I have been working in Wales since August. In my workplace, some people's descent is easily distinguished by their accents, but others elude easy categorization. I know there are some characteristic Welsh surnames, but not sure what they are and where they apply. Some of my coworkers are Welsh but have no such indication in their accents or surnames. I realize some may have moved from England or Scotland, but Im talking about Welsh born and bred. Any info on this that would satisfy my curiosity would be appreciated!
I notice that most people have normal english / anglicized surnames, but when I look at the names of Plaid Cymru they have a lot of “aps” followed by a traditional welsh patronymic. I assume they either use it unofficially or they changed their legal name back into the Welsh orthography / patronymic.
Imagine, if someone’s surname was Davies, could they change their legal name it into ap Dafydd or their father/mother’s name? Is this something people do or not? Or do they just use it as an unofficial alternate nickname?
I've googled this stuff, and you get the usual Jones, Hughes, Evans, and that's not a lot to work with. I've seen also that you can add a placename, but I'm only familiar with the main landmarks, and I'd prefer something less conspicuous than Cardiff-Jones. I'd gladly make something up, but I haven't developed the ear for what sounds natural and what ridiculous. (By the way, the character in that Hansh show - Esyllt Ethni-Jones - is that natural or ridiculous?)
Any suggestions?
I've heard surnames like Evans and Jones are common in Wales, and entire villages have to use differentiation with people's names to avoid the problem if you were referring to a John Jones or Sian Evans for example. (using common names as placeholders here).
I know near me in Wigan, well, Ashton-in-Makerfield, these sorts of surnames are common due to Welsh emigrants but we don't have this issue yet.
I have a question for people who are from Wales or currently live in Wales. Is Davis (Davies, David) really a common surname in Wales? My last name is Davis and I am an American, but I've always been curious about the last name Davis and I had read from some brief research that it's very likely my ancestors came over from Wales as Davies, and later it got changed to Davis. This probably sounds naive or like every other annoying American, but I just thought I'd ask. I love the British isles and have always had a strong desire to travel there or live there. I did a study abroad in Ireland a few years back but I really would love to see Wales and England. I've always wanted to learn Welsh too, but it seems very difficult lol.
Basic whatevers:
I have a paid world explorer ancestry account, and I had been avidly researching my family tree, almost daily. I have not gotten passed my 4th great grandfather in my Evans line (which I know is a treacherous name to research, to begin with.)
I'm stuck in 1830 with the birth of Daniel E. EVANS who married a Susannah in the Baltimore City area. The family has only resided in Maryland, as far as I can figure out from census and such. I found the couple on Find-a-Grave, but I cannot for the life of me find a sturdy connection between Daniel and any other siblings or parents. I have found a census that suggest he was possibly a boarder at a young age.
Also, I'm not too sure if anyone else is familiar with Evans' in Maryland, but we are not related to the Smith's Island Household, as far as I can tell.
So here's the actual question,
Where would you here at r/genealogy suggest I look for more information?
Evans is a really common name. I've run out of ways to Google, with no leads left on Ancestry, and no more census forms with any viable information. I would really like a lead on any other sites I could use to possibly find Welsh immigrants or something, anything, that would help me trace the line further back.
I am a n00b at the whole thing, so please excuse me.
Thanks if you can help.
This situation is really stupid, but it’s causing problems for my family. I honestly don’t think I’ve been an arsehole, but general opinion seems to be against me.
My sister (who took her husbands surname, Farmer, when she married) is pregnant. She recently announced that they plan to name him Sherlock. I assumed this was some bizarre joke, because…well…you CAN NOT name a baby Sherlock. But, it turns out they’re serious.
I told her that admiration for a famous person or character isn’t a reason to name someone. I admire Dick van Dyke, but I wouldn’t saddle a child with that name because I’m not psycho. She argued that Sherlock was different because it “wasn’t offensive”. I said that her son would find it pretty offensive when they were being bullied for it in high school. I love my sister and I know it’s not really my business what she names her kid, so I kept my comments jokey and light and didn’t push it. But, seriously? She just can’t.
Later that night I created a collage of Jeremy Brett, Johnny Lee Miller and Bendylick Crumplepatch, planted in a field, being tended by a baby in a hat and sent it to her with the caption Sherlock Farmer. I thought it was kinda cute and funny, but might make her second guess her bizarre choice.
Instead she called me, screaming that I’m evil, have no right to judge her choices, that her husbands entire family are going to hear about how I mocked their surname (which was in no way my intention) and I’m no longer her sister until I can learn not to be a judgemental arsehole.
I’ve apologised for my poor taste in humour, I’ve deleted the pic, I’ve made it clear that I wasn’t mocking the surname Farmer. And still she won’t talk to me. I’ve dropped it, because I don’t wish to further upset a pregnant person, but I really don’t think I was in the wrong. I guess that’s why she won’t forgive me.
