Are You 100% "English"?

Wikipedia states "The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that the earliest recorded sense of the word 'English' is "Of or belonging to the group of Teutonic peoples collectively known as the Angelcynn [...] comprising the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who settled in Britain during the 5th c.". However, the OED continues that...."

So anybody claiming to English is also admitting to be of immigrant decent.

My surname came over with the Normans in 1066 - One of Wm the Conqueror's generals shares the same surname as me, so I am of immigrant stock, too!

Just as "France" is a corruption of "Franks" a tribe that lived in Germany!

Edit : For those that claim to be "pure" Scottish, ain't no such animal, the Vikings pretty much settled all of Scotland and the Scottish surname "Wallace" is a literal translation of "Welsh" Or Irish descent, like Graham Norton, perhaps? "Irish folk music" has the same roots as Spanish Flamenco music - brought over by "gypsies" who originated in India.

Red-headed celts? No, Viking descent.

Robert the Bruce? Scottish? No, a descendant of William the Conqueror.

No, my grandparents were Italian and came from lake Como Dongo. They moved to Wales many many moons ago. My Dad was Welsh and my Mum came from Yorkshire.

A bit of a mixture really

EDIT: There is no such thing as 100% English. The Romans lived here for over 400 years and liked to spread their selves around. There was a lot of intebreeding

So anybody claiming to English is also admitting to be of immigrant decent.

My surname came over with the Normans in 1066 - One of Wm the Conqueror's generals shares the same surname as me, so I am of immigrant stock, too!

Just as "France" is a corruption of "Franks" a tribe that lived in Germany!

Edit : For those that claim to be "pure" Scottish, ain't no such animal, the Vikings pretty much settled all of Scotland and the Scottish surname "Wallace

Hi Kamran, I am part Irish part London Cockney and part apparently of the Aristocracy. My mother was so proud of maybe having blue blood until she discovered it was from 'the wrong side of the blanket' so to speak! Naughty ancestors!

everonline - good answer but Irish music was only influenced by Spanish Flamenco. The Irish pipes are a lot older and the Spanish Armada whose ships broke up on the rocks between England and Ireland previous to the battle with Drake the shipwrecked sailors introduced the guitar. Some say the origins of the Spanish Gypsies could be Rumania, due to them speaking Romany or Egypt which is where the word Gypsy comes from and then you have Moorish influence and originating from India is a more recent theory.

On top of all that the Moorish music influenced Spanish Flamenco.

Source: Spanish National linguist/Flamenco Guitar Player.

Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. Pink Floyd isn't even on there. How the hell does that happen. Some bands that shouldn't be on that list that are (or shouldnt be ahead of floyd: Velvet Underground, U2 (at least not ahead of floyd), Madonna (a liar and dumb), Cream, Sex Pistols. And I repeat, PINK FLOYD NOT ON the TOP 100, F#$* YOU ROLLING STONE

No - I have English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and French ancestory. I doubt anyone is 100%, as even Anglo Saxons emigrated to the British Isles.

As far, als I tried to understand, I'm 100% german. But some of my ancestors lived as part of the german minority in Denmark and others lived in the eastern part of Saxony an Silesia, where slavish section of populations are living.

Nothing can make me sure after hundrets of years that the official parents (especially fathers) are the real procreators. For some regions of England were discovered a proportion up to 15% of children with another father instead of the indicated one.

So, who could ever be 100% sure of his biological origin?

My surname came over with the Normans in 1066 - One of Wm the Conqueror's generals shares the same surname as me, so I am of immigrant stock, too!

Just as "France" is a corruption of "Franks" a tribe that lived in Germany!

Edit : For those that claim to be "pure" Scottish, ain't no such animal, the Vikings pretty much settled all of Scotland and the Scottish surname "Wallace" is a literal translation of "Welsh" Or Irish descent, like Graham Norton, perhaps? "Irish folk music" has the same roots as Sp

Nope I doubt it! What I know of my ancestry is that many generations ago, they were Irish, English and Scottish. One branch of my family emigrated to Australia nearly 200 years ago. No, they weren't convicts, they were among the first free settlers. I wish I had some convict ancestry, and maybe I do, and I wish I had some aboriginal ancestry, and maybe I do, but unfortunately those sorts of things were considered "shameful" only a few scant generations ago - so who really knows? Lots of things get hidden and embroidered over various generations and there weren't the records then that there are now.

I am, well according to my family tree and I've pretty much taken that back to the 1500's, although I have to make allowences for not knowing EXACTLY where I originate from.

We always thought my mothers family was Pure London, it turns out however they originated from bath mid 1800's still English though.

English going back to around 1750 on my father's side - haven't a clue about my mothers side because she was adopted. Consider myself English though.

There will be a lot of Norman, Roman, Scandinavian blood in a lot of our ancestors - not to mention the Anglo-Saxons (Dutch, German etc)..