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luckyleftyme2

(3,880 posts) Wed May 24, 2017, 02:10 PM May 2017

how many in here have Irish as well as French,Scot,English or other nationalities in their bloodlin

It seems that many Mainers have 2 or more nationalities in their bloodline:

From ancient times Irish society was organised around traditional kinship groups. These “clans” traced their origins to larger pre-surname population groupings such as Uí Briúin in Connacht, Dál gCais in Thomond, Eóghanachta in Munster, Uí Néill in Ulster , and Fir Domnann in Leinster. Within these larger groupings there tended to be one clan who through war and politics became more powerful than others for a period of time and the leaders of some were accorded the status of royalty in Gaelic Ireland. Some of the more important clans to achieve this power were Ó Conor in Connacht, Ó Brien in Thomond, MacCarthy in Desmond, Ó Neill of Tir Eógain in Ulster and Kavanagh in Leinster. The largely symbolic and somewhat mythological role of Ard Rí or High King tended to rotate among the leaders of the main royal clans.

I have English ,welsh, Irish and French at least.

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how many in here have Irish as well as French,Scot,English or other nationalities in their bloodlin (Original Post) luckyleftyme2 May 2017 OP

Due to repeated invasions tazkcmo May 2017 #1

Irish, Scandinavian English, Western Europe, smidge of European Jewish and Iberia Thomas Hurt May 2017 #2

French Huguenot, Scott, Irish, German, Native American, Polish gordianot May 2017 #3

I have Polly Hennessey May 2017 #4

I thought "scotch" was a kind of whisky... ;-) Rollo May 2017 #8

Just found out my Scottish ancestors onlyadream May 2017 #5

FIGS dweller May 2017 #6

Almost all of the above... Rollo May 2017 #7

tazkcmo

(7,419 posts)

1. Due to repeated invasions

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 02:20 PM

May 2017

Anybody from the UK or Ireland will more than likely have a mixed heritage. Couple that with migration to America along with Italians, Greeks, Germans, etc. and you may well have an even more mixed set of DNA.

In my family, our ancestors settled in Iowa in 1863, leaving County Kilkenny. One of my sisters did the family tree thing and it turns out we're a bunch of mutts with every nationality you mentioned plus some.

Thomas Hurt

(13,925 posts)

2. Irish, Scandinavian English, Western Europe, smidge of European Jewish and Iberia

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 02:23 PM

May 2017

gordianot

(15,494 posts)

3. French Huguenot, Scott, Irish, German, Native American, Polish

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 02:31 PM

May 2017

With 7% Neanderthal DNA no less so not entirely Homo Sapiens. A thorough mutt.

Polly Hennessey

(7,421 posts)

4. I have

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 02:36 PM

May 2017

Scotch, Irish, Welsh, English, and French. Surnames: Discombe, Dunham, Hennessey.

Rollo

(2,559 posts)

8. I thought "scotch" was a kind of whisky... ;-)

Reply to Polly Hennessey (Reply #4)

Wed May 24, 2017, 03:24 PM

May 2017

onlyadream

(2,203 posts)

5. Just found out my Scottish ancestors

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 02:39 PM

May 2017

Were from the Gordon Clan. That's 25% of me. The rest is German and Austrian.

dweller

(24,879 posts)

6. FIGS

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 03:17 PM

May 2017

Scottish /Irish fathers side
German/French mothers side

Rollo

(2,559 posts)

7. Almost all of the above...

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 03:22 PM

May 2017

French (Quebec), Scots-Irish. No English that I know of. The Quebequois element supposedly includes some native American, but the family has never been too certain of that, but I've always thought it must be. On the other side, Rusyn (old Ukrainian).

In other words, a mutt like most Americans. The mongrel breed that defeated Hitler's pure master race.

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