Foxy,
My grandparents were Irish, English and Scots, and the pairing was, on Dad’s side Irish and Scots and on Mum’s side English and Irish.
The English branch goes back no further than the late 1600s but the Scots side goes back over a thousand years with many other nations included.
Mum’s Irish line peters out with the appearance of a supposed convict and his Irish wife who also isn’t in the records.
Notable ancestors are St Margaret of Scotland, Robert the Bruce,, Joan ‘The Dumb Lady’ Stewart, who was the daughter of King James I
Besides James there are another 32 kings, including Edward I “Hammer of the Scots”.
and William, the Conqueror.
On the Irish side are Brian Boru, last High King of Ireland, and Dermot mcMorrough, know in Irish history as “ The First Traitor”.
There are Swedes, Danes, Italians, French, Germans and Russians
and not forgetting the Emperor Constantine, but then it has been calculated that most Europeans are descended in part from him.

All good fun but to be taken with a few grains of salt and always remembering that family trees are like peanut bushes, the best parts are under the ground.

Lots of saints as well; St Mary McKillop is a distant relative (on the Scots side) as is Mons. Hugh O’Flaherty, the “Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”.who, through his organization saved thousands of Allied prisoners and Jews from the Nazis.

Is Mise,

Thanks for your family background.

I find it all fascinating.

I found that growing up with a loving family - helped me
become the person that I am today. The horrors of war that
my parents went through did not really impinge on my
childhood. It was only much, much later I came to realize
how powerfully and inescapably that shadow did become a
part of my life.

Once again - Thanks for your family ancestry.