To ask if you have 4 British Grandparents?

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In conversation with friends last night about the perks of still having an EU passport I discovered I was the only one with all 4 Grandparents being British.

DH also has 1 non British Grandparent and now when I really think about it so do a lot of my other friends. I would say the majority have an Irish Grandparent but also Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Polish, Maltese and Italian amongst my close friends.

I recall reading somewhere that 25% of British people could get an Irish passport so I guess I’m now wondering if having all 4 British Grandparents are not being entitled to any other nationality is actually quite uncommon?

No non Brits back to the 16thC.

Me - yes, all 4 were boring white and british

DH - one Irish

Yes, all British but long gone.

white British but definitely not boring!!!

Don't know why that would make them boring??

Yes, all English and born in London, also generations further back than just grandparents.

All 4 British, but my maternal great gran was German and paternal great gran was Irish.

3 Irish GPs and just one British Nan. My Dad is Irish, and so is DH. We live in England but all have Irish passports now!

My 4 biological grandparents were all British, yes. My grandad remarried after his first wife died, and his second wife was European - but he met her in her home country, she didn't already live here.

All my grandparents were British. I had one Irish great-grandparent. DH had one non-British grandparent.

3 British and 1 Eastern European

Mine are all English by birth, but have Scottish, Welsh and Irish in their family tree.
DH could have an EU passport, from his parents, but doesn’t.

I technically have 1 Irish Grandparent, but he 100% considered himself British. But I am entitled to an Irish passport but have never claimed it. Dh has the same situation.

All of mine and DH grandparents are/were British. DH DGF served in the army though for 23 years and as a result both his children were born abroad in non EU countries. As a result DH could get a passport of the country his DF was born in as it was a local hospital not a military one but has never bothered.

Two (Northern) Irish, one Maltese, one English going back about 3/4 generations- Polish or northern German before that. My husband’s were all English.

I'm dual Australian (grew up there) / British of mixed British heritage.
I remember early on as a medical student, in one tutorial we must have been discussing heritage and ethnicity in some context. I followed up the question "who here was born overseas?" with "who here has two Australian-born parents?" - very few.

All my Grandparents and all other ancestors that I know about were Welsh. I have no other ethnicity at all showing in my dna.
It must be nice to have Grandparents from several different parts of the world though, interesting.
My friends and my DH are mostly more of a mixture, with a few all one ethnicity eg Indian.

All mine were British/English, and their parents, and theirs before them etc. Going back many generations.

DH is half Irish. So obviously most of his maternal side is Irish.

Most of my friends have British grandparents/great grandparents etc. I'm not bothered about having a passport for any other country, as I never intend to leave the UK.

One side all English back to 1500s, the other less certain but GM was born in Ireland to English parents when Ireland was still part of Britain. I can't remember what the situation was called but it was before Irish independence.

In vain I have dug through my family tree for anyone who isn't British in the hope I may be able to apply for the gold-plated EU passport, and get my rights to work and stay back, but alas. Londoners going back 6 generations on both sides, give or take the odd person from...Scotland, Essex or Hampshire!

One.

It didn't do me any good when moving here.

Yes I did. I'm 55. They are all dead now. All from the area I live in.

Dd is 26, all four of her are and alive. 3 from the area we live in.

I had a Prussian grandmother.

Early 60s in age, all four Grandparents were British, same with Great Grandparents too.

I think one of mine was born in Ireland but I'm struggling to track down his birth certificate as it's hard to work out if his mother was a Lillian or a gillian, and we don't know his father's name. Another was born in England to Irish parents.. but as she never left the country, she didn't to get a passport.

2 Irish and 2 Northern Irish (so Irish and British technically).
My Irish granny is still alive.

My daughter has 3 Northern Irish and 1 Irish grandparents, so we could both get both passports even without the GFA.