Question to all New Worlders:Do you have colonial ancestry?

[CordedWhelp]

No. I’m a new-worlder, but immigrants 1850’s plus. Polish side 1900’s.

[Redmar]

No. I am a first generation new worlder. Somehow I get Australian & American genetic communities though, including my own state.

Are first generations Anglo-Australians common?

[Creoda]

Are first generations Anglo-Australians common?

Fairly common because after WWII there was an assisted migration scheme that brought over loads of British (also quite a few Dutch btw) for about 25 years. A large number of famous Australians come from those 'ten pound poms', though you wouldn't know. Most Anglo-Australians have 19th century colonial ancestry though, as you'd expect.

[Erronkari]

Not properly “colonial”.
My first ancestor from the Old World came the most líkely around 1830… (independence was in 1830).

[Rafael Passoni]

No.

[Rædwald]

Yes, nearly 100%

[Redmar]

Fairly common because after WWII there was an assisted migration scheme that brought over loads of British (also quite a few Dutch btw) for about 25 years. A large number of famous Australians come from those 'ten pound poms', though you wouldn't know. Most Anglo-Australians have 19th century colonial ancestry though, as you'd expect.

Was aware about the Dutch assisted migrations. There is also a sizable Dutch community in Canada and to some extent the US. Notably Frisian farmers and Northern Dutch in general. Is there a difference between where both groups migrated from? I would expect most colonial Anglo-Australians to be from South-Eastern England.

[Andullero]

No. I am a first generation new worlder. Somehow I get Australian & American genetic communities though, including my own state.

Source: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

[Creoda]

Was aware about the Dutch assisted migrations. There is also a sizable Dutch community in Canada and to some extent the US. Notably Frisian farmers and Northern Dutch in general. Is there a difference between where both groups migrated from? I would expect most colonial Anglo-Australians to be from South-Eastern England.

It might be true that the colonial migration was a bit more Southeastern English overall, afterall the Aussie accent clearly comes from the SE English/London accent, and the First Fleets left from Portsmouth. The colonial settlers also had more rural people coming out here to set up farms, but even then they were mostly from Industrial cities and towns across England where most of the population was, just like the post-war migrants. Anglo-Australians are more pan-English than Anglo-Americans, who are mostly Southern.

On the Dutch, my former local soccer club the next suburb over used to be Ringwood Wilhelmina, set up in the 50s by migrants and playing in orange.

[Redmar]

It might be true that the colonial migration was a bit more Southeastern English overall, after all the Aussie accent clearly comes from the SE English/London accent, and the First Fleets left from Portsmouth. The colonial settlers also had more rural English coming out here to set up farms, but even then they were mostly from Industrial cities and towns across England where most of the population was, just like the post-war migrants. Anglo-Australians are more pan-English than Anglo-Americans, who are mostly Southern.

On the Dutch, my former local soccer club the next suburb over used to be Ringwood Wilhelmina, set up in the 50s by migrants and playing in orange.

The Aussies strike me as a really English people. But of course more laid back and easygoing with a great sense of honour, which they owe to their English heritage