In his letter No. 95 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to Christopher Tolkien:
For barring the Tolkien (which must long ago have become a pretty thin strand) you are a Mercian or Hwiccian (of Wychwood) on both sides.
The Suffield family DNA is probably I1-Z138 (a sample of a modern Suffield from Manchester). It fits the story Tolkien described in The Lost Road - ancient Nordic/Scandinavian Bronze Age, Anglo-Saxons, Hwicca, the Vikings... Read more about my research concerning the Suffield family, the family of J.R.R. Tolkien's mother here, here and here. More information about the haplogroup I1 can be found here on Eupedia, for instance:
(...) Z138+ (aka Z139+) is a very disparate subclade. It is
found at very low frequency throughout the Germanic world, with a peak
in England and Wales (although it could just be because of oversampling
in Britain).
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| Source: FamilyTreeDNA |
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