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?

All my GPs were British. All my DDs GPs are British as are all my grandchildren’s GPs!

One of my grandparents was half Irish but born here so essentially British. The other 3 were either Welsh or English, so again british.

All 4 are British. Except my dad was adopted and his biological father was not British. So genetically it’s 3 out of 4.

All very British indeed. There's an unknown great grandfather in the mix that we all like to fantasise might have been more exotic, but probably not.

Though I wonder if my half Irish grandparent had dual nationality. I’ll have to ask my parents, would they have bothered with it in the 1920s? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have to look into it if there could be the possibility of an Irish passport. 🤔

3 British GP (although both my GM were born in S America), 1 Jamaican GP.

All 4 of my (dead) grandparents were English. All 8 of my great-grandparents were English. All 16 of my great-great-grandparents were English. So far, after nearly ten years of research, and identifying over 2000 relations, every single one of them was English. 11 generations of my family even lived in the same town. And I'm proud of every one if them.

Four British grandparents for me, three of which born down the same Road, fourth born less than a mile away.

All four of mine were British. DH is not British, so none of his were.

4 British grandparents not even an Irish one unfortunately! Itnakways felt to me like most people at least have an irish grandparent. I know I have some other European heritage 4 generations up

4 British grandparents and 1 Irish great grandparent

Yes unfortunately.

All four of my grandparents were born in the UK, with right of abode in UK and entitled to claim a UK passport .

They were all born in Northern Ireland.

Under the terms of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, their children and grandchildren are entitled to UK and/or Irish passports.

As a UK passport holder, I applied for an Irish passport as soon as I heard the result of the Brexit referendum, as did many, many others.

Colloquially people refer to British passports, technically they are actually UK passports.

As your question demonstrates, not everyone is aware of the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

My mum got herself an Irish passport as my Great Grandmother was Irish, unfortunately my Nan was born in England and she or my mum would have had to be registered as Irish before my birth for me to be able to claim an Irish passport. So frustratingly close! So technically all 4 of mine were British too.

I would really encourage you to inform yourself about the history of Ireland.

All of mine were british.

Yeah, same. Boring, innit? DH has Irish maternal grandparents & paternal great grandparents, but mine are all English.

All 4 were British but further back would have been Irish and Scottish and even further back would have had 1 West Indian.

Step granny is Irish, afaik all the other grandparents (4 living, 3 passed, I'm a stepdaughter myself) are English or Scottish

2 irish, 2 scottish grandparents.
Parents, 1 Irish, 1 English.
There must be loads of people with 4 british grandparents but now I'm thinking about it, most of my friends have a non british parent or grandparent.
I personally have no interest in an Irish passport, my British one has never given me any problems when travelling!

Northern Ireland can choose, Irish or British.

All dead now but I had three British and one Eastern European.

I'm 34 and all four of mine were British. 3 Scots, 1 Geordie 😊
My Geordie granny had an Irish dad though. So my dad had one Irish grandparent, he's mid 50s

So if your grandparents are 1 English, 2 Australian 1st generation (with British parents) and 1 say 2nd gen Canadian/US grandparent you can't count yourself as British? Does having 4 GB born grandparents really count as being British? What defines being British in this day and age?

I understood that most English people have strong French and German ancestry? 🤔😂 and that it's the Scots, Welsh, Irish and Cornish (Celts) who are the actual 'native' Britons?