when did wales scotland and england come into beig and people become welsh, scottish and english?

Question

were these countries connected befor they became independant so do we all have some welsh and scots in us? i am a celt and have distant welsh connections but would be just as thrilled if i have some scots too. i feel i am going home when i go to friends in wales . proud of my distant welsh ancestry ,love some scots too!

Answer 1

Well I don't usually use wikipedia but they give you a fair start for history. Wales was an independent country up until King Edward I invaded them and took over. England today is named after the Angles a race of people who invaded Britian before and after the fall of Roman occupation of Britian and they slowly pushed the Britians to the west and North and establish small independent Kingdoms of East Anglia, Merica, Wessex, and such and those slowly formed into the country of England until 1066 when William the duke of Normandy invaded and took control of England thus ending Anglo-Saxon rule of England. Now Scotland has had many names Alba, Caledonia and now Scotland the older kingdoms were made up of many races but mostly the Picts
an ancient race we know little about as they had no written language well nothing that anyone can figure out anyways they were in "Scotland" when the Scots race left present day Ulster, Northern Ireland and settled in present day Argyll, Scotland and founded the kingdom of Dalriada which is how "Scotland" got its present name from the Scots people
they were an independent country up until the union of the Scottish crown with the English crown in 1 May 1707 and so Scotland became part of the United Kingdom. I have generalized a whole lot so I'm sure if you did better research on this topic you will find many wonderful books and articles written on these subjects. Hope I helped
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster-Scots

Well I put many links as you can see you found one of my passions the history and people of the British Isles.

Answer 2

They were all habitated by Celts at one time. England was under the Roman Empire and they brought Latin into the language. But the Romans never got past Hadrian's wall so Scotland was not influenced by the Roman Empire. Then the Germanic Anglo, Saxons and Jutes invated England and brought in another racial quality and language. The Normans from France invaded all of them. All these different mixtures is why the English language has several words frequently to mean the same thing and one word can mean something entirely different according to how it is used.

The Vikings invaded all 3 and for a time the kings of England were Danish.

In the U. S., there has been an emphasis on phonics in recent years but there is no absolutely true system of phonics in the English language. We had a chain of pharmacies many years ago called Thames, but pronounced Tames. Now some people who don't remember that call members of the family by pronouncing the th like we do in Thrusday. But in England they have a river by the same name and it is called Timms.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Erm that's history. Pretty ancient history at that. Genealogy is about researching dead ancestors.

Answer 5

The history of the British Isles is a history of the gradual domination of the English (or Anglo-Saxons/ Normans) over the original indigenous people of the British Isles and, in turn, the continuous quest for autonomy of the Welsh and Scots.
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The Scottish:

------In the first century AD, the Romans under Hadrian built a wall to keep the raiding Picts (from the Latin, meaning "painted") from entering Roman Britan. Scotland at this point is known as Caledonia.

------In the 5th century AD, Celtic immigrants from Ireland, known as the Scots, settled north of the Clyde.

------In the 9th century, King of the Scots, Kenneth MacAlpine, subdued the Pictish kingdom and consolidated the Picts and the Scots. By the 10th century, this area came to be known as Scotland. After the Normans invaded England in 1066, many fleeing Anglo-Saxons settled in Lowland Scotland. Similarly, many Norman French made their way there.

------Edward the I would try to conquer Scotland in the 12th century, but failed to do so (as inaccurately depicted in Mel Gibson's "Braveheart"). From this time until the Succession of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne (as James I) in 1603, the English would continuously tried to exert their political will over Scotland and be repulsed. Similarly, Scottish raids across the border would lay waste to Northern England.

------In 1707, the Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland (along with Wales, which normally goes unmentioned) into the United Kingdom, although the Scots still contend that they were unequal partners. The defeat of Jacobite forces at the Battle of Cullodeen in 1746 effectively subdued any movement for Scottish independence until 1999 when the first Scottish Parliament met in modern times. The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), which is seeking independence as a republic for the Scots, is one of the major political parties in contemporary Scotland.

Wales:

------The first archeological evidence of people living in Wales is from the Lower Paoeolithic Age. Around 5,000 years ago, many settlers came to Wales from the European Continent and perhaps Ireland. By about 1,000 BC, Wales was part of an area settled by the Celts that extended throughout much of Northern Europe. The Greeks called these people Keltoi, the Romans, Celta.

------By AD 616, invading Anglo-Saxon people had effectively cut the Welsh off from other Celtic peoples in the Battle of Chester. They soon began to think of themselves as a separate nation. In a poem dated AD 633, the word "Cymry" appears, referring to Wales. "Welsh" means "foreign" in Anglo-Saxon. The Welsh, or are least those who speak Welch, prefer to call themselves "Cymry", their country "Cymru", and their language "Cymraeg".

------IN AD 855, King Rhodr Mawr ("Mawr" means "the Great") warded off a Danish attack, but at his death his sons swore allegiance to the English King, Alfred the Great, because they needed his military protection.

-----After the Norman Conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror set up three semi-independent earldoms to govern Wales: Hereford, Shrewsbury, and Chester as well as a military zone, known as the Marches.

------In 1294, Edward I established a court system in Wales, but the Welsh were not allowed to elect their own representatives to Parliament. In 1301, Edward the I awarded his eldest son and heir to the throne with the title of Prince of Wales, signifying Welch dependence upon England.

------The Welsh would continue to revolt against English rule until Henry VII's victory in 1485 at Bosworth Field.

------Henry VIII integrated Wales into the English legal and political system, giving political representation to Wales in the "Laws in Wales" Act. Of course, the Tudors came from Wales.

-----Until 1967, England and Wales were one legal entity. The election of the Labour government in 1997 included a commitment to hold a referendum concering the establishment of a separate Welsh Assembly (or Parliament).

England:

2000 years ago, Roman General Julius Caesar subdued local British tribes in Kent. In AD 43, Emperor Claudius with 40,000 troops defeated the native chieftains. Romans divided what is now England into four areas, centered around London, Cirencester, York, and Lincoln. During this time, an uprising under the East Anglican Queen Boadicae was soundly defeated.

After the Romans left following the fall of the Roman Empire, between AD 440 and 650, the Saxons and then the Angles arrived from Northern Germany, pushing the indigenous Britains into Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland or else absorbing the native population into their tribes. The Jutes subsequently arrived from Demark.

------In AD 800 a series of Viking invasions terrorized Britain.

------In 1066, perhaps the most successful Viking invasion of all occurred when a Frenchified Viking, William of Normandy invaded England. Eventually, the Anglo-Saxons would also absorb the invading Normans into English society, although it took most of the Middle Ages to do so.

Admittedly, all of this is history (as Granny Toad says), but it is helpful to know the history of a nation or people to further understand that small portion of it that deals with an individual lineage, genealogy. Furthermore, I know a few Scots that don't think of it as ancient history at all.