Found Anyone Famous

[guest189040]

A distant Cousin

 

[Yasmina4]

Jeremy Bentham, John Gay, Alfred Nobel, Max von Sydow, and a more tenuous link to Joshua Reynolds.

I see you have a pine/Pyne. I have a pyne coffin

[Nanna52]

My cousin Edwin seems to have been an accomplished actor in the early 1900’s.  Every now and again I search the papers for mention of him.  At last I found his obituary which mentions that not only was he an actor but stage managed, produced, wrote plays and songs.  As he died in 1940 he is forgotten now but I am still looking.

[guest189040]

Yes I have established that I have Joan Beaufort, John of Gaunt, Edward III in my Neville tree. She was married to Ralph Neville. Their son George Neville married Elizabeth Beauchamp (1417–1480), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp 13th earl of Warwick. I have been reading up on English medieval history to find out more about these fascinating times and people.

Biggles50 we may be related in another way too, as I have Stricklands in my tree too, from Light Hall in Colton, Lancashire.

We, no doubt are related via the Strickland's as there have been DNA developments for me since you posted.

I now have two DNA matches that link back to Ellen Strickland, daughter of Sir Walter Strickland of Sizergh Castle.

I have another DMA Strickland match who is in the USA and looking through their tree they get back to the ancestral home of Sizergh but via various locations in Lancashire so the options for you may well be there.

They match does seem to be a rampant Trump supporter so I am in no particular hurry to check through their tree person by person to verify its accuracy to my satisfaction.  They do still bear the Strickland name.

[andrewalston]

I have a distant cousin who took his coal mining family from Lancashire to Co. Durham in 1860. One of his sons married Ellen Lee, from another Lancashire family, whose brother Peter became a miners' leader and had a whole town named after him.

I have one cousin who rode horses in the circus in the days when newspapers named all the performers, but Joe Public would be hard pressed to name a circus performer from last year let alone the 1890s. so not famous any more.

I have more people in my tree who are more infamous than famous, but more records survive for the guilty than the innocent.

[chris_49]

They match does seem to be a rampant Trump supporter so I am in no particular hurry to check through their tree person by person to verify its accuracy to my satisfaction.  They do still bear the Strickland name.

I wouldn't rule out exchanging ideas with a Republican, even a Trump supporter. But if this person believes (as Trump says) that Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth record is a fake, why are they ready to believe all other records?
 

[coombs]

Through a recently found gateway ancestor, I am also a distant cousin of Danny Dyer, he drives a lovely haddock, and loves Rosie Lee. I do watch EastEnders still and find his Frank Butcher style phrases quite funny.

[pinefamily]

I have only just remembered, I am also a 4th cousin to Mark Woodforde, the tennis player (of the Woodies fame).
Also have a more distant connection to the Dowdeswell brothers who played tennis as well.

[Ron Preece]

Perhaps not famous, but interesting. I have a distant relative named Florence Collingbourne. Described as a "Gaiety Girl and Cross Dressing Artiste" she trod the boards at Daly's London Theatre between 1894 and 1902. Her daughter was the author Stella Margetson who wrote numerous books about Victorian and Edwardian high society.