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What do you think of Saxons?

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  • #2
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Ehh? What?


  • #3
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    Speak for yourself I can trace my ancestry back to the Normans!


  • #4
    Sindri
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    GCDLawstudent wrote: »
    Speak for yourself I can trace my ancestry back to the Normans!

    I have the oldest fixed recorded surname in Europe. ;)


    I win!!! :)


  • #5
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    GCDLawstudent wrote: »
    Speak for yourself I can trace my ancestry back to the Normans!


    blow-in!

    Sindri wrote: »
    I have the oldest fixed recorded surname in Europe. ;)

    would that be the name burke?


  • #6
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    milehip1 wrote: »
    blow-in!




    would that be the name burke?

    Naw-aw.

    It begins with a 'C'.


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  • #7
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Sindri wrote: »
    Naw-aw.

    It begins with a 'C'.

    does it end in a 'y'?


  • #8
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    milehip1 wrote: »
    does it end in a 'y'?

    It ends with an 'E' though other variations of it end in a 'K' and, yes, also a 'Y'.


  • #9
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    quick google search result

    ''The oldest surname recorded anywhere in Europe can be found in Irish historical records dating back to the year 916. According to Friar Woulfe, an authority on the Irish surname, the first recorded fixed surname is O'Clery (Ó Cleirigh) detailing the death of Tigherneach Ua Cleirigh, lord of Aidhne in County Galway.''

    sound familiar?


  • #10
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Yup. :)

    What's your surname? Is it as prestigious as mine? :)


  • #11
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Sindri wrote: »
    Yup. :)

    What's your surname? Is it as prestigious as mine? :)

    Hardly, My surname translates from Irish into ''son of wild hound''
    it's uncommon enough in Ireland but apparently it's widespread in Jamaica of all places.


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  • #12
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Is it Cullen or Fallon?


  • #13
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Sindri wrote: »
    Is it Cullen or Fallon?

    Nope,the're widespread compared to mine,it takes much the same format as yours, without the 'o'.

    Would never post it on boards though ,so rare I reckon I'd be twigged if anyone on here knew me


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