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Demographers regard current figures as a "serious under-count", as a large proportion of Americans of British descent have a tendency to simply identify as 'American' since 1980 where over 13.3 million or 5.9% of the total U.S. population self-identified as "American" or "United States", this was counted under "not specified". [5]
Soni Razdan (born 1956), Bollywood actress, born to a British mother of German descent Carol Reed (1906–1976), film director and illegitimate son of Herbert Beerbohm Tree , (1852–1917) Oliver Reed (1938–1999), actor who had Dutch, Lithuanian and German ancestry through his grandfather Herbert Beerbohm Tree , (1852–1917)
In 1714, George I, a German Hanoverian prince, ascended to the British throne and founded the British House of Hanover. Every subsequent British monarch until Edward VII, in the 20th century, would take a German spouse. Edward VII did not take a German spouse, but his wife was a Danish princess of German ancestry.
British people of German-Jewish descent (5 C, 134 P) E. English people of German descent (4 C, 401 P) N. People from Northern Ireland of German descent (1 C, 1 P) P.
European Americans on average are: "98.6 percent Native European, 0.19 percent Native African and 0.18 percent Native American." Inferred British/Irish ancestry is found in European Americans from all states at mean proportions of above 20%, and represents a majority of ancestry, above 50% mean proportion, in states such as Mississippi ...
Some Americans may have royal descents through German immigrants who had an illegitimate descent from German royalty. [11] Due to primogeniture, many colonists of high social status were younger children of English aristocratic families who came to America looking for land because, given their birth order, they could not inherit. Many of these ...
Old Stock American (also known as Pioneer Stock, Founding Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwestern Europe whose ancestors emigrated to British America in the 17th and 18th ...
[13] [14] [15] More than 300,000 Anglo-Indians have some British ancestry, but comprise less than 0.1% of India's population. [19] [7] [10] [20] The British diaspora includes about 200 million people worldwide. [1] Other countries with over 100,000 British expatriates include the Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, and the United Arab ...