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Article: Plain old Guinness ; (1) New DNA tests disprove familys claim to aristocratic origins (2) Arthur Guinness: Founded brewery (3) Conservation: Desmond Guinness.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2007
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Byline: Lucie van den Berg
BREWING, banking and a tidy fortuneit is no wonder the Guinness family are considered the closest thing to Irishroyalty.
But despite their iconic status, it turns out that when the Guinness familybeer is watered down, the bare ingredients make for a rather less prestigiousmix.
New DNA tests on the fifth generation of the famous brewing family haverevealed that the family are not descendants of Gaelic aristocracy.
Analysis of the familys male Y chromosome in Trinity College, Dublinat the request of the familyhas shown that the family tree has quite humble roots.
Despite claims by founder Arthur ...