So, tell me. Am I wrong here? Do I need to change my way of thinking?
Quick edit as I’m seeing several people saying I should have minded my own business. Her exact words during the name announcement were “We’re calling the baby Sherlock, what do you think? Won’t that be cute?” In my view that means she invited my opinion.
Also my sister and I have always had a teasing, bantering relationship. We’re Welsh, it’s what we do. Creating joke memes isn’t unusual for us. Nor is dark humour. The day after my ten year relationship ended she sent me a pack of antihistamines and an advert for kittens with the message “You’ll have to ge
... keep reading on reddit ➡I feel like middle names are just a way to identify people and formalities nowadays, due to how common household names are. Are there actually any times when people refer to you as your middle name?
John Smith <— could be anyone John William Smith <— I know that guy
Warning: this is yank ancestry post #287262829272
I had been trying to find information about my moms side of the family for years, especially her paternal side and I never could find anything about my great grandfather’s parents. I always assumed that her dads side of the family were Irish Catholics, because 1. They were Catholic and 2. The family surname is Dunn, which is a common surname in Ireland. I also assumed they likely immigrated to America in the late 1700s/early 1800s or even earlier, like every other branch of my family that I’ve researched did.
Recently my mom mentioned that her great grandfather was probably from England, since she had read old letters from one of her great grandfathers brothers talking about how he doesn’t like America (honestly same) and that he’s moving back to England. Did some more digging based off of that and found out that they were neither Irish or English, they were Welsh, and they were from Pembrokeshire and Merthyr Tydfil and they came in the late 1800s to work on the railroads in America. Also that most of the family moved back, with the only exception seeming to be my great great grandfather. I even found a picture of my great great great grandmother in her home in Wales, in the late 1930s. She seemed like a very nice lady, I hope she was at least. She also looked almost exactly like my mom, which was kind of startling.
This also makes me wonder about any distant relatives I could have currently in Wales.
In hindsight I guess I should not have been too surprised, my grandfather had lots of heirlooms that he mentioned were from the UK, including a decorative metal wall plate that had a foreign language on it that I didn’t recognize as a kid but it was very likely Welsh.
I don’t think ancestry is super important and its not like I’m Actually Welsh but it is nice to know what was up with my more recent ancestors, especially since my moms dads side was always so secretive about everything.
Whenever life/the pandemic permits I really want to come see Wales. I also have a desire to learn Welsh, even more than I already did, the language sounds cool.
I was wondering what happened to the British who settled Chile
Apparently 700,000-800,000 Chileans have British ancestry
As a rugby fan I noticed a couple of their players have British surnames
Did British-Chileans over time merge into the general Chilean population? Or are there distinct communities?
Does Chile have any English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh communities like how there’s Welsh communities and Boer communities in Chubut in Argentina and Croat communities in the Magallanes in Chile?
This is a repost. The original appeared on AskAManager.org, not Reddit.
A reader writes:
I graduated from college in 2015 and am currently working at my first post-graduation job in the area I went to school for. I have been working here for 18 months. My cousin is a year younger than me and he graduated from college last summer. He has been working here for six months. The company we work for is large and well-known (many of your American readers would recognize the name). We work in different divisions, on different floors, and below the executive level our work doesn’t cross into each other’s division. We don’t see each other at work except for the rare occasion.
I do have a concern: my aunt and uncle are helicopter parents. They are involved in every aspect of my cousin’s life. They do his laundry, cook his food, pay his bills, and take him shopping for clothes, shoes, and toiletries. He has never spent the night away from both his parents at once. When he was in college, they drove him every day because the bus was “too scary” and he “wasn’t ready.” They helped him with his homework and would call professors and show up at the school if they felt his grades were too low or he was being treated unfairly.
This pattern has continued into his working life. They drove him to interviews and insisted on sitting in the lobby while he was interviewing. He didn’t get offers because of this (plus the fact that, besides this current one, he has never had a job, internship, or any other kind of work). On the day he interviewed for the job here, my aunt was still looking for parking when he was called in, so no one realized that the woman who came to to the lobby later was his mother.
I know that my aunt and uncle have called his boss as well as upper management when they feel he is being “unfairly treated.” My aunt once came in and demanded to speak to the executive management about my cousin being denied vacation time before he had accrued any. I’m concerned because my cousin and I have the same rare Welsh surname, the same Welsh accent and look somewhat alike (both have red hair and freckles). I’m afraid people will associate me with him and my aunt and uncle.
