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ENGLAND

U.K.

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England, U.K.

Introduction

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom. It accounts for more than 83% of the total UK population, occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. Elsewhere, it is bordered by the North Sea, Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and English Channel.

England is named after the Angles (Old English genitive case, "Engla" - hence, Old English "Engla Land"), one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th centuries. This is also the origin of its Latin name, Anglia. Originally, England was a geographical term rather than a state, until the separate kingdoms were unified under the king of Wessex in the 10th century. Briefly, the unified England became part of a Danish empire under Cnut, then regained independence for a short period, before being conquered by the Duke of Normandy in 1066.

The next few hundred years saw England as an important part of expanding and dwindling empires based in France, with the "King of England" being a subsidiary title of a succession of French-speaking Dukes of territories in (what is now) France. Only when English kings realised that their losses in France meant that England was now their richest and most important possession did they accept the same "nationality" and language as their subjects in England. They used England as a source of troops to enlarge their personal holdings in France for many years

(Hundred Years War); in fact the English crown did not relinquish its last foothold on mainland France until Calais was lost during the reign of Mary Tudor (the Channel Islands are still crown dependencies, though not part of the UK).

Wales, under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Act 1535. Wales shared a legal identity with England as the joint entity originally called England and later England and Wales.

When the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the Acts of Union 1707, both England and Scotland lost their political (though not legal) identities. The union changed its name twice: first on the merger with Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland") and then with the secession of the southern Irish counties to form the Republic of Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"). Throughout these changes, "England" retained a separate legal identity from its partners (with a separate legal system from those in Northern Ireland and Scotland) and eventually the strong feelings of the Welsh were acknowledged when it was decided that the name would henceforth be "England and Wales". Wales gained even more of an identity when (like Scotland) it gained its "own" department of the UK government.

Source: Wikipedia

England, U.K.

Surnames

The following are surnames of our persons in our databases(s) identified as having been born, married, or died in this location.

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families

BARLEE; BEARD; BENNETT; BLEASDALE; BLEASDELL; BONDE; BOOKER; BRACKEN; BROWNE; CARTER; CATON; COUCHMAN; DICKSON; EDNEY; GREEN; HOWSON; MILLS; MOLYNS; PANNELL; PARKER; PATTEN; PROW; ROWEN; STERNE; STREVEN; TEWKSBURY; TOMSON; WADE; WALLER; WRIGHT; YARBROUGH