I received an email from a very distant rellie in the USA. His mother found some interesting information while she was over in the UK dealing with sorting out family stuff.

Here is where it can get confusing. It seems my great grandfather, who moved over to London from Ireland decided that if his denistry practice was to do well in London it would be a good idea for all his family and himself to be English!

So he registered them all as having been born in London... how's that for confusing?

Mind you, given the lack of love between the Irish and the English you can imagine his practice going down the drain when the English didn't want to go to an irish dentist :^O

I did know he was Irish, but it can happen in any family so worth all of us remembering that.