People of English Descent - English Diaspora

English Diaspora

Further information: English American, Anglo-Argentine, English Brazilian, English Canadian, English Chilean, Anglo-African, English Australian, English immigration to Jamaica, and New Zealand European George Washington 1st President of the United States had English ancestors. Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, 1st and 2nd Prime Minister of Australia both had English parents.

From the earliest times English people have left England to settle in other parts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but it is not possible to identify their numbers, as British censuses have historically not invited respondents to identify themselves as English. However, the census does record place of birth, revealing that 8.08% of Scotland's population, 3.66% of the population of Northern Ireland and 20% of the Welsh population were born in England. Similarly, the census of the Republic of Ireland does not collect information on ethnicity, but it does record that there are over 200,000 people living in Ireland who were born in England and Wales.

English emigrant and ethnic descent communities are found across the world, and in some places, settled in significant numbers. Substantial populations descended from English colonists and immigrants exist in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.