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Originally Posted by Pinelli

My great grandfather came to Tasmania from the Jersey Islands, and I believe Philippe is his cousin. The Pinels first came to the Channel Islands with William the Conquerer, which makes me the second one to post here with that connection.

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I was born in Jersey and my dad grew up there. I asked him if he knew the name Pinel and said a family of that name lived a few doors down from him.

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Originally Posted by 85 county

did the online family tree thing, a bit pricy so not for long

apparently im a French Maori welsh scot German Russian Huguenot Chinese- Kiwi who has lived in Russia china Thailand and now Australia

My sons mother is tarter Greek Russian Mongol.


So what do i say to my son when he asks where do I come from??

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The Heinz Factory????
Andrew

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Originally Posted by Geoff

traced myself back to Robert the Bruce. scary thing is I also traced my wife back to Robert the Bruce as well so it turns out we are related.

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Interesting. My sister traced an ancestor to the court of Robert the Bruce. He supposedly saved the king from a bull, and was awarded land for his deeds.

I have one or two historical figures in the family tree. Dad's got it so I can't recall them all, but one was on the £5 note.

My maternal grandparents were East Africa hands, and although not famous themselves knew people like Karen Blixen. I can recall them being wary of the film Out of Africa on their way to see it, but they said that actually it was pretty close to the facts & how things were at that time.

My great uncle told a funny story of how he got permission to move back to Kenya to die, involving the fact that he'd grown up with the then President.
I wish I could have got them all to dictate their memoirs & stories of life there back then onto tape. :(

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Originally Posted by 85 county

did the online family tree thing, a bit pricy so not for long

apparently im a French Maori welsh scot German Russian Huguenot Chinese- Kiwi who has lived in Russia china Thailand and now Australia

My sons mother is tarter Greek Russian Mongol.


So what do i say to my son when he asks where do I come from??

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Might be easier to tell him he's adopted:p

Very distantly related to a famous e/states footballer of the sydney Swans.

Going back a few grand-fathers and we end up in a village called Troutbeck, where Thomas won World All Weights Championship of 1842. :-)

- Another ancestor of the village has the same name as myself...and the ghost of his Wife haunts their marital home which is still standing.

This thread comes at an interesting time, having just discovered and made First Contact with some of my previously unknown, relatives.
Lets just say that my late father was a ship's Captain, and according to my mother, lived up to the reputation of a sailor....:angel:
- Now I'm finding the evidence!:eek::p:eek:

Not my ancestor, but one of my wife's ancestors, left home in the UK as a ship's boy, and turned up a decade or two later in India, where he had enough money to buy a commission, marry the colonel's daughter, and set up a business buying horses from Australia (eventually leading to a daughter marrying an Australian). The original source of the money is unclear, family speculation suggesting either piracy or slave trading!

John

Turns out I am a descendent of the bloke that had a fruit barrow in George St Sydney . :D:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by superquag

Very distantly related to a famous e/states footballer of the sydney Swans.

Going back a few grand-fathers and we end up in a village called Troutbeck, where Thomas won World All Weights Championship of 1842. :-)

- Another ancestor of the village has the same name as myself...and the ghost of his Wife haunts their marital home which is still standing.

This thread comes at an interesting time, having just discovered and made First Contact with some of my previously unknown, relatives.
Lets just say that my late father was a ship's Captain, and according to my mother, lived up to the reputation of a sailor....:angel:
- Now I'm finding the evidence!:eek::p:eek:

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https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...14/03/1010.jpg

From what I thought the reputation of a sailor was ...................... I would have thought that you'd be struggling to find any evidence. :p

My history comes from the Murry of tullibardine and the Manx for the isle of Man.

We are the ones that owned most industry there at one stage and also why they didn't arrest you for killing a Scotsman. My grand mother looked exactly like the portrait of the last witch burnt at the stake there.

So my family were war mongers through history. They also lost everything to gambling:angel:.