Found Anyone Famous

[danuslave]

Hi redfrog and welcome to RootsChat

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Linda

[robbo43]

Not terribly famous but my mother's cousin was Sidney Davey, a bandleader who appeared on BBC Radio programmes like "Music While You Work" & "Those Were the Days".

Then, of course there is my direct link back to Noah & the Flood in Genesis.  Oh no, sorry, that should be Noah Flood born 1770ish of no fame whatsoever

Robert

[Ladyfing]

There is a family legend that our families are/were related to:
 
1. A Bishop of Southwark who came over with William I (didn't they all!!)

2. Abraham Lincoln (everyone in the family claims to have his nose!)

3. Gypsy Rose Lee (I think this has something to do with a great uncle boxing in the Fairs at Thornton Heath and hanging out with gypsies)

4. Captain Oates (he went out for a bit of a walk  in the South Pole. Whilst members of the family are known to be a bit 'lost', I think that's as far as that one goes)

5. W G Grace the famous cricketeer.

I find all claims a bit of a giggle really and was so pleased to disprove the cricketing Grace claim. My 2 x great grandfather was head gardener at Crystal Palace in Sydenham when Grace was Chariman of Crystal Palace cricket club and unless he had carnal knowledge of the gentleman in question, there have to date been no documented reports of offspring!

By the way, can I really claim descendancy to Lucy ' Australopithecus afarensis' Now that's far more interesting and exciting! 

[Annie65115]

A timely thread revival, I was planning to post on this subject!

I thought I was doing quite well in amongst all the tradespeople, FWK and servants to have a 1st cousin 4 times removed who was an MP in the late 1800's. His daughter was treasurer of the London branch of the Women's league for Suffrage (or whatever the Suffragette organisation was officially called).

Then I found a 7x great-grandfather commemorated in various Victorian moralistic texts - he died a centenarian having worked for the same company for 93 years! 

However I trumped this yesterday with another 4th cousin who married someone whose family turned out to be in Burke's peerage so easy to track. Through this marraige I find myself related to any number of Earls and Dukes, and to Charles Grey, Whig PM in the early-mid 1800's. Now Charles Grey had an illegitimate daughter with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was a Spencer by birth - yes, the Diana Spencer family - so although you may dismiss it as tenuous and indeed not really related at all, except retrospectively by marraige and illegitimacy, I find myself this morning feeling a very close and deep kinship with Diana and Charles and through them the rest of the European royal families and going back as far as you want.

 

[JillJ]

I know just how you feel Annie!  I've resisted the temptation to add my own lineage to this thread for a very long time because of the 'giggle' tendency if I say I am directly descended from William the Conqueror, but it's true!  Working with my cousin we struck minor nobility in the 15-1600's which led us back to Joan Beaufort, illegitimate (although later legitimised) daughter of John of Gaunt and Katheryn Roet Swynford.  John of Gaunt was the son of King Edward III and, assuming the historians got it all correct, that takes me back to William 1 and beyond.

Jill

[Ladyfing]

You do realise Jill and Annie that you may now claim direct descent from the Almighty? Medieval royalty loved to trace their descendency back to Adam and therefore God him/herself, theirs was a divine right after all.


 

[JillJ]

Yes, I did realise that Kersfam, just didn't want to brag about unconfirmed descent!

Jill

[Annie65115]

Ahem, we'll have less of this informal "annie", if you don't mind; I answer today to "Princess" or "your ladyship"   

[toni*]

Edwin Charles Pascoe Holman watercolour painter my Grandads cousin

James Hickman implicated although never charged in the onion pie murder OH 1st cousin 4 times removed.

found 2 other murderers who i thought belonged to me but turns out after researching them they don't - same name same y.o.b same place at one time or another but not mine

perhaps the question should be found any one infamous