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'English' used to mean you were of non-celtic descent, basically saxon, angle, etc and British meant yoiu were from the island nation. There is also a difference in language and to some extent appearance in areas where there is a lot of descent from Danes (roughly mid to the southern portion of the land below Scotland.) There remain differences in language.
A friend who was attending school in Scotland keyed me in about this because my characters I was writing was British, but while to us its the same, not to the Brits...
I was telling someone once that I have a lot of scots in my geneology and he said its quite obvious since I look it.
Beats me. I have roughly the same background you do, but I'm blonde with blue eyes so I imagine there are varied types that would be considered "British".
And none of this has anything to do with genealogy.... closed.
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