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Maybe, but I bet they never had pronounce it in King James English...

And it's Brichtelmeston & Hove Albion.... FC By far the hardest to pronounce team... the world has ever seen. (Except some of those from Norway).

My surname is Irish in origin, but it appears that a large group moved from Ireland around the 16th century, the most of which settled in the East Sussex area. A look at the 1841 census shows that Sussex had double the amount of any other part of the country. It may be that our ancestors...

Old cricket team mate of mine came from a village near Uckfield, he was a prime example of that.

Or possibly even Bristelmestune. That's how it appeared in the Doomsday Book. I'm not sure when it changed.

:bigwave: Hello, don't think we've met.

Something we have in common with the Welsh, then..

At the start of the 1800s the population is believed to have been under 10,000. By 1900 it was over 100,000. So if your family were here before 1800, you are part of a very unique group of people.

I've traced our family back to around 1890. Before that it seems to be divided between Brighton and the local Sussex area. I intend to find time to pursue it back further. The town experienced a spike in population after the railways, and I would imagine before that the accent would have...

Very much so, any Brighton accent became diluted upon the arrival of the railways. Many a local family tree will trace itself back to 'The Smoke'.