BS: You were born where?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: John P
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 09:42 AM

IvanB,
I lived abut half way between Richland and Yorkville, near Gull Lake. Left there shortly after graduating from Gull Lake High School.

JP

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 08:21 AM

9.05pm Tuesday 12 June 1951 Mount Pleasant Hospital, Swansea, South Wales.
I've been to 'ull 7 times. Does that count?

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: JulieF
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:35 AM

Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. A town previously known only for being the brithplace of Simpson (medical discoverer) and afterwards for being in the a Proclaimers song for all the wrong reasons.

Actually that's more interesting - anyone's birthplace made famous by sone. I was christened in the Parish church in Dunkeld which I believe was the setting for a song about a still.

All the best

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 06:40 AM

Born in Birmingham UK lived there for c 18 years with a couple of short returns later, also lived in South Wales, West Wales, South and North London and now Ascot, Berks (another county that no longer exists).Paternal ancestry originally from Cheshire, maternal ancestry originally from Ireland via India, but both sides essentially Brummie.
RtS ("You can tell a Brummie by the shamrock in his turban")

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Terry K
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 06:28 AM

48 Gypsy Lane (*), Nunthorpe, Yorkshire.

Which I now describe as "as near to Middlesbrough as is respectable" - (people assume it must be a long, long way!).

After I had left, they moved Nunthorpe out of Yorkshire and put it in Cleveland.

I was brought up by my mother - a most unusual way to give birth ...........

Cheers, Terry

* Am I allowed to use the G word?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: IanC
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 05:45 AM

How many of you were born somewher that don't exist, eh!

I was born in Paxton, (old) Huntingdonshire, England and brought up in Caxton, Cambridgeshire.

I've always been sad that the county I was born in was abolished.

:-(
Ian

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 05:07 AM

No not in 'ull
I was born in Harare, Zimbawe, but to scottish parents. I have traced my family tree through my mother and found that my roots are on the Orkney Island of Shapinsay. I have cousins all over the world! But the interesting bit is that I am a Viking! (perhaps I should dye my hair red and call myself brunhilda) You're not alone Eric!
See below:

My Great Gran was a "Swanney" and member of the Gunn clan

The Swanney name to originates from the Vikings. The clan Gunn lists the surnames Swan, Swann, Swanney, and Swanson as families associated to the clan. The origin of these names came from one man named Sweyn Asliefson. He was the son of Olaf of Gairsay, who was the son of Rolf, a Viking. Sweyn (referred to as "The Ultimate Viking" or "The Pirate of Freswick") lived during the 1100's in the Orkney Islands and around the north-eastern tip of Scotland (Caithness). He died in 1171 while he was on a "viking" in Ireland. Sweyn married Ragnhild and had two sons, Olaf and Andres. Andres married Frida and had a son named Gunni, who is considered to be the progenitor of the clan Gunn.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 09:27 PM

Anyone else born in ull?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Burke
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 09:21 PM

New Orleans, LA. Neither of my parents was born there & no one from the family lives there now.

My ethnic heritage is mostly German & English with a bit of southern slave of some kind. "Dalmatia in Austria." I guess that makes me European American.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Metchosin
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 08:47 PM

Wow Spud, I hadn't thought of that in years, but I have this vague memory that our dishes were freebies from detergent boxes. And that predates the little ceramic animals in Red Rose Tea by quite some time.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 08:01 PM

Kosciusko,(koz-si-ess'-ko) Mississippi. 1952 And damned proud of it!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Challis
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:55 PM

All my family are Londoners (a mixed tribe of North and Sarf Lunduners) But folks moved out to the New Towns Development in Crawley, Sussex, where I was born.

Further back, great-grandparents were Italian, German, French Hugenot, Welsh and more French - no Irish though, even someone once told me that we all have a drop of Irish blood in us? Someone did ask me once "What blood?" I had in me - well, O Rhesus negative actually..

Oh, there's another thread - did anyone see this (diet?) thing about blood groups - i.e. one type meant your ancestors were, um, say, Neolithic Beaker people and you shouldn't eat wheat or some such?

Ciao Hille

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:45 PM

I wasn't born. My Mom got me in a box of Cracker Jack. She never was very lucky about those kind of things. She was trying to match up a six-place dinner set when she got my sister in a package of 'Mother's Oats.'

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: vectis
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:30 PM

With a moniker like mine I can only have come from the Isle of Wight. We consider England to be a foreign land full of strange beings that are inscrutable.
My husband is another descendent of one of those Norman invaders that arrived with the imported king William in 1066. Rumour has it that he couldn't afford the ferry fare so worked his passage as William's armourer.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 04:45 PM

Ey Up, I were born in 'ull too. Jack the Lad

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Caitrin
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 04:23 PM

Hey, kendall, 'bout that "great state" thing... *grins* Texans are quite certain that their state -is- better than everyone else's. And I guess it -is- a form of nationalism, but not to a degree that it's dangerous, I don't think. There's nothing wrong with thinking your state is the best; if you didn't, you'd move.

