hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Oh well, Bob comes from the antipodes, which is rather remote from North
> Britain.
True, but I'm learning a lot from you two :-)
> Anyway the Scots and the "Northern English" are North British, so
> Picts, Scots, Gwyddels, Romano-British, or whatever, we are all North
> British!
I like this idea and probably closer to reality. An idea with
possibilities for the future too.
> "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>news:dgn8u7$ntq$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>"allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>news:432be3a2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>"Bob and Doris Jones" <bobianjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>news:s3LWe.49548$FA3.41768@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>... I am publi****ng it as I go along so there will be a need for
>>>>>>constant updates.
>>>>
>>>>IMHO the huge percentage of red-haired people
>>>>
>>>>>in Brigantia is a direct genetic legacy of the Picts (the highest
>>>>>percentage of anywhere in the world).
>>>
>>>
>>>Allan, whoever published this article was greatly mistaken. In fact
there
>>
>>is
>>
>>>an undeniable Gwyddelic contribution to the gene pool in Brigantia.
>>
>>Gwyddel
>>
>>>not in the sense of Irish, but in the sense of the pre-Beaker people
>>>population of Neolythic farmers. The Gwyddels were almost as old as the
>>>Picts and the Iberians, but they were neither Picts nor Iberians.The so
>>>called "red haired" people is an old "red herring" that goes back to
the
>>>18th. century antiquarians.It is just rubbish.There is no evidence of a
>>>Pictish population outside Scotland.
>>
>>Quite so. I agree with you. That's exactly what I've been saying. It
was
>>Bob who posted the above not me.
>>
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>Allan
>>
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