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[miffy]

Having found the familyhistory thread got me thinking

How do you define where you are from? for example, I was born in cornwall, trace umpteen generations on my fathers side to cornwall. I consider myself cornish. BUT I lived all over the place (father in RAF) my mum was a londoner and her family for 2 generations were londoners (born and raised) so am I also a londoner.

Down here folk can be a bit touchy about who calls themselves cornish.

who do you think you are??? how would you define yourself

[bronze]

I think its about where you were brought up. I hate people who get precious like they do in your example of Cornwall.

It happens here too. DH was born in a house in Norfolk and has lived here over 80% of his life but because hes not millionth generation they say hes not a Norfolk boy. Where do they think hes from then?

I go with home is where you think of as home.

[stoice]

I'm a true essex girl! Not jokes please, yawn, they're getting old now.

Both my parents from essex, all my grandparents, in fact the furthest back I've looked (Grandfathers great grandfather was from essex although he married a girl from Cambridgeshire)

 

So I guess I'm truly from essex. Now just gonna go daaan lakeside in my escort turbo with fluffy dice followed by some dancing round my handbag in my white stilettos.

[Mutrix Farmers]

Well to qualify to play for the England Cricket Team it depends on where your grandparents were born!!

 

I was born on the east side of the Medway so that makes me a Maid of Kent but my brother was born on the west side so he's a Kentish Man! Confused? Me too!

[chickencam]

I was born in Nottinghamshire lived there until I was 4 then lived for 4 years in West Yorkshire then spent the next 10 years in North Wales lived in Chester for a year then moved to Cheltenham 21 years ago. I have lived for over half my life in Cheltenham but would not consider myself as local, and this is a very cosmopolitan town with having GCHQ here so you meet people from all over the place . Confused I am

[Cinnamon]

I'm a heinz57

 

But I think of myself as an Oxfordshire girl,despite my parents & Grandparents coming from all over the place.

I was born in the town I still live in, & I suspect I will be in this area forever unless my Greek dreams come to fruition.

[Tiggy]

born in portsmouth, moved to Birmingam age 7 moved to Blackcountry age 18 (Im 48 now & still considered a Brummie by locals) Dads family were Brummies right back to the 1800s & Moms lot are Irish, so take your pick

[Mrs Frugal]

I was born in Peterborough, Cambs and moved to Sunny Stamford when I started training as a nurse and that's when I met LSH and I've been here ever since. I think of myself as a Lincolnshire girl as I've lived here the longest and love it here. My family are still in Peterborough and we've traced our roots back through a few generations down my Mum's side of the family who were farm workers and brick makers, all from the area around Peterborough.

[Egluntyne]

Gosh....don't know where to start........how long have you got?

[Seagazer]

We've had this discussion at home because my granddad was born in Dublin but to English parents, his Dad was in the army there. Would this make him Irish? I don't know, I don't think so.

 

I'm unfortunately just from South East London/Kent. I don't think you can count a year living in Norfolk when I was 16!

 

Great grandparents were from all over the place.

[ali-s]

I was born in Nottinghamshire and lived there until I was 24. Moved to Lincolnshire for a couple of years and then the big move up here nearly 18 years ago. I will always be a Nottinghamshire girl

 

Son Jack who was born in Lincoln says he is English and he speaks with an English accent even though he was only 4 months old when we moved here. Daughter Natalie was born here and is proud to be Scottish. she speaks the local dialect, sometimes even now I have no idea what she is saying

 

OH, Andy was born in London, Up until he joined the RAF he spent most of his life in Cumbria. We met when he was stationed near Peterborough.

[Janty]

I have lived in Suffolk longer than I have lived anywhere else and I love it here. However, I open my mouth and I am instantly Liverpudlian. I have lived in Liverpool, Cheshire, Wales, Alsager, London and Suffolk.

[Sheilaz]

Gosh....don't know where to start........how long have you got?

...ages, do tell....

[little chickadee]

I'm Suffolk through and through. I was born here and lived here until I moved to uni, then lived in Brum for 10 yrs and then moved back.

 

My husband has Scottish parents but was brought up in Stockport, then lived in the south and Brum before moving to suffolk. I think he thinks of himself as being a Suffolk person now as he feels so at home here. We found out just after we moved that his Great Grandfather was from a village a few miles away from us, so his Suffolk roots actually go back futher than mine.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I was born "within the sound of Bow bells" but brought up in Hertfordshire and regard myself as Home Counties if I'm feeling posh or otherwise an "ertfordshire edgehog"

At university I was called a Sassenach.

I married and moved to Cumbria last year. My husband mocks me (gently) calling me a Cockney from Darn Sarf and the locals call us southerners "Outcomers"

[jlo]

I still consider myself to be a Sheffield lass even though I left there when I was 18 and I am now 42! I don't have a particular accent although I use short vowels. My OH was born in Rochdale and lived there till he was 3 but, for some reason, he is cross when I tell anyone where he was born. He considers himself a West Country boy having been brought up in Bath (He would say Barth and I just sound far too posh and unnatural if I try and say it like that! )

 

We have now been in Basingstoke for nearly twenty years and I am very fond of the place and do defend it quite strongly. I appreciate it has a bit of a boring reputation but we have always found the people to be very friendly.

