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  2. Welsh people - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, an analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people (nearly 35% of the Welsh population) have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States, with an estimated 16.3 ...

  3. Welsh settlement in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    In 1795 Welsh immigrants settled in the village of Remsen, New York where their families flourished as dairy farmers. Numerous stone houses and barns in the region attest to the Welsh heritage. Oneida County and Utica, New York became the cultural center of the Welsh-American community in the 19th century. Suffering from poor harvests in 1789 ...

  4. Welsh Americans - Wikipedia

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    The proportion of the American population with a name of Welsh origin ranges from 9.5% in South Carolina to 1.1% in North Dakota. Typically, names of Welsh origin are concentrated in the mid-Atlantic states, New England, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama and in Appalachia, West Virginia and Tennessee. By contrast, there are relatively fewer ...

  5. History of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known item of human remains discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales; it dates from about 230,000 years before present (BP) in the Lower Palaeolithic period, [1] and from then, there have been skeletal remains found of the Paleolithic Age man in multiple regions of Wales ...

  6. Madoc - Wikipedia

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    In north-west Georgia, legends of the Welsh have become part of a myth surrounding the unknown origin of a rock formation on Fort Mountain. According to the historian Gwyn A. Williams, author of Madoc: The Making of a Myth , a Cherokee tradition concerning that ruin may have been influenced by contemporaneous European-American legends of "Welsh ...

  7. Welsh (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Welsh is a surname from the Old English language given to the Celtic Britons. The surname can also be the result of anglicization of the German cognate Welsch . [ note 1 ] Welsh is a popular surname in Scotland .

  8. Thomas (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas is a common surname of English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Dutch, and Danish origin.. It derives from the medieval personal name, of Biblical origin, from Hebrew תאומא t'om'a, a byname meaning 'twin'.

  9. Welsh Tract - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the Province of Pennsylvania, a British colony in North America (today a U.S. state), settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers in the late 17th century. The region is located to the west of Philadelphia.