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The term "English" derives from the Angles - before their time we were Britons: those war-like people painted in wode who lined the White Cliffs of Dover to repel the Roman invaders!
Here in Kent there is a fairly large influence from the Jutes that is probably missing elsewhere.
I never call myself European, seldom British, sometimes English - above all I'm a Man of Kent and fiercely proud of it! I have found very little "foreign" (north/west of the Medway) blood in my family going back over 400 years, and absolutely none from outside of England!
My family name derives from a local manor which existed in the 7th century.
Regards, Bill
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA