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From: "Eric Olson" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] European R1a and India
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:20:49 -0700


I understand,

Yet you remain R1b1c*, not R1a, as we were discussing a possible route of
Indian R1a into Western Europe. That would imply an Indian father, not
mother.

Regards,
Eric.


> [Original Message]
> From: Dennis Wright <>
> To: <>; <>
> Date: 6/20/2006 8:11:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [DNA] European R1a and India
>
> > I was thinking more in terms of colonization, not trading or
> > pirating. The
> > Portuguese had actual colonies in India as early as 1498. The English,
> > French, Dutch and Danish followed shortly thereafter. That is,
Europeans
> > were living in India among the Indians. Did they intermarry?
> >
> > Eric
>
> I am the result of one of these 'unions'.
> In 1795, John Herbert Harington, had, by a 'lady of colour', Frances
Sophia
> Harington. She married Capt Francis Irvine, son of Alexander Irvine, 18th
> Laird of Drum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. They are my gggg-parents and I am
> 1/64 Indian blood!!
>
> A Lady of Colour was a polite term used in the 19th century for a woman
> native to the country, a lady of Indian descent. It was not uncommon for
> English gentlemen when in India or Africa to take a mistress from the
local
> population.
>
> The East India Company was founded in 1601 as a trading company and
expanded
> into one of the largest administrative units the world has known. This
> civil service, as in effect it was, was divided into grades such as
> merchants, factors, writers and cadets. To protect their interests in
> India, the company had an army and a navy as well as the merchant navy
> manning their trading ships. During the period from 1790 to 1860, some
> 20,000 young gentlemen entered the companys army service.
>
> Regards
> Dennis Wright
> Irish Type III
> 6PWCD
> R1b1c*
>


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