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Offline geoff_43

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Famous Nobody
« on: Monday 25 July 11 20:02 BST (UK) »
Hi All,

So far in my tree I have:

Harry Potter, Elizabeth Taylor and Kate Middleton.

Has any one else a famous name in their tree, and if so what?

Geoff

Ruffle - Essex/Suffolk
Nelson - Westmorland
Worsfold - Sussex
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Offline Alan b

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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #1 on: Monday 25 July 11 20:26 BST (UK) »
Does John Alderton count as a famous name, think of Please Sir if you are not sure who he is.
Bloomfield, Knights, Whitmore, Warner (Suffolk)
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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #2 on: Monday 25 July 11 20:29 BST (UK) »
Wasnt he in upstairs downstairs too?
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 July 11 20:33 BST (UK) »
Hi Alan b,

Good enough for me

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Nelson - Westmorland
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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #4 on: Monday 25 July 11 21:15 BST (UK) »
Hi,


My children have got George Harrison in their tree......



Nanny Jan
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #5 on: Monday 25 July 11 21:32 BST (UK) »
I've got Harry Potter, too!
Bagot, Bate, Dominy,  Cox, Frost, Griffiths, Eccleston(e), Godrich, Griffiths, Hartland/Hartlin, Westwood, Spicer, Peake, Pass, Perry, Nuttle, Warrender

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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 00:11 BST (UK) »
John Brown several times.................as in Queen Vic's bit on the side,oh and John Brown's body,I guess I have a few of them too ;D
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 04:00 BST (UK) »
Elizabeth Taylor is my 3greats-grandmother.

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GRACE, HADLEY, ION,MURFET(T), SIZER, WALTERS, WISE - Tasmania,

BATTY, COLE,  GIBBS, GIBBINS/GIBBONS, GODDARD, GURNEY, HUGHES, JONES, LEE, PENNY, TROWER, WHALE, WILSHAW, WOODCOCK
New Zealand,

LEONARD, ROLLINGS, SIZER/SIZAR and many others - Cambridgeshire


BLACKBURN, CUNNINGHAM, DEAN, DOWGILL, GILL,HAINSWORTH, HUSBANDS, LOWE,  MABBLE, MARSHALL, MOORHOUSE, MYERS, PEARSON,PRESTON,  RAYNER, RILEY, SHOESMITH, SIGSTON, SKINN, TURNER, WARD, WILDMAN, WRIGHT

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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 06:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: cati on Monday 25 July 11 21:32 BST (UK)
I've got Harry Potter, too!

I've got Snape, Dumbledore and Voldemort!  :o

Nah, only joking ... no famous names in my tree.  ;)
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