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Originally Posted by Hartlepool
So,just for clarity here AC,exactly how much English is someone with a surname like yours?
Perhaps you could be deemed a mixed up, depressed Brit/non Brit as well?
Just intrested
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My Constantine family line comes from Sheffield metal workers in a direct line going back to the 1750s. The last one working in industy there (nothing grand) was my grandfather who could make stunning silverware.
There were Constantines in Yorkshire for centures before, but I could not at the time (this was in the late 1970s) make the link. A retirement project for me to take the family history back to them.
Our family always regarded themselves as English and not British. I think most English people did have an English identity, until post WW2.