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may have originated in Cumberland (now Cumbria), located in the English and Scottish border ridings with Anglo-Saxon ancestral roots. The Nicholson Family living in Cumbria and Yorkshire has a paternal haplogroup of E-V13, the origins of which are from the Balkans.