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I am a a fair distance from the Isle of Man (am only second generation b. England) whilst OH - well his lot have been in Hampshire for nigh on 400 years that I know of and we are about 8 miles from the beginning of his tree!

I was born in Edgware Middlesex
now live in North Wales .
Fathers family came from Hertfordshire
and mums family came from Durham.
Hazelx

I live in the same city,but just 3 miles from where I was born and brought up.

My Dad moved from Derbyshire to Yorkshire in 1912 but he was the only one to move.
All my paternal side I can trace back to smal villages in North East Derbyshire right back to early 1600's.

Mum's side I only know she was born in Sheffield and brought to Leeds to be adopted.

Interesting thread.

Sue

Hi Sally,
I suppose you could say I'm a bit of a mongrel really lol!
My family having come from various places in Britain.
Although Manchester born and bred but, now living in the capital I was very surprised to discover that dad's family have originated from London at least since the early 1700's.
After that the lines become quite diverse, with ancestors coming from Shropshire, Kent, Suffolk, Staffordshire and Bristol, as well as Preston and Liverpool.
One great grandfather was a BS born in Calais but dying in Manchester.

So over all, I imagine I am now living closest to where fathers ancestors originated initially.

What an interesting thread,
On my maternal side,back to 1650s ,only about 20 miles away in Norfolk.On both my mums,dad and mums side,they havent moved far.On my dads side,Shropshire ,since1850s,still there as far as KI know.
Kay

i live 20 minutes slow walk

from where i was brought up

most of my kids live only minutes away

You have raised a very interesting topic! I have been researching my own tree and my husband's. He is from London, and I am from Cumbria. Oddly enough, my research has shown that his gg grandparents and my gg grandparents were from the same area - Sunderland - and both gg grandfathers worked in the ship yards there. I know there are likely to be many similar tales, but I found this quite surprising!

Yes I know that feeling!
When I was 19 I had a boyfreind who moved away to near marlow Bucks. I used to go up and stay for weekends Walk along by the river and visit many a local pub.
Found out loads of my relis lived in that area whilst putting my tree together.
Quite a mixture of areas Ireland/Wales/bermondsey/Lewisham/Kent/
emx

10 doors away from the house i was born and brought up in llol

stray
xxx

My grandparents ( both sides ) and grt grandparents born and bred in Windsor, Berkshire. My Aunt and Uncles and their families still live in the same district and streets. Expect for my parents and myself . I was born in Australia and the same for my sister. She met a Yorkshire man and moved to England - South Essex.
a little lonely here.

OH and I live 90 miles from where we were born.

My paternal side came from Essex, in 1700's then my 2 x great grandparents moved to another part of Essex (now East London) in 1833.
My great grandmother was born in Haggerston, Middx, Her mother came from Clerkenwell, and her father from Buckinghamshire.

My maternal family, Mother's family stayed in the same area from 1700's. Essex (now East London) Father's family came from Bedford in 1885, to Essex.

OH both sides of family born and stayed in East London. Although his maternal great grandmother came from Surrey, and his 2 x great grandparents from Essex.

We now live in Hampshire.

An interesting thread!

My parents moved around a bit, but both have roots in the south - maternal side is Hampshire, Dorset, London (and East Prussia!!), paternal side is Gloucestershire and Derbyshire. Heather in Cheshire, my g-g-g-grandfather did the opposite move to your ancestor - Derbyshire to Glos in the early 1800's! I live relatively close to my 'roots'. Also, OH's paternal side came from Bristol.

My dad's paternal line lived in the Ormskirk area for c. 230 years (the furthest direct ancestor to Dad so far kindly lived until after 1851 so I had chance to check where he was born!) - so, about 45 miles away. (I'm actually going on another hunt round there soon.)

My paternal gran's line were from nearby Aughton, but a branch of her mother's line can be traced to Worcester, then Essex then London.

My mum's paternal side seem to have been everywhere - began in Suffolk, visited Essex, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincs., one strand ended up in Liverpool, so with them it depends who you're looking at.

Her mum's side are easier - one lot stayed within c.20 miles of Grantham, some others went to Alfreton and similar coal mining areas in the Notts/Derbys locality.

Just think what problems future generations will have finding us on the census. I live 600 miles from my birthplace.

My side of the family all came from north wales, the other side is from lancs, I live in the same town as my fathers family lived, I have connection with s wales and Ireland, and lately new zealand,

Jean x

Hi Sally,

I live in Essex not too far from where my Maternal Grandmother's family originated.

Spookily, I changed my job when I started researching and the job takes me to the very fields my Maternal grandfather's family would have worked and originated from in Norfolk.

My brother moved to Somerset a stone's throw from where my fathers paternal family came from, we didn't know this then.

I just need something for the paternal Grandmother in Co. Meath Ireland, never been ther, but I know I'm destined to.

Tina x

Up until last July, I had lived at the same address for 26 years in London - previous to that I had a flat for 1 year in the adjacent street. I had moved into London in my late teens having been brought up in Huntingdon and Kent then Cyprus - but ended up in Kennington, South London. I had absolutely no idea that my ancestors had lived in the very same street that my first flat was in - and even when I moved I was only 1 street away!!

It was such a shock to read on my Grt Grt Grandfather's marriage cert that he was living in Wickham Street at the time of his marriage - and that is where I had lived for a year - a very tiny little backstreet of Lambeth! How amazing is that, eh? (although back then it would have been houses, not flats).

Those ancestors had lived in that street (and families in the adjacent streets) since the early 1800s, generation after generation until finally, in the early 1900s they began moving out of London and into ... Kent! And that's where I now live LOL!

I feel like I'm playing a game of chase with them!

Athena

I still live in the house I was born in, so my son is the third generation to have lived here.

On my mother's side most of the ancestors came from within 30 miles or so from here, but on my dad's side they lived in Cheshire, 150 miles away from here, but they originated in Ireland.

Dianne xx

Im 90 mins drive away. Live near Coventry but my (as I consider it) home is Mansfield. Genealogy speaking, my home is everywhere. Exeter, Branscombe, Derbyshire, London, Bridgend, Leeds, Sussex, Kent, Sweden, Nottingham.

I live so close I would knock myself out lol

I live in what was my maternal grandparents house and what was my parents house is just up the road about 20 doors away!

My father's father have come from originally France, to Cornwall, to Wales to Bristol.

My father's mother's family have come from Wales have not found anything different as yet.

My mother's mother came from gloucestershire to Weston-super-Mare and my mother's father came from Dorset to Weston-supe-Mare and then both of them to Bristol - which is the house I am living in to this day.

So all in all it is fairly close to be honest not sure of the milege of each but Bristol seems to be pretty central for all of it.

Tina