{"id":3661,"date":"2011-04-04T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:47:49","slug":"english-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/english-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"English blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/5588017523\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5104\/5588017523_09c26e95b1_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/5588017523\/\">The kids&#8217; ancestry<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dougie, my father-in-law, has always been a bit of a Scottish nationalist, and England has always seemed a bit of a foreign country to him.<\/p>\n<p>However, my genealogical research has now established that his paternal grandmother was English (probably from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashton-under-Lyne\">Ashton-under-Lyne in Greather Manchester<\/a>) and only moved to Glasgow when she was between 7 and 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This means, of course, that the kids are one-sixteenth English, apart from all their Scottish, Danish (for Anna and Amaia &ndash; French for Marcel, Charlotte and L\u00e9on), German and Irish ancestry, as illustrated on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids&#8217; ancestry Originally uploaded by viralbus Dougie, my father-in-law, has always been a bit of a Scottish nationalist, and England has always seemed a bit of a foreign country to him. However, my genealogical research has now established that his paternal grandmother was English (probably from Ashton-under-Lyne in Greather Manchester) and only moved to Glasgow when she was between 7 and 10 years old. This means, of course, that the kids are one-sixteenth English, apart from all their Scottish, Danish (for Anna and Amaia &ndash; French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,104,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-family","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}