I think it's wise not to put too much faith in the estimates. Be careful about what you read online. Some people tend to have this idea that the boundaries between England and Scotland have always been solid and that the English and Scottish are distinct genetic groups - which they are not really, the reality is far more complicated. People have always moved around the British Isles and intermixed. So just don't rely on any sources that are not nuanced.
23 and me says that I have some Scottish ancestry, but I can't find it anywhere in my records definitively. I think there are two possibilities so far. One is that one of my 'paternity events' was an unknown Scottish man. The second possibility is that because I have significant ancestry from both the Carlisle and Sunderland areas, my ancestry is background ancestry from those populations.
I think a good start would be to go back through your tree and really look at the records closely. Is it possible that you have made a mistake and missed a record, or misattributed parents or something like that. Look for original records and not transcripts to see if there is any missing data or mistranscribed data.
Another thing is to try and see if you can find evidence of a 'paternity event', outside of the obvious ones where children are born out of wedlock. I was lucky once, by looking at military records I realised that a relative of mine was illegitimate - their supposed father was abroad at the time of their conception. A professional researcher was able to confirm my findings.
That's rare though, and many of these happenings will just go unrecorded, the DNA is the only clue we have.
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