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Of course we have a strong history of Belgic Celts moving into England: the backbone of the Brythonic Celts.
Here is a list of surnames he matches at 1 or 2 markers off;
Barrs
Drake
Meeks
Swiney
Bryant
Watkins of Devonshire
whiting of Berkshire
Staffordshire of Dorset
Shelton of Staffordshire
Biggerstaff
Ward of Hull
Boatwright
Curl: which most acknowledge is Norman
Musgrave
Coulson
Townsend
Brown
Smithers of Sussex
Mason
Steggles of St. Bury Edmonds: which is German for hill
Jones
Colwell: supposedly Norman
Keep: Hungerford Berkshire
Majors
Teague: Bristol (Cornish name)
Sturdivant of Cheshire (Wales)
Coe of Essex: which is Kay a Norse name for bird
Hill
Thurgood: old Norse name for Thor
Berriman: Cornwall
The pattern is very clear: all these names cluster in the very south west of England..........are very ancient and obscure...........and have a heavy Norse influence.
This is clearly the home of the Brythonic Celts from Belgium: they were closer to London earlier but feeling the pressure of the Romans they kept shifting west.......and eventually into Brittany
That these southern English names show such genetic parity with the southern Irish stock of names is a strong indicator of one stop along the way.
We see from what is absent: a large cluster of this DNA in London: that these are more ancient citizens than Angles or Saxons or Jutes or Vikings........
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