Is anyone 100% from one place in the UK?

[FortyKinks]

Out of interest, is anyone say 80%+ from one county in the UK? Or region? Because I am a great big mix of places in my tree, but when I get back to great grandparent level, quite a few of them were '100% Cornish' or '100% Wiltshire' as far as records go

I think if you look at some of the islands surrounding Scotland you may find that there will be people whom have a much higher % rate of being from one place.

Luckily it is rarer these days. It's not good for a species to repeatedly inbreed in small, siloed populations.

I just found out that gg grandparents were from a long line of Romany gypsies!

Thought we all West Country as far back as time!

My family, both sides. Very very little movement. Despite that I am well educated and have a good job, and a normal amount of toes.

DH is a pure breed, his family is entirely from NE Scotland; I'm a mongrel, English, Welsh, Irish, Maltese, Sicilian & a smidge North African.

Quite the opposite!
Way back I have Caithness, Scotland and Kerry, Ireland ancestors, that quickly became Welsh, Midlands and Cornwall (famines, clearances and all that)...
Ex was Yorkshire and Lancashire family - so like me, my kids are a total mongrel mix of genes....

I did my BFF's family tree. All within 20 miles of where she lived, except one person in the distant past, from the next county.

On both sides I’m not aware of anyone coming from anywhere other than East or West Sussex! There could be on GGP level though, I doubt it though 😁

My dad's side of the family are, someone did a family tree and they basically lived in a square mile (where I grew up) area for about three centuries 😂. Both myself and my dad have now moved so we've broken the trend.

I live in the East Mids and where I live there are few outsiders. Regionalism is the norm.

I don't come from here and never known a place like here!I

I come from the South been here years and still get people comment on my accent. They mean no harm mind lol.

@Augustus40
We lived in a very small county in the East Midlands and were referred to as 'Blow-ins' by the locals.

We were from Gloucestershire and our accent was always commented on.

I bet a lot of those people have Viking ancestry.

My dad has just had his results - 86% English- all London, Essex and East Anglia. We're not surprised, my maiden name is very much an Essex name.

His family didn't move far! My mum was a lot more Irish although still considerably English.

I know my mums family historically are from all over the south west going back about 300 years.

Some of the local people i know can trace their ancestors to just one town which they still live in themselves.

I am solidly English but from a fairly wide geographic area- Sheffield/London/Shropshire/Devon

I'm pretty much Fen through and through! This causes much hilarity from my husband and others😃

I'm 100% Lancastrian. My late mother went back through her family tree as far as the 17th century and her family were all born and bred in a small area within Lancashire. My father came from 3 miles away where certainly the last 4 - 5 generations have lived and we have a Lancastrian surname (90-95% of people globally with this surname are Lancastrian).

My work colleagues are fascinated by the fact I'm 100% English as that's quite unusual in my organisation (global company).

We've gone a fair way back on our family tree and I'd say we're 90% from one region (Yorkshire and the Humber). There's one person born in Ireland but to English parents stationed overseas with the Royal Engineers, otherwise the furthest I've seen is Norfolk.

I have gone back to 1700 for most branches of my family tree and found very few outside a 5 mile radius of where I grew up. It is a rural peninsula so harder for people to move away. A lot of my ancestors are related. I have moved away 200 miles!

Comparing family trees and actual DNA is different. You're your mummy's baby, your daddy's maybe.

If you'd asked me a couple of decades ago, I was one thing. Now I'm another.

DH is very boring. Scottish with a little Scandi (Viking). Boring arse.