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rmc on Jan 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: London Names Map

The nationalistic Welsh will tell you they are the real british people, but displaced and pushed westwards (into what is now Wales) by the Romans, Normans, Anglo Saxons etc. So a name might be mostly Welsh now, but the people with that name might have lived in that area for a very long time,

grifaton on Jan 24, 2011 [–]

I'm not sure about this - first-century London was about the size of Hyde Park!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_London#First_century_AD

Edit - also, it appears that prior to the fifteenth century, the Welsh tended to use a patronymic naming system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_surnames

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