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What’s your ancestry DNA?
« on: January 28, 2018, 10:55:48 AM »
Just saw the add on tv and began to wonder if we know our heritage which could make for some great campfire conversation.

From research to date, it turns out I’m not actually from Mordor or the Shire, in actual fact running through these veins is Scottish, Irish and French blood. So depending on the day, you could get a different personality and explains why I like dancing around a campfire🕺🕺🕺

My Scottish ancestors came by boat into Newcastle and settled in the hunter and New England region and one of them married into a French Jeweller family in Sydney before settling around Southern NSW/Corryong/Beechworth area.
My Irish ancestors were shipped by boat to van diemans land and became constabulary as a result of good behaviour and standing before moving to Goulbourn and the southern highlands.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2018, 11:53:49 AM »
I started as a pencil sketch  ;D
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2018, 12:05:58 PM »
Quote from: Charlie Brown on January 28, 2018, 11:53:49 AM
I started as a pencil sketch  ;D

...and grew to a smudge??   ;D ;D
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2018, 01:01:49 PM »
few billion years ago I was related to Ug the caveman
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2018, 02:24:51 PM »
Quote from: Bird on January 28, 2018, 01:01:49 PM
few billion years ago I was related to Ug the caveman

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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2018, 02:35:45 PM »
l have searched my name to late 1700 in Kent in England . l found a bloke of the same name that worked as a Jobbing Gardener . Then gave up as nothing much has changed    :cheers:
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2018, 03:36:35 PM »
Quote from: speewa158 on January 28, 2018, 02:35:45 PM
l have searched my name to late 1700 in Kent in England . l found a bloke of the same name that worked as a Jobbing Gardener . Then gave up as nothing much has changed    :cheers:
My fathers side of the family, and myself come from Kent. We had about 5 or 6 pubs in the family back at the turn of the century, till they all went to other hands by around 1950.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2018, 03:58:45 PM »
Quote from: Troopy_03 on January 28, 2018, 03:36:35 PM
My fathers side of the family, and myself come from Kent. We had about 5 or 6 pubs in the family back at the turn of the century, till they all went to other hands by around 1950.
My bloke probably was chucked out of all of them at some stage or another      :-[ :cheers:
Having an Ale at Mrs Wiggins Tavern & Ale house      :cup:     :cheers:
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2018, 04:24:20 PM »
We landed here in 1788 from England. I’ll let ya decide which end of the spectrum. New life or convicts  ;D
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2018, 04:30:30 PM »
Quote from: speewa158 on January 28, 2018, 02:35:45 PM
l have searched my name to late 1700 in Kent in England.....

Quote from: Troopy_03 on January 28, 2018, 03:36:35 PM
My fathers side of the family, and myself come from Kent....

My paternal grandfather was from Deal, Kent....
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2018, 04:34:15 PM »
OMG - they're triplets!!! :o
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2018, 04:35:44 PM »
Quote from: SJindustries on January 28, 2018, 04:24:20 PM
We landed here in 1788 from England. I’ll let ya decide which end of the spectrum. New life or convicts  ;D

Some of Mrs F's hark back to then as well, from both sides! - one convict & one Marine guard ::)
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2018, 07:41:51 PM »
Not what you want to hear
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2018, 08:04:23 PM »
My missus is right into the geaneology stuff, good cure for insomnia if you ask me.....but
She wanted this DNA kit for her birthday, so no problem she bought it for herself, yay job done ;D

When it got here she made me spit into the little tube until i had enough to get the level past the black line, apparently she had already covertly done the rest of the family.......... :angel:
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2018, 08:08:53 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on January 28, 2018, 04:30:30 PM
My paternal grandfather was from Deal, Kent....
Family Reunion Catch Up     :cup:  ( bring Grog )        :cheers:  . Hang on a bit  why the exudes from Kent        ???                        :cheers:
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2018, 08:20:41 PM »
All this talk about Kent, my fathers mother (Cleggett),  came from Maidstone, Kent in 1848 to South Australia.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2018, 08:25:09 PM »
Quote from: SJindustries on January 28, 2018, 04:24:20 PM
We landed here in 1788 from England. I’ll let ya decide which end of the spectrum. New life or convicts  ;D

Mine arrived on the same boat trip, I'm assured he had a bunk on the lower decks.
He happened to be a black African, and married the daughter of another convict couple a black negro American and his Irish wife.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2018, 10:04:39 PM »
I got into the family tree a few years ago to try and pull all the bits and pieces together before it was lost.  I found it was quite interesting. Also uncovered a few scandles.
Most of mine arrived early to mid 1800’s with one 1 the late 1800’s
1 Welch for the surname.  A bit over half were poor Irish the rest were English with one token convict who married someone we can’t track, likely a convict.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2018, 11:02:14 PM »
After being Medically Retired I did get into the Family Tree thing a bit.  Gave me something to do mainly.  Anyhow trace it all back on my side and pretty boring really, all bloody whinging poms with the odd convict (not first fleeters) thrown into the mix.  The Family name I can trace back to Staffordshire and my Grandfather coming out from Sunderland to Australia.  On my Mums side, it as from Warwickshire.  But I have Ancestors scattered over most of England.

In Australia, Dad's side is mainly New South Wales, while Mum's side is a mix of South Australia but mostly New South Wales.  Pretty boring really.

My wife is a bit more mixed.  Again predominately English with a little branch of German and Danish and again arriving in Australia via South Australia and mainly New South Wales. 

Last year our son and daughter in law had our first grandchild so I bought my boy a dna kit.  No real surprises.  English with the usual Viking mix and a trace of german.
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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2018, 12:01:10 AM »
Quote from: GeoffA on January 28, 2018, 04:30:30 PM
My paternal grandfather was from Deal, Kent....

Quote from: Rob Mac on January 28, 2018, 08:20:41 PM
All this talk about Kent, my fathers mother (Cleggett),  came from Maidstone, Kent in 1848 to South Australia.


I was Born in Ramsgate, Dad in Gillingham, we lived in Maidstone for a bit (apparently) Grandad was born in India, but moved to England at the age of 26, and was a copper in Maidstone (I think). The pubs were all over the place.

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Re: What’s your ancestry DNA?
« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2018, 12:25:50 AM »
Dads side Great greats trace back to "  Winchelsea "   in Sussex SE England, He was a Shipwright  .. Transported for stealing shoes and potatoes along with his  nephew .. Ended up being free'd then worked on the ships back to England married and returned to Australia working as a shipwright on  whaling ships ..
Moms side Great greats trace back to "  Prussia " Germany  and were timber getters [ Forrest people ], Came to Australia for a new life in a new world after the Franco Prussian  wars before  WW1 .

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« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2018, 07:36:02 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2018, 08:55:08 AM »
From many reports I am also from Kent.
I get called that a fair bit but for some reason they spell it slightly different. They use C for the first letter and have a different vowel.
But Kent plus some Irish and Scottish and touch of Wales plus other Brit areas is my ancestry. My folks got around a lot but apparently weren't Gypsy's.
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