Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?

[alanmack]

It has to be remembered that Scottish Clan names were originally applied to Kith (supporters, adherents, gang members, depending on how you look at it  ) as well as Kin (the family of the Clan chief).

alanmack (Sassenach  )

[fallingonabruise]

My great Grandma was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, if she hadn't have got a reprieve she would have been hanged after Ruth Ellis
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[marcie dean]

It has to be remembered that Scottish Clan names were originally applied to Kith (supporters, adherents, gang members, depending on how you look at it  ) as well as Kin (the family of the Clan chief).

alanmack (Sassenach  )

also names such as smith, were known to be attached to several septs.  as each sept had threir own set of smiths whose job it was to make arms for their clan chief and followers , make things out of gold silver puter etc.

[Ladyfing]

My grandmother gave me a list of names of 'celebrities' to be found in our tree. Gypsy Rose Lee, W G Grace, a Bishop of Southwark who arrived with William I, Captain Oates and finally Abraham Lincoln!!

I discovered my great uncle was a relatively successful boxer in Surrey. He began his career boxing at the boxing booths held regularly on Thornton Heath in Surrey. These were run by Gypsys which is the only 'connection' to the infamous exotic dancer that I have found so far. A gt gt grandfather was a gardener at Crystal Palace and possibly a groundsman when W G Grace was Chairman, Secretary AND Captain of the cricket team there. I have not found any connection to the Bishop or Captain Oates, however, I did recently discover my gt gt grandmother's maiden name was Lincoln and she was born in Norfolk. I suspect the surname is the only connection to the US President.

It has been so much fun disproving any genealogical links to these celebrities though and I have definately learned to go with my instincts when researching.

 

[Ruskie]

I have a few tenuous links to well known people, but my favourite is a second cousin 5 times removed, or is it a fifth cousin twice removed? No matter. Her name was Agnes Spencer Whitfield and she married Thomas Spencer, founder of M&S, and became Agnes Spencer Spencer. 

[geordiegirltx]

My great Grandma was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, if she hadn't have got a reprieve she would have been hanged after Ruth Ellis
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Wow!   that is very interesting      xx

[Erato]

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

I have a cousin once removed who was [probably] Ronald Reagan's high school math teacher - at least she taught math in his small town high school during his years there.  But it would be unfair to hold her responsible for his ghastly, mathematically unsound "voodoo economics."

[KGarrad]

A gt gt grandfather was a gardener at Crystal Palace and possibly a groundsman when W G Grace was Chairman, Secretary AND Captain of the cricket team there.

If it helps, W G Grace was a member of the London County Cricket Club from 1899 until that club folded in 1908.
London County played at Crystal Palace Park.

[coombs]

I have found a new Deeks line, from Stanstead, Suffolk, and Barbara Windsor has Deeks from Bures, a few miles away but it seems her Deeks line cannot be traced in Bures before 1726. I may try and find out msyelf to clarify but someone has them coming from Glemsford, next to Stanstead. Mine was Susannah Deeks born c1708.