Cinnamon Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I recenlty found out that not only did my 2 Grandmothers live on the same street as girls,but they had the same surname Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 That's amazing Cinnamon! Were they related? I am a Surrey girl through and through. My parents are both Surrey people (albeit South London!) and 3 grandparents were Surrey people with the 4th being from Wembley. I have never lived anywhere else apart from 3 years in Bristol and a year in Cambridge during university years. I am tracing Russell, Weaver, Sheppard, Worsell, Canning, Nye and Bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 My mum's parents were called May and Fred. My dad's parents were also called May and Fred. Presumably pretty common names back then, but still quite a coincidence . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Born in Cambridge, lived in Cambs for most of my life with brief interludes in Oxford, Durham and Irvine. I have short vowels for northern places - when I trained as a teacher I recall a girl not understanding with my long A in graph paper!! Mum comes from Essex although both her parents were from the North East and grannie's origins are Norwegian. I don't really know where my dad's family originated Kent commuter belt for his childhood and before then he can trace some welsh and scottish roots. For me this is home - teaching just outside cambridge this is the first place I have ever worked where people sound a lot like me!! In Bedford they sounded much more London and in the North East - well they sounded Geordie to me!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Hope you don't think that I am hijacking the thread but I do have a related story which also has a coincidence in it. On a previous post I explained that I was from Sheffield and OH from Rochdale but brought up in Bath. We met at Canterbury at Uni. Our grandfathers knew each other and used to drink in the same pub in Lincolnshire on a Saturday before my grandfather had to go and make sure that the local hunt didn't destroy his boss's farm! I think that this is one of the biggest coincidences that I have ever come across. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 How amazing! I love things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Wow, some interesting heritage on here! Some of my ancestry is Suffolk, Kent, Berkshire, Middlesex, London (grandad was a true cockney, although he spoke "posh" and nothing like the Mary Poppins version - he could if he wanted to make us laugh though!), Irish, French and perhaps the Isle of Wight. I was born in Surrey lived there for half my life, although a lot of time was spent in the New Forest with my grandparents during the term holidays. I consider myself a Wessex girl! The only thing irritating is that I don't have an accent and would dearly love to have a country burr when I speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Amazing thread! I was born in South East London, where generations from both sides of my family go back for at least 200 years. I moved to Cambridgeshire when I was 2, so my parents and (much) older brothers all still retain their "sarf east lundun" accents. I don't. Went back to South East London to do teacher training (yes, right back to where I was born ) for 4 years, then back to Cambs. 4 years later, relocated with OH's job to Wiltshire, which has truly become home. I love it here, and although I am proud of my London heritage, I say I am from Cambs, but belong to Wiltshire! Also wonder if any of us are related? Names from my family are all very strange: Wills, Henn (yes, really ), Slaughter, Savory and Sartain. Regarding it being a small world: My forum "sister" Emma, (TheHerd123) and I discovered that the lady who did her nails in Birmingham was my husband's cousin's wife! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirl Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Another Essex girl here. I've just taken off my white stilletos to have a break from handbag dancing My mum is Irish though and my dad was born in Essex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I'm a little Welshie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 maybe when the kids are off hand I will move from Cambridgeshire to a place where I can have more land, it's waaaaay too expensive here. It's just home though names in my family... going back... Bailey, White, anyone from cambs with those names?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Me and sis from Wales, Mum and Dad from L'Pool grandparents from L'Pool and Wales, Cousins in America I don't know anyone with my last name, it's very unusual...sort of x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
