Have you discovered a (living) famous person in your extended family?

[Tony Payne]

Nobody living, but...

My maternal great grandfather married the wife of Thomas Hardy's cousin George Hardy after he died.  They took care of the 2 daughters from the first marriage.

My paternal grandfather's sister was married to an artist who did a lot of paintings of Kew Gardens and was also well known in the 1920's for illustrating detective comics.   His daughter married a man who wrote a well known book on the detection and control of garden pests, which is still respected today.

But apart from that... nobody...

[DebbieG]

Oh Gensleuth,  its sounds as though you are distantly related to my stepdad as Stanley Baldwin and Rudyard Kipling also appear on his extended tree,  something to do with the Duttons and the Livesays,  in which case you would also be related by marriage to a present day Coronation Street actor   

Debbie

[KarenM]

My 2nd or 3rd  cousin was a well known author (he died in 1997), and he wrote a tv show called The XYY Man and Bulman based on his books.

One of his last books he based it on my snippits of my gr grandfather's life  and used names from our family, even the town where I live   

Karen

[LoneyBones]

We seem to have got away from living famous people, I'm the only  famous person (living) any of my relations have.
But famous dead people abound.
There is James Bonnin who built half of London in the early 1800's.
Then there's Captain John Cooper who was a whaling captain. Lady Blackwood. (possibly 3rd mate on the infamous attack of the Lady Rowena on a Japanese whaling village, 1830)
There must be more, but I just can't find them!     
Cheers,
Leonie.

[alisonbcd]

Absolutely no one living, just average people. However, I do have Winston Churchill in my tree. He was connected through marriages on my paternal grandmother's side of the family.

[Bellejazz]

(possibly 3rd mate on the infamous attack of the Lady Rowena on a Japanese whaling village, 1830)

I've never heard of this Leonie.
Sounds .... interesting.


Belinda.

[LoneyBones]

Of course you have! I'm here aren't I?? 
Isn't on the internet as famous as on the telly?
I even have an invitation from the Queen of England Herself! (no relation)
And all the neighbors know me!
When I walk down the street lots of people say g'day to me.
What more do you want?
Cheers,
Leonie.
PS. google LoneyBones.

[LoneyBones]

OOPS, don't google 

[LoneyBones]

OOPS again.
Um, Sydney Newspaper, sometime in Decamber 2007, re; Rudd's war against Japanese whalers. Whaling War ll.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22962070-5013404,00.html
there we go, try that.
Leonie.