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Post by lilja on Sept 16, 2009 23:06:36 GMT 8
I´m wondering, where are Hans´s roots? The name Hans sounds scandinavian, or maybe german also. And the name Matheson doesn`t sound very english? Does anyone know, where lived his ancestries? I´m just interested... Sorry, my english is maybe poor  |
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Post by lynette on Sept 17, 2009 0:38:09 GMT 8
I´m wondering, where are Hans´s roots? The name Hans sounds scandinavian, or maybe german also. And the name Matheson doesn`t sound very english? Does anyone know, where lived his ancestries? I´m just interested... Sorry, my english is maybe poor His whole family is from Scotland (Outer Hebrides, Isle of Lewis).  |
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Post by Gg on Sept 17, 2009 21:29:01 GMT 8
He was born on the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, but as to his roots, his paternal grandfather is from Germany. Scots-Irish on the maternal side. There is, in fact, a Scottish "Matheson" clan. There is still family back in Lewis as well as some of his parents generation and their children in England. Hans and his family moved to England before he was two.
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Post by lynette on Sept 17, 2009 22:56:21 GMT 8
He was born on the Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis, but as to his roots, his paternal grandfather is from Germany. Scots-Irish on the maternal side. There is, in fact, a Scottish "Matheson" clan. There is still family back in Lewis as well as some of his parents generation and their children in England. Hans and his family moved to England before he was two. From where did you get the information that his father's roots are in Germany? I do not question this, but I never read this .. Or that his mother has roots in Ireland. |
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Post by lilja on Sept 18, 2009 2:05:29 GMT 8
Thank you for answers! It seems, that he has very interesting roots also! I was really wondering, why an english/scottish man has such a name...=)
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Post by scarredsoul on Sept 18, 2009 12:43:31 GMT 8
Where'd the info come from, just curious
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Post by Virgil Reality on Sept 18, 2009 20:20:22 GMT 8
I'm sorry, that sounds a bit aggressive to me. Let's just say that not everything makes its way online where everyone can do a double check. Can't you just take Gg's word for it?
We certainly don't want the little bits of information that come our way to dry up because of curiousity that's a little 'excessive'.
How about "oh, that's interesting. ididn't know that before."
Apart from explaining the origins of his name, which many people have wondered about, it has no further implications on his acting career, does it?
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Post by Laura2102 on Sept 18, 2009 22:51:00 GMT 8
I didn't know about the Irish although I knew he and his dad used to sing at Irish folk festivals didn't they? Interesting as I'm in Dublin at the moment, so different to England. As for the German thing I'd guessed that from the song 'Christina' on Ado's album...the line "From an old German's daughter to the banks of the Rhine." Or something like that!
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Post by lynette on Sept 19, 2009 1:10:46 GMT 8
Like - to me this is free ... I have a large part of the family in Germany and roots in Germany (also in Italy), but I'm Czech.... I think that almost everyone has roots in different nationalities. It's nothing special.  I thought at first that Hans has some Slav ancestors, he has an incredibly high cheekbones. |
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Post by Gg on Sept 22, 2009 1:06:00 GMT 8
Well ladies, after following our young lad since 1997 I am not sure particularly where that info originated, though Ado's liner notes/lyrics seem as trustworthy a source as any, but as I believe I have mentioned I have fact verifying sources via his agency as well as published info via the industrial trades as I work in entertainment. "Matheson" isn't a hard name to find in teh Hebrides, there's a castle, and even you've never been, as I have, well, there it is, not that hard to see online. We've never gotten any particular verification that he has performed at any Irish festivals, though he was in Dublin for the shooting of TUDORS so who knows, maybe he played out at a pub or two. Wouldn't that be groovy. Many of his online profiles were written by unofficial sources who apparently got a little bit creative though. If you guys are truly concerned about my fact trustworthiness you can imdb me for legitimacy. I have neither motivation, nor time, to make this stuff up. I don't think I've ever mentioned anything that isn't in Virgil's vast archives of articles on her illustrious site, so if you want to do your research you can find it all there, I am sure. You do, of course, have to take the time to read them, and I have the advantage of having done so as they have come up, rather than having to go back and study them like I was preparing for an exam.
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I thought at first that Hans has some Slav ancestors, he has an incredibly high cheekbones.