ancestors

I thought I was a Northerner, born in Hull, trained as a teacher outside Liverpool, and only moving to Suffolk as "it was the furthest south I was prepared to come", in 1977, finally settling in Eye, Suffolk, where I still live. In 2011 my brother in law started looking at my side of the family tree and found that, on my dad's side, the family had moved from Halesworth Suffolk (about 20 miles away) in the 1850s, tracing ancestors back to Eye, Diss and surrounding villages. For a lot of the time, in the mid eighteenth century, ancestors came from Stoke by Nayland. My mother's family came from Portsmouth, but looking back, some of her ancestors came from Stoke by Nayland at about the same time in the eighteenth century. As if that was not enough, one of my friends from school, who originated from Wakefield, also has ancestors who came from Eye. Mr Andrew F