Mixed Norman and Celtic blood

[Coemgen]

Go far back enough, we're all from Kenya anyway!

Even further back and we're all from a small, warm pool of amino acids !

[Ozman1944]

Heinz here too; I'm probably decended from the infamous Scot, Fred Stewart the street sweeper, or the Welsh Bill Harris the illustrious washroom attendant.
Don't really care.

[Glen C]

I got my Y-DNA 67 markers back last year, and like the original Chisholm's I'm a Norman/Viking. A lot of Normans came to Scotland with David I. After all he was not supposed to become king, and was raised in the English/Norman court. He had no power base in Scotland so he brought along alot of people that he trusted. The Bruces, Sinclairs, Frasers, Chisholms, Fitzalan (Stuart) were given lands and scattered around the country.

[macwilkin]

I got my Y-DNA 67 markers back last year, and like the original Chisholm's I'm a Norman/Viking. A lot of Normans came to Scotland with David I. After all he was not supposed to become king, and was raised in the English/Norman court. He had no power base in Scotland so he brought along alot of people that he trusted. The Bruces, Sinclairs, Frasers, Chisholms, Fitzalan (Stuart) were given lands and scattered around the country.

Don't forget another Norman family, the Comyns.

T.

[Glen C]

Don't forget another Norman family, the Comyns.

T.

How can anyone forget the Comyns! Forgive me, I just named afew off the top of my head!

[macwilkin]

How can anyone forget the Comyns! Forgive me, I just named afew off the top of my head!

No worries, Glen. :mrgreen:

T.

[ForresterModern]

Full blooded West Virginian hillbilly, descended from the usual melange of mysterious heritages. The Foster name can be traced back to Flemish origins when the Forrestiere's invaded britain with William the Conqueror as his right hand man during the Norman Conquests, then set up shop in the Lowlands of Scotland and are spread across the south from Northumberton to Edinburgh to Stirling all the way up to the Isle of Skye (by report). We can trace our Foster name back 9 or 10 generations to the firrst one to arrive on these shores in the early 1700's and set up shop in Virginia, but not before that. The Foster family has stayed nearly exclusively in Virginia/West Virginia ever since then, with us being able to find family cemetaries in a couple different counties full of relatives. Since that first Foster immigrant there has been an admixture of other Scots, Scot-Irish, English, Cherokee, and German to get down to my generation, then my 2 older kids are more German mix from their mother (my first wife's parents were first generation americans of german immigrants), with my new son being half Dutch (my new wife is full bloooded dutch from fullblooded dutch immigrants). So when you start doing the math I am probably a lot less Scottish than everything else, and my kids definitely so. But it is the name and bloodlines that keep me scottish, especially since that is the only bloodline I can trace back 9 or 10 generations.

[McFarkus]

Also a mutt. My Gordon's were Norman's as well

[Master Boid]

I'm a literal mass of 'British' DNA, having Welsh, Scottish and English blood in my veins for certain. Most likely some Norman or Anglo-Saxon in there too somewhere no doubt.

Brittany was in fact founded by emigrants from the place I now live (Devon) which also has a damn fine Brythonic history. A place in Brittany called Domnonée backs this up.

But, as we all know, a humans a human no matter where you're from or what your heritage.

[Woodsheal]

The "Celts" were not a "race", but a variety of peoples across Europe who adopted a certain similar culture and group of languages, mostly as a result of trade (people in Europe didn't "migrate" nearly as much as once thought by historians. The various DNA studies support this).
The term "Celtic" refers to this shared culture and language family, and has nothing to do with bloodlines....