Found Anyone Famous

[aghadowey]

My great-aunt was married to Queen Victoria's butler.  Does that count?

My great-grandfather's employer's butler was lost on the Titanic although his daughter survived. Practically related, right?

[Erato]

"Practically related, right?"

Sure.

My first cousin once removed, Irma Newman, probably taught Ronald Reagan algebra in Dixon, Illinois (but I am definitely not claiming any relationship to RR).  On the other hand, I won't reject a relationship to Glenn Seaborg (winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951) who credited his high school chemistry teacher Dwight Logan Reid, my first cousin twice removed, for inspiring him as a chemist.

[coombs]

My ancestors cousin was a steward for many years on the RMS Olympic, the sister ship to Titanic.

[coombs]

Singer Chris Rea's mother in Middlesborough was descended from a Ralph Musgrave Wilson and his Musgrave line as far back as it can be traced according to other trees is from Aycliffe and Greatham. I have verified for myself the Greatham connection. My Musgrave's came from the same area as well. And I have a Ralph Musgrave as a sibling of my ancestor.

[stonechat]

Well I recently discovered I am descended from Jane Cromwell, sister of Oliver, and her husband  Sir John Disborough ( various spellings) a major figure in the Civil war

[fiddlerslass]

Famous to a certain extent in the history of Northern Czechia!

Count Jan Josef Thun-Hohenstein, being envious of the success of Karlovy Vary, wanted to have a healing spring on his estate and to build a spa. He lived to see it in 1768, when his gamekeeper discovered a spring of ferruginous water in Horní Žleb, Czechia.

This gamekeeper was Franz Pallan, my 7 x GT grandfather.

There's a couple of pictures of the spa here, St Josef's spa at the start of the article. The German name for Horni Žleb was Obergrund.

https://cottage.cz/en/pilgrimage-to-the-monuments-of-human-health-care/

[DianaCanada]

In an earlier thread I mentioned that I might be connected to the Weston family, a very prominent and wealthy Canadian family (at one point they owned Selfidges) but that, alas, has been debunked. Their origins (the famous ones) remain a bit obscure, but definitely English.
I have found out that one of my distant relatives, Joseph Swift, was an artist, and considered a folk artist, who painted horses. He emigrated to Canada from Yorkshire in the late 19th century.  I was able to buy an in print book about him, actually not so much about him, mostly about his art.