My recent ancestral find

[TheOfficialBren]

Here, here, Nathan!

Geneology and biology often reveal some very interesting (and at times surprising) things.
A good friend of mine, a young African-American man by outward appearance, is actually half-caucasion (of maternal Spanish descent).
In the end we are all homo-sapiens.

I really enjoy reading about the different folks on here. It is really interesting and quite enlightening and enriching. Thank you, rabble, for sharing.

(sorry for the derail)

[Roderick Powell]

It is now 3 Am in Dorset Uk So I am going for a wild guess. In Dorset the Woodheads lived near a wooded headland.

I would guess Rockheads lived near a Rocky headland or outcrop. Could be anywhere.

Original location of family might give a clue Roddy

[Roderick Powell]

A sea captain from Poole in dorset ,another Captain Cook came home with a dark eyed spanish maiden.

Someone suggested I look Cypriot. Some suggest my cousin is an Indian Lady.

My mother and thee sisters had Jet black hair. The eldest sister was Blond.

My cousin married a blond of Scandenavian extraction who can wear the Johnson Tartan.

One daughter is blonde, two are dark haired like their four aunts. Roddy

[Roderick Powell]

Due to the interest of the Rabble,I understand sea raiders mixed the local geneology by their acts of rape and pillage on the south coast.

Dorset was raided by the Vikings burning Wareham.

The Portugese white slave traders raided the old village of Ringstead.Much of the village has
dissapeared.

Scottish Pivateers were wrecked in Warbarrow following the spanish amada. They were of red headed viking decsent.

The old fishing family was evicted by the war office in 1943 as the area was used for the training for American landing in France in 1944.


Further down the coast a village suffered spanish raids. Much Spanish blood in the village.

I met a gentleman from Wales, now living in Cornwall, he sounds welsh, but his father came from Northern Spain, to Wales.

Weymouth was packed with G I S for D Day embarkation.

There are coloured locals in weymouth born nine months after the landings.

A friend of mine went over with an artillery unit on D. Day plus one.The landing beach was carpeted with the bodies of Afro americans who had fallen on the beach.

My father has the Welsh name Powell, his grandfather lived in london and his son moved to Swanage a sea side holiday town with fishermen, in 1926

The holiday catering labour all came to Swanage from Wales.

When I was a kid we could have migrated to australia for ten pounds a head.

The old time big fishing vessel skippers had a house in every port and they ,and their families followed the fish around the coast every year.Food for thought. Roddy

[McClef]

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