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Originally Posted by West Ender
I'm one of a minority. I'm English as far back as the 16th century on both sides of my family, not a drop of Irish, Welsh, Scottish or anything else, and Lancashire English to boot.
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In a thread I did, based on my night time musings I worked out that if you go back to 1000 AD, we must all be 'nearly' related through blood ties.
I'm not doubting your claim, but if you average four generations per century, if we only take it back to 1600, that means you have 65,536 direct descendants. As far as I can gather the population of the county, pre-industrial revolution, was under 60,000. Therefore your ancestors may have had to interbreed, to ensure pure Lancastrian stock.
It's a wonder you haven't got one big eye, and eleven fingers and toes...or have you?
