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Normans must have absorbed some of local Gallo-Romance ancestry when they invaded from France. But I doubt it is them, as they were elite who didn't leave much impact.
It is probably something native to Isles (Basque like ?)
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https://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/...dinand_2_6.pdf
By now, then, I suppose they have. They still think of themselves as being a bit different from the rest of the English though. There was a Cornish rebellion in 1549:by AD 936 the Saxon King Athelstan had confined the West Weallas to the peninsula west of River Tamar, basically the same territory that constitutes the county of Cornwall today. Cornwall, however, was not a truly independent Celtic country, but a satellite of the new and mighty Kingdom of England, a situation that ended only when the Normans conquered Britain. The English spoken by the ruling classes was replaced by Norman-French and Breton, while Latin continued to be the language of the official documents and of the Cornish Church. Moreover, Cornwall had become a more diverse place, where Cornish natives lived alongside Saxons (English), Normans, Irish, Flemish and Bretons.
http://www.cornwallinformation.co.uk...e-august-1549/
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Though the Welsh do have a lot of overlap with Bretons who seem to be a composite of some earlier DNA (the light blue) and something that came later (the dark blue):
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Is this why I'm swarthy as fuck?
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