Viking origins - the Organ family of Gloucestershire and Australia - ᛘᛁᚴᛁᛅ ᚢᚱᚴᛅ
The Great Heathen Army, 865AD. Contents Origins Vikings DNA results Language Summary References -------------- Abstract : DNA and oral tradition connects the Organ family of Gloucestershire, England, with Viking ancestry, arising out of the invasion and conquests of Anglo Saxon Britain from the late 8th through to the 11th century and the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. The writer briefly outlines the existence of that connection through to settlers in Australia during the 1830s and their descendents. -------------- ᛘᛁᚴᛁᛅ ᚢᚱᚴᛅ 1. Origins Gloucestershire, England. Like most surnames, origins are often intriguing, and Organ is one such example. The writer - Michael Organ / in rune ᛘᛁᚴᛁᛅ ᚢᚱᚴᛅ - is a fifth generation Australian, of known English and Irish descent. So where did the surname come from? What race? Is the word English or derived from another language, or languages? Does it refer to, for example, internal or external physiological ele...