St George

[HFJL2020]

st george is not english he s supposed to come from turkey

[emmie]

that's right, but he has been England's patron saint for a long time.....

[Sqad]

I hope he isolated for 10 days.

[emmie]

lol

[davebro]

He had a pretty rough time of it by all accounts. What's your question?

[Hopkirk]

I don't think England existed when he was alive.

[aelmpvw]

i'm not entirely convinced that the dragon existed either

[brainiac]

Is his lappy working okay, though?

[emmie]

England as such probably didn't, but there were people here long before the Romans came.

[Paigntonian]

And?

[emmie]

several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD is regarded as the start of recorded history although some historical information is available from before then.. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints ...

[mjwman]

He had the first kebab skewer

[Hopkirk]

Boris has Turkish origins.

[emmie]

he does, and American...and more besides.

[emmie]

Prime Minister Johnson’s paternal grandfather was of one half Turkish descent, possibly one quarter Turkish and one quarter Circassian. The other half of his ancestry was Swiss-German and English. His Turkish family were Muslim.

[pastafreak]

I remember reading an article about 10 years ago...a random group of British folk had their DNA tested. Many had some Turkish DNA...it was apparently the most common.

[emmie]

and French, like NIgel Farage who is supposed to be descended from the French Hugenots. and i believe has German grandparents.

[davebro]

Wiki sez his parents were from Greek descent - where does Turkey come into it?

[emmie]

i reckon though can't prove yet, we had Irish ancestors on both sides of the family. Though it would take some money to find out, and the difficulty in my dad having the same name as his dad.

[davebro]

^^^ George that is.

[emmie]

St George was born in Cappadocia, in modern day Turkey to an army soldier and a mother from Lydda, now known as Lod in Palestine. After his father’s death, George’s mother took her infant son back to her home town of Lydda where he grew up to serve as an officer in the Roman army, like his father