#i kinda wanna have a kid now just so i can call it dionisia tryphena

[nyebevans]

so i guess i’ve gotta plan a trip to tipperary and limerick at some point to visit where my great-grandma was born and raised... and also belfast in northern ireland, because some of my mum’s lot come from there (and moved to liverpool where they joined up with the rest of her family tree). which i find cool because i knew i was a bit irish on my dad’s side, but never knew mum had irish ancestry too!

also, some of mum’s liverpool & shropshire side of the family begin to branch out to staffordshire and northamptonshire further back, which is cool. the welsh side of the family mostly came up from carmarthenshire and cardiganshire to join with the caernarfonshire contingent, who moved in from denbighshire to greet the shropshire lot! it’s so fun seeing the trajectories of a family line... the shropshire side of the family was there a looooooong time.

one of dad’s grandma’s sisters from tipperary died in wisbech, cambridgeshire, near where i went to uni, which is WILD to me. and her husband, my dad’s granddad redvers, was from huntingdonshire, also super close to my uni! my dad also potentially has a scottish ancestor, but i can’t find any information about her other than her name and that she was maybe born in scotland in the 1650s. she’s so far back it hardly counts, but it would have been cool to find out more about her

ALSO. fun name of the day: one of my mum’s ancestors was called tryphena sadler