The last time my uncle called here, I heard people talking about it in the elevator. No one has said anything to me, but our respective managers both go to the same meetings. Peo
... keep reading on reddit ➡I (17M) have a very Asian/middle eastern sounding name (my parents are Indian and I'm brown btw). I have lived in the UK my entire life and I feel entirely British- I've started referring to my identity as Brown British, not Asian. I want to change my name to something that better represents this identity, a traditional sounding but still unique sounding British or Welsh surname. My parents have expressed very clearly that this will upset them greatly and that there will be 'consequences', my mum in particular said this would be devastating for my dad as his first name is my surname. They also say that I am throwing away my heritage and am trying to be a 'fake white person'. This change is more about my personal identity and when I'm Mr something in the future I want that to be something that feels right to me. How should I approach this and should I change it when I turn 18 even against their wishes? I've also already had many conversations about this- so 'talking it out' is not really much of an option anymore.
Surname: Welsh origin
Parent 1: fn Welsh origin; mn means joy or happiness
Parent 2: fn makes you think of Winter; mn a name from your family tree
Child 1: fn 7+ letters; mn space related
Child 2 (twin): fn contains an X; mn from Roman mythology
Child 3 (twin): fn: contains a Z; mn from Norse mythology
Child 4: fn ends in -son; mn 6+ letters
Child 5: fn starts with the last letter of parent 1's fn; mn begins with the same letter as parent 2's mn
Dog: names after a famous racehorse
Cat: food related name
(mine will be in the comments)
Seems obvious they have flower related names. Might just be a superficial theme, might have greater meaning.
Olyenna: sounds like a feminine form of Oleander. Fitting because that’s a poisonous plant, and she might have poisoned Joffrey.
Luthor: I don’t know if this one fits. Could possibly be related to the word “luthier”(person who makes lutes). And “lute” could potentially come from an Arabic word meaning “wood”. That’s kind of plant related.
Garlan: sounds like Garland, which is a decorative circular arrangement of flowers. Usually given in celebration. Perfect name for a flower themed knight.
Loris: sounds like a masculine version of Laurel. Which is those leaves Julius Caesar is often depicted wearing like a crown. Similar to a garland.
Mace: that’s of course a weapon, also a ceremonial staff, and also a spice you get from the same plant as nutmeg. Speaking of nutmeg
Margaery: Meg is a nickname for Margery. As is Daisy.
Willas: I’m not too sure on this one. Wila is a type of sometimes edible and sometimes poisonous lichen, that looks like coyote or horse hair. Let me hear your theories on this one.
There you have it. Their names have a plant theme. Winds is taking so long I’m over here researching plant names.
Me and my girlfriend have been talking about baby names, and since I'm Icelandic and She is Welsh I wondered if there are any good names that wouldn't be considered strange in either country, like the name Edward for example. I'd also be interested if anyone knows names with a Scandinavian root in English or Welsh, she speaks both but English is her primary language but either would be cool.
Essentially I'm looking for names that are a combination of either English/Scandinavian or Welsh/Scandinavian, or just names that sound like they are. Iceland has strict naming laws but don't worry about that. Thank you
As a bonus I'd also be interested in hearing what surname would be a good fit (:
I’m probably biased because I read here before that there’s a shift in style between books 1-3 and books 4-6, but I do feel like the tone and action rhythm has changed. And it’s like the world is expanding a LOT: the details about geography, history, culture, and the characters complexity and evolutions are really great.
My biggest shock was when I realized Siuan and Leane had been stilled, I still almost can’t believe it. I don’t doubt they are still going to be important characters in the future, and how they will manage (or not) to get over this massive trauma will be interesting, but I was soooo sad.
It’s hard to pick up my favorite parts, but the chapters where Rand and the reader discovers the history of the Aiel going “backwards” are definitively up there. I really enjoyed guessing, as Rand advanced step by step, what all this was about. Some clues to understanding the differences between the Aiel, the Jenn Aiel and the Tuatha'an are only a few pages before the actual “explanation”. It’s very well written, I enjoyed it a lot.
Globally, I love that RJ gives us a lot of clues about a lot of things (which character may be a forsaken, who is Rand’s mother, who is Slayer, etc.): the writing style using the character’s POV works really well there, because as a reader, we can guess a lot, thanks to information we read in the previous books. And if we don’t, it’s not really a problem, it will be explicit sooner or later, no pressure on us 😉.
Other thoughts:
Tear chapters: after the rushed ending of TDR I was glad to get more details about how it happened and to get to see the EFs together a little.Rand taking his time to read a lot about al sorts of things (mainly about the prophecies) is nice because it feels like his decisions afterwards are not completely out of the blue.I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t get to see Mother Guenna before they left, I liked her in TDR.
Getting to know the Waste and more about the Aiel culture was great, as well as the Sea Folks!
I really liked the Two Rivers chapters too: “going back” to Emond's Field was refreshing, the part about Perrin’s family being murdered was very emotional, and I liked to read about “normal simple human heroes” doing what they can to fight, stay alive, do the right thing (compared for example to Nyneave’s and Rand’s fights against the forsaken, which are also great parts).
