Hello
Any English males have the YDNA clade of R1A-Z94-Y57/Y52?
I've been told that this clade is quite uncommon to have in Europe especially in the west where most males are R1B or I YDNA and if they did have R1A it would be mostly the Germanic/Balto-Slav clades of R1A and not the Z94 clade which is the most easterly clade of R1A having formed in the area of modern day Kazakhstan and Iran.
As far as I can see, this clade isn't found in Celt/Germanic/Scando burials where most males found are R1B or I, with some R1a.
The only studies I've seen of Y57 being found, is mainly in Scytho-Sarmatian burial kurgans in the Caucasus/Steppes and Southern Russia.
I've seen a few people say that the most likely way this YDNA entered England was by the 5,000 Sarmatians who were exiled to England in 175AD by Marcus Aurelius. They apparently had a settlement at Ribchester and after their 20yr service they were not allowed to leave England so stayed.
Another theory was that it could have came across during the conquest of 1066 with a frank who had a Scytho-Alanic YDNA. The Alans were a similar group to the Sarmatians and travelled west from the pontic step, some settled in Northern France and some went into Spain with the vandals.
My paternal line is traced on paper back to Warwickshire in the Early 1700s with the very common surname of Taylor. As this is an occupational surname and one of the most common in the English speaking world, anybody of any YDNA line could have it so I cant really narrow a name genetically.
I did get in contact with someone who shared my closest known clade of Y1270/Y1269 and he has the surname Gibson although this link must match us back over 1000 years so a different surname is unusual.
