Author Topic: Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?  (Read 22954 times)

Offline kathywithak

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Re: Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?
« Reply #108 on: Sunday 22 May 16 19:54 BST (UK) »
Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
Not blood related, but he was godfather to a relative of mine that they named after him in 1905.  Long before he was famous.

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Re: Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?
« Reply #109 on: Monday 30 May 16 16:51 BST (UK) »
My G-G-Grandparents Peter Richardson and Elizabeth Owen were married in 1841 at Daresbury Parish Church in Cheshire. When I received a copy of their marriage certificate I immediately noticed that the service was conducted by perpetual curate Charles Dodgson. Now as many of you will know, Charles Dodgson was the real name of Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books and poems. A little research soon showed that it was in fact his father, also Charles Dodgson, who was the local vicar and so my G-G-Grandparents were married by Lewis Carroll's father!
Andrew, Banks, Birchall, Burgess, Burk, Carnell, Cartwright, Clare, Costello, Cragg, Daniels, Gregory, Hague, Hamblett, Hardman, Jackson, Marland, Mee, Mollyneux, Mullin, Naylor, Orford, Owen, Richardson, Robinson, Smith, Street, Tyldsley, Ward, Whalley, Wright
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Re: Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?
« Reply #110 on: Monday 30 May 16 17:03 BST (UK) »

That's a great claim to fame Latchfordian :)
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
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