Blackpool's gene pool ... Scottish DNA?

Vince McLean

Vince McLean

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The Christmas train home from Euston back in the 1980s. Packed out, we'd got a table and amazingly the two other seats remained unoccupied. Train starts moving, the carriage doors burst open and two enormous, aggressive and completely pissed Glaswegian squaddies stagger along. McEwans Export cans are slammed onto the table & they sit down.

They snap open a couple, and start to assess their surroundings.

Where are you fra'? growls the guy next to me. ....... England I reply. ... Aye says he, but where exactly? ......... Blackpool I respond. ........ Blackpool says he, incredulously, ....... that's 'no' in England, that's in Scotland ....... here, have a can of beer.

The point I'm making is the connection between Scotland and Blackpool ... & does the town's gene pool contain a high proportion of Scottish DNA?
Is the perception that many Scots (esp Glaswegians) are boisterous & hard as nails correct, or is it just stereotypical tosh?

Does it explain our fans excellent volume and passion?
 
My paternal forebears are all Welsh, Vince. However my matrilineal line goes back to Clan MacLean. A few years ago, I visited the imposing Duart Castle beside the Sound of Mull and felt a great affinity with it and the Isle of Mull itself.

There's definitely a strong connection between Blackpool and Scotland - long may it continue.

Best regards

'Virtue Mine Honour'
 
Trammo said:
Strong evidence by examining spending habits shows a definite link between Scotland and the short arms long pockets Yorkshire misers.
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Having worked in pubs and hotels the tightest people in Britain are from the South East of England. They give nothing away!!
 
No Scottish in me, Sandgrownun with a bit of both South Yorkshire (Mothers side) and Newcastle (Dads side) going back a few generations though. 100% English thank fuck.
 
Raging_Bull said:
No Scottish in me, Sandgrownun with a bit of both South Yorkshire (Mothers side) and Newcastle (Dads side) going back a few generations though. 100% English thank fuck.
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I thought I was English and Northern Irish until my Dad told me a family story just after my mum passed away 3 years ago.
He told me his Great Grandfather was a Norwegian Fisherman shipwrecked of the coast of South Port and never went home and settled in the area. On this I did a heritage DNA and found out I have not 1 drop of English in me and I’m 41% scandanavian.
Chance of you being 100% English is near impossible

49.3%
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
1 Genetic Group

41.1%
Scandinavian

9.6%
3 other ethnicities
4 Genetic Groups
 
Isn't Blackpool the second largest town in the WORLD for it's transient population?! 🤔 I'm sure I read that somewhere! So most people that live in Blackpool weren't born here. In my case it's certainly true...my family moved here from East Lancs in 1968. However, I look upon Blackpool as MY town.
I think the Scottish thing might be right though...like Liverpool has a strong Irish connection.
I think of all it's transient population Scots probably make up the biggest percentage. Not certain, but I reckon so....
 
Satsuma said:
Isn't Blackpool the second largest town in the WORLD for it's transient population?! 🤔 I'm sure I read that somewhere! So most people that live in Blackpool weren't born here. In my case it's certainly true...my family moved here from East Lancs in 1968. However, I look upon Blackpool as MY town.
I think the Scottish thing might be right though...like Liverpool has a strong Irish connection.
I think of all it's transient population Scots probably make up the biggest percentage. Not certain, but I reckon so....
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Tranmere number 1 surely ? Followed by any big city in USA, Australia, China, Russia , Japan.🤔
 
Is that shit hole the jagged thistle still in blackpool.
I remember the shops on front selling tat especially the tartan flat cap with false ginger hair at the back
The good old days when nobody give a fuck
 
True for me, my mum and I were both born in Blackpool but my Granny and all her family moved from Falkirk to Blackpool after the war.
 
Mancs both sides, La Levi Geordies both sides with a mix of Glasgow and Irish, German and American ancestors.
 
I learned more about Blackpool in the 20th century from talking to Glaswegian old ladies when I lived up North, than I ever did living in the town!
 
Both my parents were Brummies, they came to Blackpool in 1961 (thank God)
Go back further on my Dads side and there is a trace of Scots ancestry.
No idea on my mothers side.
 
You only have to look at how much Scottish currency is in circulation round here to see the links we have. Try giving a Southern holiday maker some of it in their change and they look at you as if you’re trying to fleece them!
Oh, and I reckon that man for man they’re the best tippers I have!
 
I'm currently working on the Dounreay Power Station near Thurso and both my wife and I are in a Scottish Pipe Band in Chorley, but live in Poulton.
😁
 
My sister married a guy from Dundee, he was stationed at RAF Weeton.
They had 4 children and ,of course, they were 50% Scottish.
It's possible that other women, who, like my sister, married Scotsmen who were stationed locally.
My genes are a mixture of Yorkshire, NE England with some Scottish in there, Cornwall and Devon.
Thankfully, with all these strains in me, I was born in Blackpool.😃
 
Did an Ancestry DNA in November, and despite my Dad, his , Dad, and Maternal Grandparents, all being born in Stalmine and Fleetwood and a few in Batley, and my mum from Scotland.

This is what came back.........

Scotland 53%
England and North West Europe 19%
Ireland 14%
Wales 7%
Denmark&Sweden 7%

And thousands of cousins in Yorkshire, Scotland, America, Down under.
 
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