What is your familial country of origin?

My dad grew up in Cardiff and ironically went to the same catholic school (different years) as the famed Headmaster of the HS i attended in the states. So I'm apparently 60 - 65% Irish, 35 - 40 % Irish, with the remainder being English and like 1% German. So most of me went to war with the rest of me >.<

 

Thats better...a mixed up kid like the rest of us ..and catholic school too...see we have much in common....just dont advertise the Welsh bit too much...king of the welsh....you do realise most of wales is populated by sheep....and very tasty too...

Dont forget our rallying cry brother Englishman....who are we? Were the mongrals..
Its just an English thing...

 

Hey now, i take pride in my Irish and Welsh background. I also did not attend Catholic school - my dad did! I look more Irish then anything too....a gazillion freckles, pale skin, dark hair.

 

My son, brother...your dad was a catholic...once a catholic always a catholic...you have no say in the matter...Say 3 hail mary's and god bless the Irish. Your one of us now Mussolini...Welcome to the English clan. We just have to adress your dress sense. Richard is already measuring you for a bowler and brolly.

 

*wonders if he has to play the COOLER card in this instance*

I'm actually rather non-religious, truth be told.

 

Really! I didn't know that!

 

To go into my familial details that I was less specific about before:

Mom's Side: 50% Irish, 50% Austrian with a small bit of Italian (since my great great grandmother came from an area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now part of Northern Italy).

Dad's Side: Prussian or Hanoverian (I think; we came from a northern German state), a few Irish ancestors, and a couple from Holland.

 

Mum is from the British Channel Islands (Guernsey) of English stock (Cross family) with a little French thrown in (Morin family).

Dad's family came from Lebanon at the turn of the last century. My Great Grandmother was born in 1888 and I had the opportunity to interview her in the late 1970's. She told me that she had eloped on a camel when she was 15 with her husband and that they had gone to Beirut and from there to the USA. When I asked her what her father had done for work she said, in her broken English, "oh, he sold whiskey and hashish all across the desert."

That makes me 50% Lebanese, 37.5% English, 12.5% French and 100% American!

 

On my father's side, the family emigrated from Ipswich in East Anglia in 1630 primarily to avoid the nastier aspects of the coming English Civil War (to my everlasting embarrassment, they were Puritans). After settling in the American colonies, elements of Indian blood were added at various times.

On the maternal side, my family came from Lithuania a few years after the turn of the 20th. century. My mother was the first member of her family to be born in this country. Her side of the family is also reputed to have Swedish and Finnish blood although this is not certain.

 

:flag_USA_ww2: I love it

As for me, well rather boring - 100% Bavarian

Regards
Kruska

 

Choctaw Indian,Irish,Polish,Austrian

 

Didn't I tell you before?

 

What a bunch of mixed up individuals....Now I know why we're all on here then.

 

The math gods are not strong with this one


Just kidding.

It's amusing however to see the amount of diversity in background. When I first saw this thread I thought "That won't be very interesting..." well, I was wrong.




Cheers...

 

Miguel, maths is not an exact science as we all know...I think...why else would I keep getting 48.3 reocurring....and everyone else gets 48....its the reocurring bit that makes it a not exact science....just add a 0 to anything that perplexes your results....

You should also apply for a permanant position with the WMD search teams...if you cant find em..just add a zero to your equation and then at least you have a paper trail...

Its great to know ww2 forums have some clever folk amongst us....I'm still getting this reoucurring bit though...how do I get rid of it..

 

I am only one race, Muahaha.

 

Didn't everyone at one time or another? At least my folks fought alongside yours during the American Revolution. And were well paid for it, at least the Hessian ones that is....

 

My family comes from Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and France. They moved from Sweden to England to Canada under the name Spawn. I have some relatives in Nova Scotia have have the name Spawn but they are only two; they dont have any boys so the name will die with them. What a shame.

 

And i thought as a gooners fan there was no hope for you Muss, but you have redeemed yourself Rorkes Drift and a Welsh king

 

Wltd, Mussolini must never be king.....You have a duty to your English neighbours to throw out this claim and claim it for your rightfull self....Wltd for King of Wales....And me for King of Sea lions.