Re: Race/Ethnicity/Culture
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:12 pm
For a long time I thought I was half-Irish (down both sides) with a little bit of Cherokee (also down both sides), French (my great-grandma came from Paris), and Scottish mixed in....
Then, one day, I was reading a thread on the SCA Brewing forums about how cherries don't grow in Ireland, they grow in France.
Since my grandpa's name was Cherry (cousins to the family that owned Cherry's Ale in Waterford), that got me to thinking.... Did a little research, and sure enough, it's a Norman name.
Digging a little deeper, I found that my paternal grandma was from Ireland, but Lucas is a sept of the Lamont Clan, which was founded in the 9th-Century when the son of the King of Ulster married the daughter of the King of Alba and founded a new kingdom in Argyle, so she probably had some Scottish and/or Pict roots as well.
I have great-great-grandpas on both sides of the Civil War (one was US 45th Ohio Infantry, and the other was CS 7th Tennessee Cavalry) and possibly a third, but I don't have enough information to know whether the Lt. Cherry who fought the Ute at the Battle of Cherry Creek was an ancestor or not
After the war, both families moved to Oklahoma, where they inter-married with the Cherokee; and later moved to California
Then, one day, I was reading a thread on the SCA Brewing forums about how cherries don't grow in Ireland, they grow in France.
Since my grandpa's name was Cherry (cousins to the family that owned Cherry's Ale in Waterford), that got me to thinking.... Did a little research, and sure enough, it's a Norman name.
Digging a little deeper, I found that my paternal grandma was from Ireland, but Lucas is a sept of the Lamont Clan, which was founded in the 9th-Century when the son of the King of Ulster married the daughter of the King of Alba and founded a new kingdom in Argyle, so she probably had some Scottish and/or Pict roots as well.
I have great-great-grandpas on both sides of the Civil War (one was US 45th Ohio Infantry, and the other was CS 7th Tennessee Cavalry) and possibly a third, but I don't have enough information to know whether the Lt. Cherry who fought the Ute at the Battle of Cherry Creek was an ancestor or not
After the war, both families moved to Oklahoma, where they inter-married with the Cherokee; and later moved to California