What is the earliest knowledge you have of your family name?

[hbk4894]

Just for fun

I know my grandfathers were doctors in world war two

 

[mistermagic]

My grandad was in the résistance during the war along with all the other poles of France. Unlike the cowardly French.

 

[Monkey]

I don't know too much about my family tree. This is the oldest pic I have with my Grandad.

RIP Grandad.

 

[Leo]

I don't know too much about my family tree. This is the oldest pic I have with my Grandad.

RIP Grandad.

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and not a fucking cushion in sight.....

 

[Leo]

My granda on my dad's side introduced moving pictures into our area way back.....

 

[Monkey]

and not a fucking cushion in sight.....

I know, thought I'd be serious in this thread.

 

[eightiesrobin]

Mr grandad was born in the slums of Manchester in the very early 1900s. He told me once that "the good old days" people talked about were in fact, bloody awful.

 

[Ciderhead]

I am descended from kings. Well, sort of. My ancestors used to go by the name of Ciderhead De La Toure, and were French aristocrats before having to flee to Belgium to escape the guillotine during the Revolution, dropping the latter part to avoid suspicion.

So yeah, bow before me you little shits

 

[Leo]

I know, thought I'd be serious in this thread.

Text Johnny if you want to be serious.....

 

[johnnytodd]

i have done the whole family tree shabang and can confirm i am from pure scouse stock................via Southern France and Grimsby.

 

[eightiesrobin]

I am descended from kings. Well, sort of. My ancestors used to go by the name of Ciderhead De La Toure, and were French aristocrats before having to flee to Belgium to escape the guillotine during the Revolution, dropping the latter part to avoid suspicion.

So yeah, bow before me you little shits

Not Cidrehead, sire?

 

[Ciderhead]

Not Cidrehead, sire?

Certainly not. "It is cider! Not cidre" they proclaimed regularly, looking down their noses at everyone.

Alas, the message has become somewhat muddled over the years

 

[QPR_Matt]

My surname is Parr, so I am related to Catherine Parr who outlived that fat prick Henry 8th. Top that!

 

[Craig]

My ancestor was a bladesmith from York and personally responsible for the death of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

 

[SALTIRE]

I am descended from kings. Well, sort of. My ancestors used to go by the name of Ciderhead De La Toure, and were French aristocrats before having to flee to Belgium to escape the guillotine during the Revolution, dropping the latter part to avoid suspicion.

So yeah, bow before me you little shits

Not me as I'm also descended from Scots and Irish kings; around 1200 years back!

 

[SALTIRE]

My ancestor was a bladesmith from York and personally responsible for the death of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

Was he not Harry Hotspur?

 

[Leo]

Was he not Harry Hotspur?

Is that yon Harry from the comic ?

 

[SALTIRE]

Is that yon Harry from the comic ?

Never heard of that before tbh mate.

I'm thinking of Henry Percy who would've been the 2nd Earl of Northumberland who was killed in an uprising against Henry IV and whom Tottenham Hotspur incidentally get their name from.

 

[smat]

Never heard of that before tbh mate.

I'm thinking of Henry Percy who would've been the 2nd Earl of Northumberland who was killed in an uprising against Henry IV and whom Tottenham Hotspur incidentally get their name from.

last time they won the league as well

 

[SALTIRE]

last time they won the league as well

Aye it's a bit ironic they name themselves after one of history's failures and it kind of shows what club Spurs are!

 

[Habbinalan]

Never met my dad's dad. Born 1904, he eventually died, when dad was 7, from after effects of gassing in WW1.

However, he had the great and enviable name of Septimus - he was the 7th child in a big family.