uk citizenship question.

[hobbit.]

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My paternal family (on both sides) have been traced back to the 15th century, you're doing amazingly well to take it any further - unless you're tracing royalty.

Or making up a load of bollocks that nobody can be arsed checking.

I can trace my roots back to the garden of eden which kind of trumps some weird claim to being related to a relation of someone who knew someone who was due to sail on the spanish armada.

 

[oggbashan]

My question was aimed at the original poster

My paternal family (on both sides) have been traced back to the 15th century, you're doing amazingly well to take it any further - unless you're tracing royalty.

My paternal family were resident in the City of London (until 1915 - bombed out of the family home by a Zeppelin) and were printers (and scriveners before the printers), Someone, usually all, male amd female, has been able to read and write all that time. We have a very unusual surname, always spelled the same way, and appear in the City of London records as freemen, members of guilds, and parish clerks.

My Maternal family has roots in a small Suffolk village and can trace back there until the 15th century, but one branch is descended from the daughter of a disgraced nobleman. She married a yeoman farmer when her father was displaced from his lands - but he could trace descent from King Henry II. Many long resident UK people can claim descent from nobility and royalty, either like me through legitimate daughters or through numerous bastards.

There is one late 18th-century woman in that Suffolk village who had a very unusual set of names. She is unique on Ancestry. But she had twelve children all of whom survived to marry and have a similar number of children themselves. Someone else has calculated that her living descendents are now 2,500, increasing monthly...

 

[Thumpingrug]

Its just started to rain and probably won't stop for 6 months. Stay away and do yourself a favour. Most of us would rather live somewhere else.

 

[doowdniw]

Apparently I've been an automatic British citizen since I was born. Learn something new every day.

 

[great lover]

Why would anybody want UK citizenship
when there is so much room in Canada?

Too many Yanks in Canada!

 

[great lover]

I've taken three online versions. Apparently I passed with a minimum of 95 % at worst...

What is the passing score? Also, I don't have any special skills. An uncle on my mother's side was born in the United Kingdom. Some town called Glossop in the UK.

 

[stickygirl]

What is the passing score? Also, I don't have any special skills. An uncle on my mother's side was born in the United Kingdom. Some town called Glossop in the UK.

Glossop in Derbyshire? Eh by eck chuck! They won't let you back into Derbyshire unless you play cricket. Nice part of the world on the edge of the Peak District with some good pubs

 

[great lover]

Glossop in Derbyshire? Eh by eck chuck! They won't let you back into Derbyshire unless you play cricket. Nice part of the world on the edge of the Peak District with some good pubs

Rugby is more style, but what is so difficult about hitting a ball with a bat. I am sure I could manage it with a little bit of practice.