Have you ever done a DNA heritage test?

[ŽižkovClaret]

I'm 7% Klobasa, 15% Pivo, 12% Gulas, and 100% daft

[JohnMac]

Not DNA but family tree related and my Cousin started looking into this during lockdown. We are MacAlpine and always particular about the spelling and emphasise the Mac and capital A.

It turns out as he went back through the generations the spelling was down to whoever recorded this in Parish Registers.

We have our spelling plus, McAlpine, MacAlpin, McAlpin and another which I've forgotten.

It matters not as Kenneth MacAlpine was the person who was crowned!

[IanMcL]

It's quite specific, reading between the lines. The Angles (and Saxons) came in after the Romans left, so about 500-600 AD. Neither the English name nor the Englisg people existed before then; the residents were Britons. So that's the starting point. The Vikings came from about 800 AD, but they have their own category so "English" must have been defined by then. I suggest the later part of that period, otherwise the various tribes of Britons (pushed out to be Welsh and Cornish) wouldn't have had time to get clear. So let's say 700 AD is when "English" was defined for this purpose.

English is probably the most mongrel of European races, so it is all a bit bogus, really. As I suspect you're implying.

So the locals were the Britons (agree) and they are now the Welsh and Cornish. So everyone not Welsh or Cornish are boat people, economic migrants!
Rwanda with the lot of them!

[dsr]

So the locals were the Britons (agree) and they are now the Welsh and Cornish. So everyone not Welsh or Cornish are boat people, economic migrants!
Rwanda with the lot of them!

But before you get too excited, the tribe of Scots came from Ireland. By boat. See you on the flight to Rwanda

https://ruralhill.net/heritage/#:~:text ... 20500%20AD.

[IanMcL]

But before you get too excited, the tribe of Scots came from Ireland. By boat. See you on the flight to Rwanda

https://ruralhill.net/heritage/#:~:text ... 20500%20AD.

Only the Scots. There are some Gaels to export too. Just us Picts then, left for a quiet life with our mate up.

[Tricky Trevor]

I might get this done. I have 4 branches of the family tree going back from early 1700s to the Irish connection leaving for Haslingden because of the famine, 1847.
So at great-great grandfather level I have, Swinford(Ire), Leith(Scotland), Newcastle & Sunderland. We are all just inherited DNA so I think I’ll give it a do.

[Mayoclaret]

I might get this done. I have 4 branches of the family tree going back from early 1700s to the Irish connection leaving for Haslingden because of the famine, 1847.
So at great-great grandfather level I have, Swinford(Ire), Leith(Scotland), Newcastle & Sunderland. We are all just inherited DNA so I think I’ll give it a do.

I live about 5 miles from Swinford in Mayo TT, happy to help if I can eg if you were after any Gravestone photos etc relating to your Irish branch.

[Tricky Trevor]

I live about 5 miles from Swinford in Mayo TT, happy to help if I can eg if you were after any Gravestone photos etc relating to your Irish branch.

Thanks for your kind offer but we’ve been up and scoured the cemetery, which couldn’t be better laid out, sadly with no luck. The family name back then was Tonnery but not a one to be found.

[Mayoclaret]

Thanks for your kind offer but we’ve been up and scoured the cemetery, which couldn’t be better laid out, sadly with no luck. The family name back then was Tonnery but not a one to be found.

,No problem TT. Tonnery is an unusually rare name, there are plenty of graves bearing the name Tunney in Swinford and surrounding cemeteries which may be a variation stemming from the original Tonnery.That isn't much use I'm afraid. Good luck.

[Tricky Trevor]

,No problem TT. Tonnery is an unusually rare name, there are plenty of graves bearing the name Tunney in Swinford and surrounding cemeteries which may be a variation stemming from the original Tonnery.That isn't much use I'm afraid. Good luck.

It was a strange period. Left Ireland as Tonnery, next generation in Haslingden were Tondry and my Grandma was Tondra. I put it all down to the awful handwriting back then and mis-reading.

[Bosscat]

It was a strange period. Left Ireland as Tonnery, next generation in Haslingden were Tondry and my Grandma was Tondra. I put it all down to the awful handwriting back then and mis-reading.

They say a lot of names were spelled differently when entering the States through Ellis Island because many of the migrants couldnt write so were written by the people processing them.

I would imagine the same happened here too

[Longford Claret]

Another one here with Swinford connections. I had one grandfather from Swinford and another grandfather from Foxford. Live in Tarmonbarry now , just by the River Shannon. Grew up in Accrington.

[HagridsHut]

What website did you use for the DNA test ?