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THE POPULATION of England was (roughly) 18 million in 1850;

6 million in 1750;

5.5 million in 1700;

4 million in 1600;

2 million in 1500;

4 million in 1300 (i.e. before the Black Death), and

2 million in 1200.

You have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, and so on. Most of your ancestors, therefore, were reasonably close cousins. If someone alive in Roman England left descendants who are alive today, and you have any English ancestry, you are probably descended from them.