Am i irish or scottish? is there a difference?My last name is GRIEVE?

Question

i was looking at my family ancestry from long ago and it say some of my family came from Scotland and some from Ireland so what am i?

Answer 1

If some of your family came from Scotland and some of your family came from Ireland, you are of Scottish and Irish descent.  Unless, of course, your "Irish" ancestors were Protestants and came from Northern Ireland, or Ulster.  Then you would be of Scottish and Scots-Irish (or Ulster-Irish) descent.  The Scots-Irish (to use the American term for them) were Lowland Scots who immigrated to Ulster during the 17th century.  United States Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, has written an excellent book detailing the history of the Scots-Irish, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America" (2004).

P. S.  Start researching your family's history, beginning with your parents and grandparents, looking at primary records--birth, death, and marriage certificates, wills, and deeds.  Your local public or university library should also have census records available on microfilm.  After you have a basis for comparison, you can look up your family on line on a web site such as Ancestry.com.  Your library should have a subscription, or once you become really hooked on family history as a hobby, you can take out a subscription of your own.   This way, you can work in the Grieve name, which is English in origin, to what you believe is a predominantly Scottish and Irish heritage.

Answer 2

LOL, you've just offended all the Scots and Irish on here. They are two different nationalities, under the broad umbrella of "British". But they're as different as the Italians and the Spaniards.

If indeed you do have family from both, depending on the percentage, let's say half and half. That would make your HERITAGE half Scottish and half Irish. If you wanted to generalise it further, you could just say you're 100% British. BUT if you weren't born in either Scotland or Ireland, then your NATIONALITY would be of the country in which you were born.

It depends what you prefer. I'm half English, but I insist I'm not British, because I don't have Irish, Scottish or Welsh blood in me (as far as I'm aware), and the label "British" implies that you're a mish-mash of all four nations.

Answer 3

Grieve is actually a surname of English origin and not Scottish or Irish, although their are many Grieves in Scotland and Australia.

It is said to come from Northern England and actually means "overseer" or "bailiff".

The Grieves were first found in Derbyshire, England and the name is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Hope that helps

Answer 4

You can share a last name with someone else with ancestry from just about anywhere on earth, to find out where your own ancestors came from you must research your family lineage, going back one generation at a time.

This is only the possible origin of the name, not the origin of your ancestors.

Surname: Grieves

Recorded in several spellings including: Greave, Greeve, Grieve, Greaves, Greeves, and Greves, this is an English surname. It is either locational from the former hamlet of Greaves in the parish of Preston, Lancashire, or it is topographical from residence by a thicket or grove of trees. The word and hence the surname, derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "graefe" meaning brushwood, and is first recorded at the beginning of the 13th Century. Locational surnames are usually "from" names. These were names given to people after they left their original homes to move somewhere else, as an easy means of identification. Spelling being at best erratic and local accents very thick, soon lead the developments of "sounds like" spellings. In this case early examples of the surname recordings include: Walter en le Greve in the pipe rolls of the county of Staffordshire in the year 1210, Richard del Greves in the Assize Court register for Lancashire in 1246, and Adam del Grefes in the manorial roll for the city of Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1314. Other recordings include May, the daughter of John Greaves, who is given as being a pewterer, christened at St. Dionis Backchurch, in the city of London in 1610. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Geoffrey de la Greue. This was dated 1203, in the "Pipe Rolls" of Leicestershire, during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland" 1199 - 1216.

You ask "Am I Irish or Scottish", your nationality is that of the country you were born in, or the country you live in by adoption. Your ancestry is mixed and, again,  the only way to know where your ancestors lived at any one time is to do proper research, it is not possible to pluck a country out of the air just based on a name, and imagine that you are from that country !

Answer 5

What are you? What country do you live in?

I hate to disappoint you, but genealogically or historically, if you are from ANYWHERE in the British Isles, you are Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Roman, German, Viking, etc., et al.

I myself have ancestry from each and every country in Europe; I figure that all white people in the U.S. also have ancestors from all countries.

Your best bet is to log onto www.familytreedna.com and spring for a test. They also do DNA testing for the National Geographics Genotype Program, which traces human migratory patterns.

Of course, you can go to any good library with history books of the British Isles and read about all the various invasions, from Celts to French (William the Conqueror, 1066).

Answer 6

Grieve Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: occupational name for a steward or estate manager, Middle English greve, Old English græfa. Compare Reeve and Sheriff. This word was originally distinct from Grave 1, but some confusion has occurred as a result of the close similarity in both form and meaning.

This information came from www.ancestry.com  hope it helps.