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Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] R1b1c7 in England
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:28:09 EDT
In a message dated 6/3/2007 4:52:32 P.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:
John McLaughlin writes:
>But I have yet to see a single Scottish clan of any size that is >composed
primarily of NW Irish.
How about us Ewings, John? I am personally of a pretty good size without
even considering the other 39 of us Ewings who are R1b1c7 Scots. Are you
suggesting we are not a clan or that we are not Scottish? (I wouldn't be
offended on either account--all forty of us could be descended from a single
NW Irish NPE in Donegal from 1610, for all I know.)
David - we touched on that discussion once before. I think some of the
extended groups like your Ewings could be more extended families descended from a
common ancestor than clans. I was really thinking of the traditional
highland clans when I said that though - the McDonalds, MacGregors, Campbells,
McLeods - ones with a definite clan structure, chieftain, royal line, definite
territory, and followers. I don't see the NW Irish modal predominating in any
of these. While there are MacDonalds who match the modal, they're only a
handful compared to the clan as a whole.
John
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