How 'british' Are You?

[237SJ]

This thread made me think of this (sorry Baldric :-) http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1459505.html Has anyone got a long lineage?

[jourdain2]

Basically what Prudie said - only she explained it better :)

[tonyav]

I seem to have a Celtic bump, but my dads ancestors came from the Stoke on Trent area !. Moms maiden name is Welsh though.

[jomifl]

I have a lineage longer than the royal family. As they come from Germany they will have been travelling faster with the Earth's spin so time will have gone slower for them.

[naomi24]

Genealogy is no indication of ‘Britishness’. Anjem Choudary is British – allegedly.

[david small]

At least to Tudor times.

[zebo]

What is the link supposed to link to, I get a Vulcan bomber piece?

[tonyav]

Read the comments on the link thread, zebo.

[Cloverjo]

My surname is a Latin word, but I am British as far as I can trace. I've only gone a few generations back, but I'm half Yorkshire half Welsh. I don't have the Celtic bump, though. I'd never heard of that before.

[Jackdaw33]

Just a note. The reason why the word British appears with a small b is that only the first character of a word can appear in capitals in the title box in AB. Because the OP began with ', all remaining letters in the same word automatically default to lower case.

[Jackdaw33]

...e.g.if you type AB it will appear as Ab. This only applies to the question title box.

[mikey4444]

I was born in London. My Dad was born in County Down in NI and both his Mum and Dad came from all over the island of Ireland for generations.

My Mum was an East Ender but her Dad could trace his origins back to Huguenots, that fled France for England in the early 1800's. Her Mum was a Devonian, again going back to at least the 1600's.

I think being "British" is a state of mind as much as a factual statement of ethnicity. I certainly think of myself British first and then English, but I can't say I am bothered overly much either way. There are more important things to be obsessed about !