I have built up my family tree over the last ten years and reached back to 1600-1800. There are no crowned heads, slave traders, criminals, artists, warriors or saints but, at least, I have nothing to hide. They were mostly husbandmen, yeoman, business people and craftspeople, with a sprinkling of small rural landowners. There are many hardworking women with numerous household skills, long lost. They were all married, all law abiding and hard working people, a mix of Saxons/Angles (40%) and the native (Beaker) people of Britain (60%). There is a smattering of Scottish (16%) and Danish (5%) but nothing to set one’s heart racing or to confound one’s sense of being southern and East Anglian ‘English’.
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