Found Anyone Famous

[Sarndra]

Trish,

You are so right. My father always said we were related to HG Wells. I traced my Wells branch back to the 1700s and there is definitely no link. Oh well.

Kath

I had the same situation with Lord Kitchener.  Because my g g g grandmother was nee Kitchener, years of family lore had it that we were related ...but of course i had to get stuck in and disprove it LOL...some weren't too happy about that!

I do have Yorkshire Wedgewood and Chippendale connections but pretty diluted.

Cheers
Sarndra
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[stonechat]

I have one person who is mentioned on two other people's entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, no entry of her own though

Bob

[peaches13]

Hi everyone

As close as I can get is my 4x GGrandfather Richard Wouldhave was on board the frigate Pandora which was sent to the south seas to capture the 25 men who had 'pirated' the Bounty and cast adrift her captain, William Bligh.
Also his ancestor a cousin of sorts William Wouldhave is known for the help in the invention of the very first life boat.

Cheers
peaches


 

[XPhile2868]

I'm not claiming to be any sort of relative of these people (after all, I bet most people of British ancestry are related to these people at about the same degree of relationship), but using a cousin chart and the online documentation regarding my distant ancestors the Houghton family (who were Normans), I have found the following relationships -

Aurelia Howick is my 23x great grandmother, so that makes me -

The 22nd cousin 2 times removed of Prince Charles (told you these were going to be distant)
The 19th cousin 5 times removed of Winston Churchill
The 20th cousin 4 times removed of Princess Diana
The 24th cousin of Albert II (not sure what country he was King of though)
The 18th cousin 6 times removed of John "Osawatomie" Brown

And as Maud De Valoines is my 26x great grandmother, I am

George I of Britain's 17th cousin 10 times removed
George Washington's 19th cousin 8 times removed


Stephen

[slowbookworm]

The best I can come up with is my GGG Grandfather who discovered the Blaisdon plum (a variety of plum grown in Gloucestershire) not very impressive.
My Gran says that her mothers Napier family are connected to John Napier inventor of Logarithms. But I dont think this is likely to be true and anyway I havent even managed to trace my Napiers back to Scotland yet they all seem to live in London.

[stonechat]

I have an even more indirect connection with Fruit!

My ancestor was a Curate in Winkfield (for 50 years!)

The vicar was William Rham, who created the Vicar of Winkfield pear

Bob

[Erato]

I am about 90% sure of one pretty famous connection but since I'm not at 100% I won't mention his name as it involves a family scandal.

There is no one else whose name would be recognized today though there are a few who had limited local reknown during their lives - a Wisconsin state senator (J.F. Ware), a quite famous missionary (Robert W. Logan), a well known and admired professor (Dwight Logan Reid), a county judge in Missouri (Joseph Chapman).

[kerryb]

Talking of fruit, apparently my gggg grandmother's family who emigrated to Tasmania were one of the first families to export apples back to England and had 500 acres of orchards out there.

Kerry

[DJFRENCH]

only famous person we have is Patience Cooper, my nans sister... famous Anglo Indian and first anglo Indian Bollywood star , she made 44 films 1921-1940 ish