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I know trhis should be in History, Ancestry, but the audience is a bit higher in CB.
I was having a discussion with my family yesterday about our ancestry. My father is very knowledgeable about Cypriot history and told me that we are possibly descendants of the Maronite Catholics who came to the Island 700 years ago. He also told me how the people of my village used to go to the mosque during the day and the secretly go to a church in the evening when they would not be seen.
What do you know of your ancestry?
I was having a discussion with my family yesterday about our ancestry. My father is very knowledgeable about Cypriot history and told me that we are possibly descendants of the Maronite Catholics who came to the Island 700 years ago. He also told me how the people of my village used to go to the mosque during the day and the secretly go to a church in the evening when they would not be seen.
What do you know of your ancestry?
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Well a bit more romantic than mine tigger. The majority of my ancestors were agricultural labourers and fisherman, although I do have a "lecturer of Chemistry"........a "captain of a sailing ship".........and a "travelling quack doctor". They have such wonderful christian names as Snowball, Canute, and Womble.....
My grandson is one quarter greek cypriot, his great grandparents live just outside Paphos.
My direct line via my DAD goes back to Robert de Broadhey who was admitted to the Chester Guild as a shoemaker in 1430, he had migrated from Roscommon in Ireland.
On my Mum's side the Lumbs from Ripponden were recorded in the parish Registers back to 1538 and so were likely there prior to that date.
The Normanatons married into the Lumbs and are in the same registers back to that time also.
The traffords on my Mum's Mum's side gop back to the 1600s in Sixhills in Lincolnshire, as do the Willeys and the Capps.
The Twidles also go back to the 1600s in lincolshire.
The Fords in Cheshire on my dad's side i only have to about 1710 in Pickmere.
The Spencers on my Dad's siode back to the 1700s in Appleton Cheshire.
My ex husbands family, Hawkes, was from Great Missenden Bucks, chairmakers back to the 1600s. the Sills family also come in there and i have them way way back as are the Puddiphatts of Great Missenden.
My direct line via my DAD goes back to Robert de Broadhey who was admitted to the Chester Guild as a shoemaker in 1430, he had migrated from Roscommon in Ireland.
On my Mum's side the Lumbs from Ripponden were recorded in the parish Registers back to 1538 and so were likely there prior to that date.
The Normanatons married into the Lumbs and are in the same registers back to that time also.
The traffords on my Mum's Mum's side gop back to the 1600s in Sixhills in Lincolnshire, as do the Willeys and the Capps.
The Twidles also go back to the 1600s in lincolshire.
The Fords in Cheshire on my dad's side i only have to about 1710 in Pickmere.
The Spencers on my Dad's siode back to the 1700s in Appleton Cheshire.
My ex husbands family, Hawkes, was from Great Missenden Bucks, chairmakers back to the 1600s. the Sills family also come in there and i have them way way back as are the Puddiphatts of Great Missenden.
About 20 years ago, someone on my mothers side ( the Italians) traced the family history back a good 500 years. And it is rumoured that a great grandfather -who may have been descended from a soldier who served in the British army- on my fathers English / Irish side, was disowned due to marrying a Cherokee woman. I have yet to be able to investigate this as many of my father's family are gone. It is quite possible as both my dad and his mother had the facial features that could link them to Native Americans..
I got rather stuck on my father's side, which is where the french comes into it. My great-grandfather changed his name (to my current one). Although he was born in Scotland his father was born in Ireland with the name of Vint. This was apparently a common name for the French Huguenots who fled to Ireland to escape persecution so I've no idea what their French name really was. The ancestors with Canute in their name are supposedly descended from Cnut but I have yet to satisfy myself on this.
I've got some Irish and some French, but mainly English. I've taken several lines back to the 1500s. I've got a serial bigamist, a murdered lover, a Chelsea Pensioner, a rags to riches story which sounds like it came out of a Catherine Cookson novel, an elopement, a legal battle in the Chancery division, a woman noted in the parish records as wh0re, a man who fathered 22 children with 3 different wives and a chap who drowned on his way home from coursing one day when drunk (his horse and greyhound snuffed it too).
