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Since it is common knowledge that we accept all types here and according to Muzza, marrying Australian will heighten the national IQ (since there are 250,000 kiwi's here, Aussie national IQ is now above the homeland ), what are the ancestral origins of other members? I'll start, my father (John) was born in Edinborough Scotland and mother (Muriel Erich) to a German immigrant family living in Australia. | ||
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Have several ancestors who immigrated to the U.S. from Alsace, a border region between France and Germany, a bad place to be 1700-1945 (get-a-bigger-hammer blood ). Two ancestors came from Switzerland (ridgerunner blood ). One ancestor was an English-born Canadian fur trapper who took a Shoshone women for a wife (cold blooded, not as cold as Innuit though ). | |||
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English and Scottish | |||
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English and Danish on one side ,French and German ( via Tasmania - guess that explains the webbed fingers and two heads huh ? )on the other | |||
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Irish/Irish/kiwi/english. Thats looking at the grandparents lineage | |||
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According to my 18 year old son, I am a bit of everything..... ....at least that is what I assume he means when he calls me a mongrel! But to be serious most of my family is from Pommieland and came out here at the start of last century. To go further back than that, I often wonder about the observations of my doctor, who is some sort of an quack/expert on the ethnicity of his patients, and says that I have very strong Celtic features (which covers a huge amount of land both in the UK and Europe - so maybe I really am a mongrel!). | |||
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Mainly european/English. Wayyy back my great great great grandfather came out courtesy of his majesty. He got a pardon and married a free settlers daughter and from what I gather the first person to commercially cray fish the east coast of Tas. Some Irish/Scottish thereabouts. | |||
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Some call me an S.O.B. I think that may be some kind of ancestral slur...... Really though.....third generation Kiwi from Scottish and English stock way back when. | |||
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Scot/Scot/German/Greek | |||
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spainish/scottish, sounds like a new drink! | |||
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Mine is supposedly Scottish and French Canadian. Some have said my last name is Nordic so who knows. I certainly don't care since I consider myself a Native American. I was born here. | |||
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Prior to 1838 100% Prussian. Since then Australian. | |||
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Paternal side - pure Welsh, and free settlers in Oz, established farm(s) in northern Victoria. Maternal side, English/German - Boch (German) became Bock (we think) - great great great granddad exported '...for procuring an abortion...' He ended up as a noted artist and engraver in 'the Colonies', and designed the first banknotes (among other documents and architecture) for the colony of 'van Diemen's Land'. Various artworks in museums here. "Thomas Bock" in Google yields a bit about my maternal ancestor. My son, on the other hand has to deal with a somewhat more complicated ancestry!! | |||
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'english is a language!' Scottish on me dads- British on me mums side my family MOTTO Sans dieu rien= WITHOUT GOD NOTHING | |||
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Both my parents came to Australia in 1967 from the island of Crete. | |||
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My ancesters arrived in NZ in 1874 Christmas eve on a clipper ship called the Crusader,and they were not in chains My fathers side were Poms and my Mothers Scottish. | |||
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My cousin did the full family tree research thing and I'm German/English. One ancester is a McCoy who was a mutineer on the bounty and settled on Norfolk island. Another was the first white woman to give birth to a baby in the Bombala region when it was just settled, after that she apparently fought of an Aborigional attack! Now the wife has Vikings on her Dads side and Scottish on her Mums. Wife's Grandmother is a Walker (from the scotch fame)and Grandfather is a Morgan (of mad dog Morgan the bush ranger fame)SOOOO my poor kids have drunken scottish, viking,bushrangers on one side and sharp shooting mutineers on the other. | |||
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English, Kiwi, Irish, German, French, Kiwi, American, Bongolese, Trapese, Japanese and one big *ese etc. etc. I am very impressed! Which helps to explain this little gem; WE ARE ONE We are the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional wanker. We come from many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand), and although we live in the best country in the world, we reserve the right to b*tch and moan about it whenever we bloody like. We are One Nation but divided into many States. First, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in lesbians. Victoria is the realm of Mossimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand final day, and big horse races. Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief marketing pitch is that "it's liveable". At least that's what they think. The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet. Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin books read quickly and millions of dancing queens. Its capital Sydney has more queens than any other city in the world and is proud of it. Its mascots are Bondi lifesavers that pull their Speedos up their cracks to keep the left and right sides of their brains separate. Down south we have Tasmania, a State based on the notion that the family that bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra chromosome at conception. Maps of the State bring smiles to the sternest faces. It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try. South Australia is the province of half-decent reds, a festival of foreigners and bizarre axe murders. SA is the state of innovation. Where else can you so effectively reuse country bank vaults and barrels as in Snowtown, just out of Adelaide (also named after a queen). They had the Grand Prix, but lost it when the views of Adelaide sent the Formula One drivers to sleep at the wheel. Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant. It's main claim to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did, all the men would get erections on the bus on the way to work. WA was the last state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the government and business. The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains, sheep stations the size of Europe, kangaroos, Jackaroos, emus, Uluru, and dusty kids with big smiles. It also has the highest beer consumption of anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium content of anywhere too. Although the Territory is the centrepiece of our national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to flyover it on our way to Bali. And there's Queensland. While any mention of God seems silly in a document defining a nation of half arsed sceptics, it is worth noting that God probably made Queensland, as its beautiful one day and perfect the next. Why he filled it with dickheads remains a mystery. Oh yes and there's Canberra. The less said the better. We, the citizens of Oz, are united by Highways, whose treacherous twists and turns kill more of us each year than murderers. We are united in our lust for international recognition, so desperate for praise we leap in joy when a rag tag gaggle of corrupt IOC officials tells us Sydney is better than Beijing. We are united by a democracy so flawed that a political party albeit a redneck gun toting one, can get a million votes and still not win one seat in Federal Parliament. Not that we're whingeing, we leave that to our Pommy immigrants. We want to make "no worries mate" our national phrase, "she'll be right mate" our national attitude and "Waltzing Matilda" our national anthem (so what if it's about a sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide). We love sport so much our newsreaders can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning. And we're the best in the world at all the sports that count, like cricket, netball, rugby league and union, AFL, roo shooting, two up and horse racing. We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies, and the worst dressed Olympians in the known universe. Only in Australia can a pizza delivery get to your house faster than an ambulance. Only in Australia do we have bank doors wide open, no security guards, or cameras but chain the pens to the desk. Stand proud Aussies - we shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed minded, sports obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it. I am, you are, we are one Australian & New Zealand! P.S We also shoot and eat the two animals that are on our National Crest!!!! No other country has this distinction! | |||
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Russian(via China/Japan,1909)/English(Barrow-in-Furness,on the Clyde) V Third generation Aussie via England. Great Grandfather was in the Russian Border Guard with China(Harbin),have a photo in uniform with sabre. Great Grandfather on fathers side was married in a sulky borrowed from Ned Kelly's youngest brother(the baby of the family)in Kelly Country,Victoria.We have a newspaper clipping of the wedding,the couple sitting in the sulky printed years later(1950's feature) | |||
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First and Second Fleet convict supplied the family name. Maternally mum is a product of a first generation Irish woman and similarly a first generation German (talk about a strange brew). Personally I think i am as Australian as anyone who may lay claim to having ancestors here that arrived in some other form of leaky canoe (albiet smaller than the pommie ones). How long before you can claim to being indigenous....its not as though we can go somewhere else is it ...well NZ doesn't count | |||
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Grandmother on one side was scottish on the other side, great grandmother was spanish. My mother did get her 'sides' ancestry traced back 4 or 600 yrs to the 1st arch bishop of cantabury (name eludes me right now). God - wouldnt he turn in his grave today - | |||
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English, Pakistani (Indian then) and, we thought, until a couple of years ago, French, who went over to UK with Willie the Conqueror in 1066. A version of our surname is (supposedly) in the Domesday Book, a "corruption" of the French "Toussaint". BUT � on a trip to the UK a couple of years ago, at a museum, I was told � quite authoritatively � that our surname is, in fact, Viking!!! Now I have to keep reminding myself, "Rape first, THEN burn!!" Bruce | |||
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Quote: 600 years ago the priests were supposed to be celibate. | |||
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Just like priests today. Hasn't stopped a lot of them either. Heck, even the boys are fair game... No, I'm not smiling. | |||
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Quote: Bruce The "Normans" of Normandy (ie William the Conqueror) is an abbreviation of North-man, and probably Norse (ie vikings). Vikings conquered and settled in 'Normandy' so it is quite possible. | |||
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Greek and Cretan greek | |||
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German/Norwegian, have Viking heritage, and Grandfather was Third reich(found that out a month ago, Probably why I am such an arsehole when I want to be). | |||
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This is a good thread , people . Lots of involvment from folk who havent posted here before , thats great . Maybe we need general interest themes to get the discussion going more often ? | |||
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BAW I loved it. Sure theres no Tenneson in your past, Bad Ass Tenneson??? sounds OK. | |||
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BAW I like your summary of the Natives FROM A TAMPA FLA NEWSPAPER Will we still be the Country of choice and still be America if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries that came to live in America because it is the Country of Choice?????? Think about it. . All I have to say is, when will they do something about MY RIGHTS? I celebrate Christmas, but because it isn't celebrated by everyone, we can no longer say Merry Christmas. Now it has to be Season's Greetings. It's not Christmas vacation, it's Winter Break. Isn't it amazing how this winter break ALWAYS occurs over the Christmas holiday? We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards to not offend anyone, that I am now being offended. But, it seems that no one has a problem with that. This says it all! This is an editorial written by an American citizen, published in a Tampa newspaper He did quite a job; didn't he? Read on, please! IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct" crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to America. Our population is almost entirely made up of descendants of immigrants. However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, needs to understand. This idea of America being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Americans, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language! "In God We Trust" is our national motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan... We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture. If Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don't like Uncle Sam, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, our land and our lifestyle. Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion and we will allow you every opportunity to do so. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our national motto, or our way of life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great American freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE. | |||
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Nitro X, Quote: Today they are not supposed to interfere with the choirboys, but they do! With regards tracing their ancestry, there are one or two people here who I suspect can only trace it on their mothers side! Regards, Pete | |||
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Ooooooooo thats nastie Pete And no way to talk about Muzza and Far Cannal | |||
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But I freely admit to being a Bastard , it must be right coz everyone tells me all the time .....Far Canel's ancestry I suspect is more difficult to determine due to the extra chromosomes he carries.... | |||
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Interestingly enough, I just got the Canuck version of that letter tonight and it was acredited to a Canadian newspaper. I had my doubts and now I am sure. I do however agree with the sentiment! derf | |||
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