 

So - in answer to the orignal question....haven't got a clue!!

[Looney]

Born 12 miles from Lincoln and lived in the next village until I was 19. Since then I've lived in West Yorkshire ( ), London ( ) and now live in Cambridgeshire.

 

Consider myself to be a Lincolnshire Yellowbelly and proud of it!!

[Yorkshire Pudding]

We're a well-travelled lot, aren't we?

 

I was born in Surrey (inside the M25 but the part that is postally referred to as Surrey, at any rate), moved to Kent for a few formative years, then returned to the same area of Greater London until I left home at 18.

 

I grew up using long vowels at school and short ones at home, as both my parents are from Newcastle-upon-Tyne; I never felt 'local' to the south-east despite having been born there - all my extended family were based around Newcastle and still are.

 

After a mobile few years at university (my course included several work placements so I went from Nottingham to Cambridge to Nottingham to Harpenden to Nottingham to Rutland and back to Nottingham, then on to Leeds for postgrad study!), having met in Cambridge my Brummie OH and I settled in Leeds in 1991 and this is now home. Our sons would qualify to play for Yorkshire if that rule still applied, they have local accents and consider themselves to be Tykes. My parents now live here too, so apart from my sister still inside the M25, we are a Yorkshire family with Newcastle connections.

 

So I don't know where I'm from - I'm a Surrey-born child of expat Geordies and adopted Tyke.

[Sheilaz]

........ Harpenden......

 

My home town, both of my parents were born there too.

I've been adventurous moving too; 4 miles away when married, back to Harpenden, and then the big move to here, 5 miles away.

 

I love family trees, not just my own, but most of the research on mine has already been done.

My Mother's was traced back to Kent landowners from centuries back, but the farms no longer exist & male line died out with my Grandfather as neither he nor his brothers had sons.

Fascinating stuff though, spent a family holiday when I was 13 visiting Kent graveyards. It was helped by the name not being very common (though not rare).

 

So, although the name is in patches in other parts of the country (& Sweden according to that Website!) from distant branches of the family, there won't be many from the distant Kent line. Might be fun to contact them though. Although I don't think they could add to my info...it's hard to get further back than first records...but maybe I'd help someone link theirs.

 

I'm really keen to see if any Omleteers are unknowingly related. Of course, we don't want to post personal details, but could give clues such as Gillows of Kent, since that isn't my name now...

...any others have this link? Or want to try another unidentifying one?

[Cate in NZ]

I was born in Wimbledon although my parents moved to the North West when I was 3 and I grew up in Cheshire & Lancashire (except for an 18 month "blip" in Wales ). At 21 I moved to central London, met hubby who's a Londoner through and through, and that was it. We lived in various parts of SE London, moving eventually to Dartford which is in fact NW Kent, but within the M25.

It's easy for me now though, over here if anyone asks where I'm from I just tend to say I'm English, and that's generally enough. If pressed further I give the close to London answer, after all everyone's heard of London, most round here don't know Dartford....unless they're fellow ex-pats of course

[redhotchick]

The short answer - Liverpool, and one which is readily accepted by people I meet from beyond the region, but not always by people from Liverpool. It's because my accent isn't very strong but strong enough to be identifiable.

I was born in Lancashire and my parent's house hasn't moved, but the boundaries have

I now live in Melling, round the corner from where I grew up, and have done most of my life, apart from a ten year period when I spent most of my time in Preston. I've spent a year living in Coventry and a year and a bit in Trinidad. I've worked in Liverpool for 20 years.

 

I really think of myself as a Melling girl, but say Liverpool because people can get a handle on the location more easily.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Egluntine, I think our "identities" would both be long and complicated ones .

 

Anyway, here goes with mine:

 

born in England to Australian mother and Swiss father

adopted by a Scots/Welsh father (born in Japan) and English mother

lived in various Far East countries till age 7

moved to boarding school in Scotland

lived in Scotland ever since

 

I think of myself as a Scot, purely because I've lived here longer than anywhere else. I still get "accused" of being English by Scots, but English people think I sound Scottish.

 

Oh, and apparently there's Polish blood somewhere in my natural family .

[rusky123]

Lol, Aint "Ooops, word censored!"ody Here, think of the gene pool. I have 3 fab kiddies, I am latvian welsh, DH is italian, grandparents are cornish, yorkshire,russian and italian/french, a good mix I think.

[BarbaraJ]

Very boring here born in bexley kent mum born in bexley and dad. Moved here when i was 18mths old still here lol

[Cooks]

right I'll have a go....

 

My Mum - Cambridge girl through and through mum and dad both raised here also.

Dad - hmm tricky, born Birmingham, lived for short while in Wales then Somerset and then Norfolk Whilst growing up, I have no idea where either of his parents were born they were not on the scene really.

I have never lived anywhere other than Cambridge or it's villages around it so I am a Cambridge gal, I dont talk posh like some people think I should, I get asked if I am from London when people meet me on holidays, so guess my accent from that