You don’t need to invoke a port or Spain to explain the Basque element. There is good reason to believe both that the Basques represent an older stratum of the Western European population, from before the Indo-Europeans turned up (the Celts, in particular, reached Britain and Ireland only a few centuries BC) and that most Europeans are still descended largely from that older stratum.
Hmm, interesting. I’ve never had a genetic test or anything, but always been told I’m Scots-Irish and French w/ maybe a dab o’ German from a great-great grandmother (on the maternal side) and Scottish and English (on the paternal…both grandparents having immigrated from the UK the yr before my father was born).
My maternal grandparents were both red-haired and blue eyed (she the Scots-Irish and he the French and Irish, I believe).
My dad had darker hair and I’ve been told I got my coloring from him (but, being a child of a less than amicable divorce, I know very little of his side of the family)
I have dark brown, almost black, hair, hazel eyes, and olive complexion. I tan very readily (as do my kids, who, in addition to my special blend, are German and a bit of Native American).
I’ve been told more than once that I “look French” (even twice by actual French people with similar coloring) but I really don’t know what that signifies.
My grandmother used to call me (and others with different coloring or features in a family) “throwbacks”, meaning having characteristics of some past ancestor in the family tree, not as in “should be thrown back”. 
I suppose, when it comes down to it, none of us can really be absolutely sure WHAT our genetic heritage is minus a DNA test. Fun to speculate, though.
Very interesting post you have there. But please, Henry Hudson was very much an Englishman. Moreso than even George Vancouver.
IS A NAME USED BY THE CHEROKEE AND OTHER NATIVE AMERICIANS TO AVOID PERSECUTION IN THE 1800’S- MOST ESCAPED THE TRAIL OF TEARS BY HIDING IN CAVES MOSTLY IN NORTHERN ALABAMA & FLORIDA-VERY GOOD EXPLAINATION AT NATIVEPEOPLES.COM-I’M RESEARCHING MY HUSBAND’S LINEAGE OTHERWISE I WOULDN’T HAVE KNOWN BUT THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN JUST FINDING NAMES-THEY CHANGED THEIR NAMES-ADOPTED OUT THEIR CHILDREN-TO DO MY FAMILIES & HIS HAS TURNED INTO A 5 YEAR PROJECT!:eek:
Don’t use caps-lock, my dear.