Well I dunno muucchhhh about my family history, but here's what I do know:
Both of my parents are Scottish. On my mother's side, my grandfather was through-and-through Scottish and my grandmother was English. On my dad's side my grandfather was also completely Scottish and my grandmother's Scottish - but not for long.
My dad's mum's mum (lawl) was Irish. I'm not entirely sure which part of Ireland she came from, but I think it was Northern Ireland. Maybe. Probably.
My mum's mum's family was English for most of the way, but she used to speak of many stories of her ancestry, some of which were true and some of which we don't really have any idea about. There are two that she spoke of which intrigue me; one was about one of her ancestors - from central Europe somewhere - was a maid for a posh family. However, she was very friendly with the master of the house (I mean VERY friendly - you know, wink wink, nudge nudge, rumpy-thumpy, rolling around together, making the sweet scones of love, doing the secks) and ... stuff. She was punished for this and thrown out and stuff, I dunno, it was vague. But it sounded cool at the time.
And the other one - which was as confirmed by a genealogistperson as it ever will be - was ... Spanish pirates. Yeah. Not many of them, mind you, but they were Spanish. They might have said 'arrrrr'. We're pretty sure it was that a Spanish pirate married into the family rather than being there the whole time, but it's cool! And piratey. And Spanish.
