Of humble birth or origins.

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.    plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn^†; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.    rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked^†.    barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque^†; cockney, born within sound of Bow bells.    underling, menial, subaltern.    ... meer laten zien