The Walkers
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
June 30, 2016 5:45pm CST
Oh and no I do not mean those walking dead people on the AMC hit "The Walking Dead."
I watched one episode of that and just left it at that. I didn't find it entertaining, but I know so many people do.
I am, instead, talking about my family. My grandmother's maiden name to be precise, and so her father's lineage.
I had taken a hiatus on the ancestral line but decided to, at the very least, jump on board to see from whence we hail.
I've always been told "Dutch Irish" was our heritage on that side of things. Well I've done the back research and I think around my tenth grandfather down the line? Scotland. Then his father hailed from Ireland, and HIS father hailed from England and so on and so forth. I could get it as far back as the reign of Henry VIII and our Walkers were in England at the time.
Couldn't get it any further back then a Ruddington Walker who lived and died in Nottinghamshire. After that it goes to "Not Available" of course it's impressive it was traced that far back as he was born in 1513. When he passed? I don't know.
So nope, no Dutch yet but I'll take my family's word for it... Maybe the Dutch comes in from a mother of a Walker...
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jul 16
Oh, an Irish one, eh? Interesting. Scotland too. I have both those in my heritage and proud of it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Jul 16
From what I have gathered, either from my own research or that of my grandfather's? Irish, and ENglish are the most prevalent but we have German in our blood as well.I keep intending to send off for a kit to do a geneology testing. Well, whatever they call the one where they can tell the percentages of your ethnicity.
There is Scottish mixed in but it seems that it's more tied in around the 1600's.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jul 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum .......That would be a great test to give you the info you want. Amazing what they can do now days.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Jul 16
@celticeagle Yes it is. I wonder how it all works as well, and how they were able to discover they could tell a person's heritage by it. The cost is $100.00 Or was the last time checked, I hope it hasn't gone up.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
30 Jun 16
My dad has done quite a bit of research and we find new connections we never knew about.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Jul 16
It's really interesting isn't it? Finding ties that you never even heard of. Or things that happened in an ancestors life that you couldn't fathom. One of my grandfather's father's ancestors was born on the ocean. She later had trouble with birthing. I don't know that those two things tie into one another. I am not sure if she was sickly due to her birth in unstable and unsanitary conditions.
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@jstory07 (148720)
• Roseburg, Oregon
1 Jul 16
My cousin and I found lots of relatives on my Dad's side of our family.
That is great that you went back that far.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I like to go back as far as I can go. That Ruddington I mentioned? He was titled "Sir Thomas Reddington" on one website... same guy.
@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
1 Jul 16
That's good to know about your ancestors. Well, I'm a Filipino but my father told me that we had a Spanish blood. That's why our skin is whiter than the ordinary fair skinned Filipinos.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I've talked to others on here who have said they also have Spanish blood mixed with their Filipino heritage.
@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
2 Jul 16
Gram's maiden name was Praul. Our immigrant ancestor, Arendt Jansen Prall immigrated to New Amsterdam from Holland. The name, Prall comes from Devonshire, England, and is thought to be derived from East Prawle, a village in Chivelstone parish in the South Hams district of the county. So, you never know. Somebody long before Arendt was born left England and moved to Holland.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
2 Jul 16
True enough. I"ve nto searched the ladies ancestry. It might lie there, the dutch Irish.
