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Have you found anyone famous in your family tree?

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Offline MarieC

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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #162 on: Friday 20 November 09 09:21 GMT (UK) »
That's an interesting and unusual ancestor to have, Colin!  :o :o

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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #163 on: Friday 20 November 09 19:34 GMT (UK) »
Yes not actually what I was hoping to find in my past.
https://colinbuckle.wordpress.com/genealogy/
Barrell, Bruce, Buckle, Ramsbotham (Suffolk), Meacham, Barber, Bishop, Bowers (Cambs)

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« Reply #164 on: Saturday 21 November 09 09:49 GMT (UK) »
Look at it this way - it certainly adds colour and interest to your family tree!!!!  ;D

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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #165 on: Monday 23 November 09 10:02 GMT (UK) »
i have a pinter in ymt ree did i already say that
Edwin Charles Pascoe Holman

and also in my partners tree i have a man who was found guilty of arson and insurance fraud however i think he was led astray by his wife as his wifes family (mother brother etc) were found guilty of more than 30 arsons and insurance fraud i think the only thing my man was guilty of was marrying the wrong woman he can only be implicated as he was actually at work at the time of the arson.

Also in my partners tree and in mine via a further back connection i have a man who was implicated in murder, although never tried or found guilty, A married lady said to him 'if i were not marrid would you take up with me'; he said 'yes' and then she murdered her husband (was found guilty and hanged) :o

so infamous rather than famous
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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #166 on: Friday 27 November 09 19:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
My great x3 Grandfather married a lady called Elizabeth Hucker and going back in her tree, we have Sir Thomas Leigh Knight and Sir Richard Berkeley Knight of Stoke Giffard.
Really should find out why they were Sir's!!

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Carmarthenshire/Cardiganshire, Wales - Jones
Somerset/Surrey - Perry

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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #167 on: Sunday 29 November 09 15:54 GMT (UK) »
Its amazing that I am distantly related to The Kray Twins of all people.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #168 on: Monday 30 November 09 03:53 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: colin buckle on Thursday 19 November 09 12:08 GMT (UK)
My Gt Gt Uncle was a hangman from 1901 - 1924. Quite a famous one, Crippen was one of those he hung.

 
 Good grief. So was Edith Thompson. And they reckon that's why he eventually slit his own throat.

 Miserable and messy endings all round then  :(
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Re: Found Anyone Famous
« Reply #169 on: Friday 04 December 09 19:29 GMT (UK) »
ok without getting everone confused and also myself confused in the process, i am distantly related to Thomas Wintrington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wintringham_(Liberal_politician)
who was married to a distant cousin of my great grandmother ( i got confused of who but they were related lol).. Margaret Wintringham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wintringham

Thomas's nephew was Tom Wintringham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wintringham


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« Reply #170 on: Friday 04 December 09 19:44 GMT (UK) »
error
SKYE(Macleod, Mackinnon, Macdonald, Campbell, MacRaild, Beaton)

RAASAY(Gillies, Macleod, Maclennan)

MEATH(Doonan, Robinson)

DUBLIN(Mcloughlin, Daly)

WICKLOW(Hollingsworth, Doonan)

MANCHESTER(Gregory)
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