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My mother did a lot of work on our family tree. One branch are illiterate shropshire peasants going back hundreds of years with the odd artisan / engineer thrown in. My great aunt was the first to leave the parish. I had my genes tested as it shows both parts of the family
I share a marker with the sami people of northern lapland and more recently the usual mix of germanic and norse tribes
Sorry to be pedantic but you likely aren’t. The original English were beaten back by the anglo saxons – northern French coming from the South – and invading Danes – coming from the North and previously Norman’s. Todays English are a mix of all of that.
The latest evidence is that the post Romano Briton's who would already have a lot of mixing due to 300 hundred years of empire were not wiped out or replaced. The elite classes were the ones impacted, the peasants tended to stay put.
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/axe-the-anglo-saxons.htm
The Vikings were notorious slavers which may account for the genetic spread as much as their later settlement of parts of the country
Not done a DNA test but have done some family history stuff. For a real laugh you should see some of the guff that American family history buffs out on their trees. Links to William the conquerer, 1300s royalty and Robin Hood (same person), family who discovered the US before it is officially recorded, family (female) born in the 1700s in Newfoundland, sail to Brixham in Devon; marry and have a baby and then promtly leave both hubby and baby to sail back alone to Newfoundland and die. The ancestry website makes billions for the Church of Latter Day Saints...many seem to accept whatever hint it chucks their way.
John Kay? Bill Bryson writes about him in At Home. (p.551).
Yep thats him. I did not know that i'll take a read. My grandads family is a string of posh people he wasn't really bred to work we don't think but by the start of the money had been spent by his uncle.
It makes tracing family really easy.
Mother's side is poor Irish. Her dad Tipperary and mother Dublin (apparently the mystery is how the met, as grandad barely left Ballyporeen).
Dad's side from Portobello, his dad was a barber and the only survivor of 7 brothers (youngest). The rest didn't come back from their first trip abroad.