{"id":1307,"date":"2009-02-04T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2009-02-04T07:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:20:33","slug":"do-you-know-where-your-ancestors-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Do you know where your ancestors came from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always thought that racism was not just morally repugnant but logically absurd since, if you go back a few generations in most people’s families, you find yourself in a different race or ethnicity or nationality. Ultimately, of course, we can all trace our ancestry back to tribes in Africa.
\nIn the case of the Darlingtons – my family on my father’s side (my mother was Italian) – I am advised by a Darlington (no direct relative) in Australia that the name may well be linked directly to the Angeln<\/a> inhabitants in the northern region of England.
\nMy Australian Darlington friend had his DNA submitted to the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project mapping the distribution of the human race around the planet. This has indicated the origin of a common ancestor located in the region of northern Germany\/southern Denmark approximately 5,000 years ago. All subsequent males that share this DNA haplogroup with modern English surnames are most likely to be related to this one person.
\nAs to when later ancestors crossed the channel to England, this is unknown. It could have been with the Angeln ‘invasion’, or any one of the subsequent Danish, Scandinavian, Viking, Norman or later ‘invasions’.
\nThe information is tenuous as the application of surnames happened only later in the 13th-14th centuries. Of particular interest to me, however, is the fact that Edward the Confessor<\/a>‘s own confessor was in fact a friar known as Jean de Derlington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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