What is strange to me in this very complex world is that the “countries” have a lot of cultural differences (politics, b
... keep reading on reddit ➡I know people have been waiting for Chapter 24's upload, so there's no sense in further delaying it. Here it is, and it's a lot bigger than 23 was.
I do just want to say, that I really do appreciate everyone reading. I would love to get chapters out more regularly than I do. I have more chapters already written, the reason I don't release them right now is because if I do that, then I will run out. Rest assured, the day I hit 100% completion on future chapters (maybe when it's down to just one or two unwritten, because then I can just hit the gas on getting them out), I will accelerate the release schedule. However, there are, by my count, 13 more chapters (including the epilogue) for this story. About half of those exist only in note form at the moment, the rest vary from fully-complete to a few paragraphs with a note that says "this is the bit where Tergelyx does X" or whatever.
When this is all over and done, I am going to put the entire series, including accompanying one-shots into a word counter, and I would not be shocked at all if the number got to a million plus.
Anyway, with that stuff out of the way, here it actually is.
Washington Township, Pennsylvania
“Good evening everyone. I’ll cut straight to the point here. I know, that after what happened to Pittsburgh, a lot of you are feeling very angry. We got lucky, real bloody lucky. No soldier should ever have a brush with death like that, but for some of us that’s our second time. By my guess, that entitles us to a few free drinks.”
That last line from the Sarge got a chuckle out of much of 2 Platoon, as they sat outdoors, under a camouflage net, listening to the briefing. Personally, Tergelyx preferred not to think about how many times he had almost died so far, as it could get rather depressing.
“Regardless, some of you may be expecting, or even hoping for, some sort of revenge against the Imperium’s forces. What we are participating in, should grant you that.” Fletcher stopped talking, nodding over to Lt Faulder. Faulder began gesturing at the map, stuck up on the side of his Warrior, that served as his pinboard for the duration of this briefing.
The map showed a large swathe of Pennsylvania still in Hekatian hands
... keep reading on reddit ➡as an American, i dislike when people outside the US think we're all stereotypical rednecks: big trucks, southern drawls, uneducated, racist.
or, conversely, that we're all effete East Coasters.
also when people think we're all obese, loud, violent, isolated, uncultured, and have never traveled outside the US...or that we think the US is the "greatest nation on earth" because we never go elsewhere.
what stereotypes do the Brits wish would go away?
EDIT: by "worst", i mean:
- The most incorrect
- The ones that get on your nerves the most
- The ones that are repeated the most despite being incorrect
- The ones that portray Brits in a very negative light
PS - the most common ones i've heard are:
- Brit men are gay/effeminate
- Brits are alcoholics
- Brits are all crazy, knife-wielding soccer hooligans
- Brits are secretly racist, especially toward Indians/Pakistanis and Caribbean people...but they never come out and say it, they have racist "code words"
- the Queen/royal family are reptilian alien Illuminati who take their orders from Pindar, the Intergalactic Reptilian Overlord (not kidding)
- we "saved" England from the Germans in both World Wars
- the French and English despise each other
- no Brit will ever say something impolite to your face, but they'll talk mad shit behind your back the minute you leave the room
I'm still at a brick wall with my grandmother's family, but I've been able to find out an almost amazing (at least to me) amount of info on my grandfather's family, and have traced them back to the 1600s. I still don't know much, but I'm getting really interested.
Apparently, my grandfather was wildly mistaken when he said his family was Welsh or English. They were actually mostly German.
They had, apparently, heavily anglicized the spelling of their name from the extremely German form, Boeckel, to the more common (and usually English, from what I can find) surname of Bickel at some point in the mid 19th century.
Apparently his ancestor, Tobias Boeckel came over from Germany in the 1730s and settled in Pennsylvania to build a farm. He was apparently a devout convert to the Moravian Church, and donated the land to build his local church. His son, Johann or Johannes Bockel (who, as near as I can tell, seems to be the one who began spelling the surname differently, although the records vary wildly in spelling for them all) later served in the Revolutionary War, and his descendants later reverted back to the German Reformed faith Tobias had left, and eventually scattered around Pennsylvania and Ohio before reaching my hometown in Indiana about the late 1890s.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I'm not sure I totally buy into the fact that Ancestry can accurately distinguish between the various ethnicities of the British Isles, but one thing about my results has been bothering me for a while. I'm only 1/2 American, and yet my Ancestry breakdown has Wales at a whopping 13%. This would imply that my mother is rougly 1/4 Welsh! That side of my family has been in the US for over 400 years, so we are definitely multi-generationally mixed, but looking at my extensive family tree, I don't see ANY identifiably Welsh last names. How is it possible for my mom to be ~25% when I don't see a single Welsh surname? On one hand it's probably not that accurate, but on the other, I've never seen another American with such a high Welsh percentage.
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Mentos
(I will see myself out)
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
