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Re: Famous Nobody
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 08:32 BST (UK) »
Elizabeth Taylor again x 2 ,a cousin and my grandmother.
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 08:58 BST (UK) »
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I've got Snape, Dumbledore and Voldemort!  :o

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

 ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 09:15 BST (UK) »
Henry Morgan

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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 09:58 BST (UK) »
Nobody!

But I do have a chap who married into my family, who rejoiced in the splendid name of Napoleon Bonaparte Money.
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex


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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 15:21 BST (UK) »
Henry Morgan

I have often wondered was the Rum named after him, or just a coincidence?
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 15:23 BST (UK) »
But I do have a chap who married into my family, who rejoiced in the splendid name of Napoleon Bonaparte Money.

One of my friends has a Penny White, who married a Richard Farthing. She spent her married life as a Penny Farthing.    :)

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« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 15:31 BST (UK) »
my nephew is Tom Jones his father David Jones and my Nan is Elizabeth Taylor
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« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 17:37 BST (UK) »
Ive got a 'Richard Horatio Nelson Webb'.

Does that count?
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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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 17:43 BST (UK) »
As I am a Nelson, it gets my vote

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