Factors Involved

      My Celtic y-DNA managed to make it through 400 years or so of Roman military occupation. The previous posts starting from Inigo Jones (1573-1625) on December 15, 2021, begins my JONES family's story. Each post tries to present the various factors involved leading to my Celtic origins. This post will try to begin summarizing the most important. If interested, you can scroll back to read the posts.

      The first factor is that of geography. My Deceangli folks maintained their family identity by mostly hiding out in the hills of the Vale of Clywd. Their tribal land was hidden behind the end of the world. [see post dated 24 May titled "World's End"] They also had the least contact with the Romanization of the rest of the occupied Island [see post dated July 2nd titled "The Villas"] Their main contact point was Deva (Chester) with more than 6,000 military residing there most of the days. They needed to keep my Celtic ancestors bringing their cattle to market which was necessary to feed all these empty stomachs. [see posts of 1 April titled "The Herds" and 5 June titled "Where's The Meat"] My Cornovii tribe had much more direct contact with the Roman occupation having a special settlement build by their occupiers called Wroxeter. Here the Romans would need all the wool crossing the land bridge [post 30 March titled "The Land Bridge"] to help keep them warm on those cold winter nights. [see posts 19 February "Shearing Sheep", 24 February "Sheep Breeds", 4 March "By The Numbers", and 10 March titled "Liver Rot"] Both Celtic tribal groups had maintained their existence by bringing their sheep and cattle together to this land bridge for a few years before these Roman folks showed their faces. [see post 12 March titled "Location, Location, Location"]