Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?

[Old Bristolian]

On a lighter note, my mother was the Sunday School teacher of Darth Vader (Dave Prowse)

Steve

[groom]

On a lighter note, my mother was the Sunday School teacher of Darth Vader (Dave Prowse)

Steve

Following that, I taught George Michael's cousin.  .

[stevew101]

Bartholomew Smith, the well known Gypsy Evangalist married my First Cousin (4xremoved) Sarah Lee and one of their children was the well know evangalist Gypsy Simon Smith.

http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/-gipsy-simon-smith.html

[pinefamily]

On a lighter note, my mother was the Sunday School teacher of Darth Vader (Dave Prowse)

Steve

Poor Dave Prowse wasn't told that his voice had been dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones. He didn't find out until he watched the film.

[Old Bristolian]

Darth Vader with a Bristol accent just wouldn't have worked

[KGarrad]

Can you not see Darth Vader saying "Alright my babber?"

[Rishile]

My uncle married Dorothy Squires' sister  Dorothy married Roger Moore so I'm related (by marriage) to James Bond.

Rishile

[Aulus]

Jane Asher (the actress and cake maker) is my 9th cousin once removed on my Guest side.  She's a descendant of Josiah John Guest, who's my 5th cousin 5x removed.  His family has been fun to research, not only because it's easy, as there are so many sources, but because he was ennobled, and, as in the British nobility's way, his descendants married into other noble families, including the Spencer-Churchills, that I've found some of them at Blenheim Palace ...

Sticking with Winstons , closer to home my 4th cousin 4x removed is Winston Grime aka Winston Graham, the author of the Poldark novels.

Naturally none of my direct line have done anything famous or noteworthy...

[sirsimon]

I am not related to anyone truly famous, but I did have a 5x great uncle whom fought at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 and my half uncle's wife is a descendant of Dinah Riddiford, the oldest woman to be hung in British history