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The Common Room / Re: Found Anyone Famous
« on: Thursday 03 September 09 23:57 BST (UK) »
There are a couple of interesting links with possible ancestors. I say 'possible' because I have yet to prove the link, but I have a fairly rare surname and I reckon all of them are tied together somehow, but proving it will be another matter.
One of the links is really stretching it as it wouldn't be a blood relative, but there was an Agnes Spourne whose step-grandson was Ambrose Rookwood, one of the Gunpowder Plotters. She's linked by her 1st and 2nd marriages to the Cloptons whose line goes back to 1066, with a bit of royalty thrown in for good measure.
Another, and this one is definitely on my tree somewhere - a very distant cousin I suspect - was married to John Fryer, Master of HMS Bounty at the time of the mutiny. He hated Bligh but ended up in the rowing boat with him. He doesn't sound particularly nice so it's probably lucky for my 'ancestor' that she died before this event, by which time he'd re-married to Mary Tinkler - and she was probably related as well as I have found Sporne/Tinkler marriages in the same area.
So far I'm only definitely back to a marriage in 1766 where we've all hit a brick wall, but I'm doing a one-name study and have masses of stuff back to 15th c. All I need to do now is tie it all together - having first mastered medieval Latin etc - so no problems there then
One of the links is really stretching it as it wouldn't be a blood relative, but there was an Agnes Spourne whose step-grandson was Ambrose Rookwood, one of the Gunpowder Plotters. She's linked by her 1st and 2nd marriages to the Cloptons whose line goes back to 1066, with a bit of royalty thrown in for good measure.
Another, and this one is definitely on my tree somewhere - a very distant cousin I suspect - was married to John Fryer, Master of HMS Bounty at the time of the mutiny. He hated Bligh but ended up in the rowing boat with him. He doesn't sound particularly nice so it's probably lucky for my 'ancestor' that she died before this event, by which time he'd re-married to Mary Tinkler - and she was probably related as well as I have found Sporne/Tinkler marriages in the same area.
So far I'm only definitely back to a marriage in 1766 where we've all hit a brick wall, but I'm doing a one-name study and have masses of stuff back to 15th c. All I need to do now is tie it all together - having first mastered medieval Latin etc - so no problems there then