And to speak to your remark on "pride" in heritage--I'm not proud of it in the same way in which I'm proud of getting second place in the knot-tying competition. It's not the same as pride in an accomplishment. Unfortunately, at the moment, I'm not able to wrap my mind around exactly what I -do- mean...I'll get back here when I figure it out.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 04:07 PM

There's too much Hull in here. I come to Mudcat to get away from that sort of stuff!

I would have been born upstairs at me mam's, 'cept we didn't have an upstairs, being a prefab. And that was in Hull. Damn, I didn't mean to mention that.

Les

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Cobble
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 04:00 PM

I first drew breath in an Andersen shelter during a German airaid on Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire.

Mrs C.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:26 PM

I was born in Los Angeles and moved to Seattle when I was nine.

My great-grandfather on my father's side came from the Orkney Islands (I think he was born there, but I'm not sure — my sister, the genealogy buff, is working on it), went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company, and came to the San Juan Islands (disputed territory then, but Washington State now) in 1858, where he settled. My grandfather and father were born on San Juan Island. My mother's parents came from Dalarna, Sweden, and my mother (tenth of ten children) was born in Norway, Kansas (about five miles south of Scandia, Kansas).

Considering that the Vikings were using the Orkneys and Scotland as a base as early as the ninth century (and perhaps before), I probably have a lot of Scandahoovian in my genes, along with smidgen of Celt. My dad moved to Southern California for a few years, and my sisters and I were all born in Los Angeles. After bit, my father noticed that under the California sun, all the moss was falling off his north side and he decided that he needed to move back to the Pacific Northwest. We came back to Seattle when I was nine, and except for a few side-trips, I've lived here ever since. Does the fact that I was born in Los Angeles rather than here make me an artificial Seattlite?

Speaking of space travel, I presume from what you wrote, Crazy Eddie, that you are a Motie. If my presumption is correct, do you play an instrument, and if so, what? Having three arms, you ought to be pretty wild on a guitar or banjo. But with only three fingers on the gripping hand, I imagine you use a lot of open tunings. . . .

( . . . blundered into the Mote system with Janeway while she was milling around and trying to get back to the Alpha Quadrant. Of course, according to the time-line, that was about six-hundred years before you guys launched the "Crazy Eddie" probe, and Starfleet didn't know diddly-squat about Alderson Points yet.)

Earthing Shmearthling. I consider myself a citizen of the Galaxy.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Robby
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:11 PM

I have no memory of this myself, so my knowledge of where I was born is based entirely on hearsay. However, finding my parents to be reliable witnesses to the event, I was born in a hospital in Pittston, PA, a little town between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. We moved to Scranton shortly thereafter and that is where I spent my formative years. After receiving my undergraduate degreee, I moved to the area around Harrisburg, PA. Later I accepted a promotion and moved to Pittsburgh, where I now reside. Although we've travelled a bit, I was born and still live in Pennsylvania. Seems kinda boring doesn't it?
Robby

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:57 PM

Mercy hospital, Denver, Colorado...(my father was a Western Union lineman, and that's where we were near at the time...a few months earlier or later, and I could have been born in Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma...etc...)...we didn't settle down till I started school...in New Orleans

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: harpmolly
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:31 PM

You're just dying to get your nose broken again, eh? ;) Like I said Saturday night (not that you remember *wickedgrin*), I won't give you the satisfaction. *g*

M

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:59 PM

and as ornery as ever.....

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: harpmolly
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:57 PM

Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California. My mother was a fifth-generation San Franciscan, but apparently I was six weeks premature, and surprised them all quite soundly, so they didn't want to risk the longish drive to make me a 6th-gen. *grin*. But Stanford Hospital is a great place, especially if one is going to be born weighing three pounds nine ounces and threatening to check out early every five minutes. I'm alive today. 'Nuff said. ;)

M

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: DougR
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:29 PM

Clifton, Texas in my parent's home.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:24 PM

Louisville, KY. I have admitted this all my life.

Kendall, Texas isn't a state, it's a Republic. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:19 PM

Tacoma, Washington. At St. Joe's, to be precise.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:18 PM

Hasn't everyone been thrown out ofthe Newlands at some time or other?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Dorrie
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:14 PM

Yep certainly am

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: death by whisky
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:58 PM

Upstairs. Derry City.From a midwifes basket. No choice in the matter.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: IvanB
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:35 PM

I was born in Riverdale, MI, USA, a town of about 100 inhabitants at the time. My parents moved from there when I was an infant, so, aside from still having relatives in that area, I hold no great pride of place. I've lived in Michigan all my life, though, and probably will continue to do so. I currently live in Lansing, about 1-1/2 miles from the great god Elderly, which receives my regular tithes.

