (followers of king George] besides the Stevenson Geordie Lamp & others} Making there way towards London via Cumberland. There coat of arms has a fleur de lye on a red sash, above a red diagonal cross [red being the colour of military].
My granny was a Stewart Royal, in the Scots Royal clanblood line. 9Emglish/French)
The McCabes were ?Galloglasses [foreign mercenaries] who went from Scotland to Ireland & were known as the helmeted or hooded ones, there signature was the double headed axe they carried. The coat of arms is 3 salmon, 2 at the top above a white water line & 1 underneath on a green background, so they were probably poachers on the side.
I can remember my dad, showing me a rolled scroll, with a red seal & in the centre was impressed a design of three crossed fishes & the tails formed an ?M?. I was only a kid at the time & can?t remember the significance of it, but he seemed to cherish it. (Could it have been the deeds to a long lost estate in county Cavan or even just a summons, but I could never work out if & why a possible family ring was used on the seal?]

Well I am descended from Jones, Evans, Jenkins and Morgans so I guess that makes me pretty much Welsh.
Allegedly we are related to Henry Morgan a Pirate who became acting governor of Jamaica, but I don't know if that's true.

The closest to Welsh in my family, is my Uncle Bobby McCabe. Who married Nancy the daughter of a Llanelly Publican, the one near the railway line & next to the Rugby field. [But being Wales there would be a pub near every rugby ground] He had an engineering company, I believe they had a son but I know nothing about them.

I found out that I am 1/10th cannibal....




Just Kidding... any way...




Kidding

I'm an 1/8 Scottish (great grandfather William Boyd from Aberdeen) and a 1/16 Welsh (2x great grandmother Harriet Morgans from Cwmystwyth)

I'm about a quarter German by birth, but I do have a fully-developed sense of humour.

A+

Is that your blood group Bobcat? or your DESTINY?

I guess you already know the score on that dogs.

B

Half English and half Welsh - English for football, Welsh for rugby!

Half Scottish, Quarter English, 8th Irish, 8th French

And probably something else thrown in there just to confuse me

gosh I feel quite boring compared to the rest of you. (also, lots of people on here are welsh in origin, perhaps there is a connection between being welsh and being incredibly dedicated to amateur theatre? )

I AM a Smith, so I don't have much chance on my dad's side! My family for the past few generations have all been Mancunian, my mum is from Wythenshawe and my dad from Urmston. My grandad on my mum's side is from Ardwick in Manchester but he is half welsh, my great grandmother (who i look exactly like) was welsh, called Helen Conway from Conwy. We can't go very far back there either without a lot of effort because my great grandfather Houghton was illegitimate, we know that his father was the pub landlord of a pub in Ardwick but we don't know who he actually is or what his name was (Houghton comes from his mother). My auntie informs me that on the Smith side we were all servants who died at around 30 ish of TB. There is Irish and more Welsh and I think some Scottish in there too, and I'm sure I remember my grandma Houghton telling me her grandfather was Scottish. So i'm not very exotic really lol!