Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?

[Beeonthebay]

My grand-dad had the middle name of Elson which had been passed down through about 4 or 5 generations and turns out to be the maiden surname of one of his ancestors.  I don't know why he didn't use it on any of his 4 sons though.....

Don't you? I remember a kid I knew from primary school and Sea Scouts who was always known as "Elson" for no real reason. He was quite happy with this until it was pointed out to him that it was the brand name of a contemporary (1950's and 60's) portable chemical toilet. 

 

 

Elsan  with an 'a' - Oh Lordy I remember them well.  Commonly known as 'bucket lavs' goodness only knows where dad used to empty the thing.
And...Elsan still make them today for caravans etc.

I don't have any claims to fame that I know of.  Although my husbands cousin was at a party where she danced with and was asked out on a date by one of the Kray twins.  I believe she politely declined his offer.

And she lived to tell the tale!!   

[suey]

My grand-dad had the middle name of Elson which had been passed down through about 4 or 5 generations and turns out to be the maiden surname of one of his ancestors.  I don't know why he didn't use it on any of his 4 sons though.....

Don't you? I remember a kid I knew from primary school and Sea Scouts who was always known as "Elson" for no real reason. He was quite happy with this until it was pointed out to him that it was the brand name of a contemporary (1950's and 60's) portable chemical toilet. 

 

 

Elsan  with an 'a' - Oh Lordy I remember them well.  Commonly known as 'bucket lavs' goodness only knows where dad used to empty the thing.
And...Elsan still make them today for caravans etc.

I don't have any claims to fame that I know of.  Although my husbands cousin was at a party where she danced with and was asked out on a date by one of the Kray twins.  I believe she politely declined his offer.

And she lived to tell the tale!!   

Yes she did    Married soon after and moved out to Romford. 

[pinefamily]

I used to work with a man who grew up in their neck of the woods, in their heyday. He told me that as violent thugs as they were, they also looked after the local people. Come Christmas, they used to go round to the single parent families, or those out of work, and give food and presents for the children. Probably why no-one would snitch on them.

[coombs]

Being a distant cousin of Patsy Kensit, I am related to her through her dad James, an associate of the Kray twins, so a distant cousin an associate of 2 twin distant cousins.

[JAKnighton]

These people aren't really famous but my great-great-great grandparents had a coach building business which at the turn of the century modernised into a bicycle repair and motor vehicle business. They were the first in the district to sell the Model T Ford.

[lydiaann]

Nobody famous yet - but would love to know John Craven's lineage (Cravens from Yorkshire in my line) and Robson Green's (Robsons also in my line, attached to Cravens, from Northumberland).  I know people will question RG, but I understand his family take the maiden name from the mother for the first born son's Christian name.  You never know!  Maybe one of them will appear on WDYTYA sometime soon!

[davidft]

Robson Green was named after his father also named Robson Green, he was a miner. His mother Anne a cleaner and a shopkeeper. He was named in the Northeast tradition of naming first son after family surnames: Robson was his paternal grandmother's maiden surname, while his middle name Golightly is the surname of his maternal grandmother, Cissie Golightly, daughter of William Golightly, a miner and famous trade union leader in the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robson_Green

[spark]

Samuel Cousins - Metzotint engraver  1801-1887 was my 4th great uncle.

Does he count?
 
Spark

[smudwhisk]

Half Second Cousin 8 times removed - 18th/early 19th century Painter William Redmore Bigg, an acquaintence of John Constable.  His maternal grandfather was my 8xGreat Grandmother's half brother.