John Peekstok, where between Kazoo and BC were you? I used to inspect meat packers in that area in the late 60's.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,ppp dns phone number
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:26 PM

Would be the next question lol .... hey go shove yer burnin cross ....

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Static Chaos
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:23 PM

Born in Anderson, Indiana at 1:30 a.m. Left the same day and never been back. Grew up in Phoenix, Arizona where the desert sun baked my brain. Absolutely certain I'm a Celtic warrior, running about the house naked. If heritage is a state of mind, I'm certainly insane enough to be English Nobility.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,ohhh... now I'm wondering ???
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:22 PM

Frankly can't remeber back that far! I mostly want to know where people are going not where they came from.

"Whar ya from Dude ?" Not answering or non cooperation means instant pain ... burning crosses and all that.

Love Bert's commonsense :)

Rick didn't King Ketchup the Melodian player have to wear a long cloak and cover his face among his subjects?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:16 PM

I was born in pontefract general hospital, west yorkshire, AND PROUD OF IT!!

Hey it's better than saying I'm from selby....

....only joking by the way...

Don't mind the fact that I live just outside selby, it aint as bad as people make it out to be!!

AND....WE'VE GOT THE JUG NYAH NYAH NY NYAH NYAH!!

JEZ XXX

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:13 PM

Damn right Kendall. I was born upstairs at me mams. I am still waiting for the Blue Plaque thingy to be put on the wall. By the way John in Hull, I've been to Hessle and Anlaby and was asked to leave the Newlands Hotel in Cottingham Road. fB

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Bardford
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:08 PM

I was born in a crossfire hurricane, under the wrong sign, in sweet Tipperary Town, here in the mountains, up in the mountains, one mornin' when the sun didn't shine, in Saginaw Michigan, in the path of the winter wind, on Prince Edward's lsland near by the ocean strand, in Texas in the year '89, in the boredom of the chowder, about ten thousand years ago,ten miles from Dublin Town, on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat.
Cheers, Bardford,
Born in Nanaimo, on the east coast of lovely Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Now landlocked on the Canadian prairies. Me, not Nanaimo.
Ancestors in Somerset,Glamorganshire,Dundee,Bavaria.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:40 PM

On the Starship Voyageur somewhere in the Delta quadrant. Part Talaxian, part Human. Delievered by a holographic Doctor named "Joe".
Bribed the temperal police to send me back in time to the early 21st century as replicated pre-war Martins just didn't have the same spank. They agreed as my existence didn't affect the time line in any signficant way.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:21 PM

This thread could use some humor.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Mooh
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:59 PM

In the old Wiarton hospital, Wiarton Ontario, in the shadow of the escarpment on the Bruce Peninsula. Beautiful little town.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: mooman
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:38 PM

I was born in Peckham, London. My mother was pregnant with me when my parents came to London from Ireland and I retain my Irish nationality having been brought up in an Irish household with all things Irish including music going on around me, so I think of myself as Irish, though a Londoner as well!

mooman (ex-mcmoo)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:46 PM

i was born and consider myself to be from Bonners Ferry, Idaho...now I live in the Portland, Oregon area....

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:41 PM

dorrie-im definetly not posh:-) are you in hull as well?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Dorrie
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:06 PM

hey john from hull thats really posh to b born in beverley - i was there today actually i was born in hedon road hospital

love dorrie xxxx

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Nancy King
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 11:53 AM

I was born in Washington, D.C., as were both of my sons. My parents were from Oregon (though my Dad was born in Vancouver, B.C.--his parents had moved there from Iowa or Illinois or some other midwestern state).

I've never really gotten into genealogy, but I'm grateful to my cousin Rob, who has documented my mother's family very thoroughly. It's interesting reading, but I don't think I would want to do the research myself. Rather spend the time singing...

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 09:58 AM

At 60 Cecile Park, Crouch End, London N8;then laid in a drawer in the front bedroom 42 years ago today (which was Derby Day)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 09:49 AM

i was born in beverley,east yorkshire uk,(its about 7 miles north of hull)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 08:55 AM

Geez, sorry about that, remindes me of the first time Adam met Eve. She was stark naked, and he said "Stand back, I dont know how big this thing gets"

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 08:52 AM

Rick, you made me laugh right out loud! "The self abuser" indeed. To be specific, I was born at home in a little community called Kennebec, a.k.a. Skunks Misery, just outside Machias Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 08:40 AM

49 Rayleigh Road, Woodford Green ,Essex England
Back bedroom on the left.