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Post by zibetha on Mar 13, 2021 15:06:39 GMT -5
hi my late mother who died last year was a quick . she lived in penzance. heamoor and st buryans. her name was enid Maureen quick. she had several siblings. she was married 3 times. first one Allen (me) next Richards then curry. I will post name etc but I will have to consult my sister . I don t know if its prevalent in the quick family but she had a very rare blood group which I have AB neg. I know the basque people have a high rate of neg blood. I will put more info on if needed. Thanks for posting, Marlie. AS I meander into working on my DNA test results, things get more interesting. I do get Iberian ethnicity estimates, but my blood type is A+ and pretty common. Not the one you want to have in Covid season, it seems. Results of my mtDNA test are slim so far, but 2 of the 11 close matches are from Spain and Brazil. It is too far back to work out. I am still trying to figure the many Quick family matches that I get. Zib
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Post by cornwall on Feb 17, 2023 2:49:47 GMT -5
The Mousehole attack is a hoary old one. We've never found any evidence of any DNA from that event, from shipwrecked sailors, pirates or general intruders.
To leave a Y-DNA line, you need to settle and get comfortable. Attackers don't have time to leave any DNA (or if they should do so the babies likely would not survive).
Yes there is strong evidence of interchange with Iberia during the Bronze Age running from 2000-1200 BC. This was due to traders settling along the major tin trade route from Cornwall to Spain and Portugal then the Mediterranean. Cornwall has far more Iberian R-DF27 than any other part of Britain. Conversely Spain picked up British Y-DNA in the same period.
All this is far too early to show up as "Spanish genes". We do know of one Middle Ages example where a Jewish man escaped from Spain just before 1500AD and ended up in Cornwall. In general however, there are no "Spanish genes".
Roughly speaking, Cornish Y-DNA is about 47% ancient British/Beaker, 30% Germanic, 10% Danish/Viking, 5% paleolithic hunter, 8% other things. A great deal of rare YDNA has washed up in Cornwall and it is well worth getting your YDNA (Y chromosome test) tested if you have a Cornish surname.
JF, CORNWALL DNA project
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Post by donne on Feb 17, 2023 13:07:11 GMT -5
Hi JF, I do recall contributing to this thread back in 2016 - see azazella.proboards.com/post/26277 if you are interested - with a theory about my own family and a possible Iberian connection. Since then I have taken autosomal and Y-DNA tests (yes - I am a member of the Cornwall project!) which have effectively scotched any such theory. Instead I seem to have much stronger Scandinavian links, with haplogroup I-M253. With my paternal line established in Camborne in the 16th century, it seems to me that a possible migration route is from Ireland to the north coast of Cornwall of settlers with Danish/Viking heritage.
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Post by cornwall on Feb 17, 2023 17:41:39 GMT -5
There are very many misleading statements out there regarding the origins of minerals and of remains, which tend to be replicated by subsequent researchers. For example, few people are aware that Cornwall was the site of the world's first gold rush. Most of the golden items in Ireland from the Bronze Age, and some in Central Europe, are Cornish gold. Yet there is little left in Cornwall, the surface gold was all picked out by the Beaker People, probably by 2200 BC. The same was probably true of the surface copper, which is used in much greater quantities than tin. Does Cornwall have copper? You bet. In the early 1800s it had the greatest copper mines in the world, supplying the Industrial Revolution. The copper was actually under the tin as all the ore closer to the surface was gone. The other major sources of copper for the Beaker people, who almost completely replaced the earlier Neolithic population of Britain, were (from 2400BC-1800BC) Ross Island from a lake near Killarney. Copper is relatively common, and many other smaller mines were operating in the early Bronze Age. No other substantial sites are known until Great Orme in North Wales came online, from 1800BC to 1400BC. .
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