Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?

[Beeonthebay]

Following on from another post of mine  have you found anybody famous in your family tree?

Me I have nobody except poor working class folk but I live in hope.   

Madonna?  Michael Jackson? Adele? Princess Diana? The Duchess of Windsor? Winston Churchill?  Horatio Nelson?  Emmeline Pankhurst?  John Lennon?

Anybody found anything?

[groom]

My father's second cousin was a very well known BBC commentator and broadcaster. My father always claimed they were related but I didn't believe him until I started FH and discovered that his grandmother was my father's grandmother's sister. I've since been in touch with his daughter and we've exchanged family photographs.

[KGarrad]

John Constable RA

His grandmother, Judith Garrad, is my 6th great-grandmother.
His paternal Aunt Ann Constable married my 5th great-grandfather, John Garrad. John was Judith's nephew.

And, of course, it must mean that I am related to Barbara Windsor?!

[coombs]

My maternal gran was the 8th cousin to Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
Patsy Kensit's ancestor was the sister of my 7xgreat grandfather Samuel Sparkes.

I may be distantly related to Bernie Ecclestone, he has a Tiffin line from Halstead, and I have a Tiffin line from nearby Wethersfield, also it is not a very common name in Essex.

[pinefamily]

My wife is Jeremy Bentham's second cousin, a few times removed. Another of her Bentham ancestors sailed in Cook's fleet as a purser.
My 3x great grandmother's brother, was William Youatt, the vet.

[bibliotaphist]

I would be Charlie Chaplin's third cousin, three times removed... if it wasn't for a bit of intervening illegitimacy 

[hsfam]

My husband's great-great uncle was Major-General Charles Brand. At least he is well-documented! http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brand-charles-henry-5338

Unlike his Irish mother's family. 

[LizzieW]

My 1st cousin 14 times removed, (alternatively the nephew of my 13 x g.grandfather) was Dean John Colet.  There is loads of stuff about him on line including the people he was friends with, Erasmus, who received an annuity from John Colet and Sir Thomas More to name just two.  He was Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral from 1502, then Dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1505 and founded St Paul's School, London.

Interestingly, his father who was Mayor of London twice and his mother had 23 children and Dean John Colet was one of only two to survive to adulthood.  If you believe in God, you could say he was saved to become Dean of St Paul's 

[trish1120]

Iris Murdoch.

It is likely a little known fact that her Grandparents Married in New Zealand.

My Grandmothers Sister Louisa Shaw married Wills John Hughes Murdoch 1888 in NZ (I have the M/C)

Iris's Father was born in NZ also;
Hugh Murdoch;
Birth 26 April 1890 • Thames, New Zealand


Trish