Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family

[Blue70]

I discovered that a living Labour MP and myself are 5th cousins 


Blue

[Ruskie]

I have a few, but my favourite is (only) related by marriage .... Thomas Spencer (M&S). 

[pharmaT]

There is no one famous in my direct line. However many married in or in collateral lined although my paternal grandfather made the front page of the Daily Record for chasing a armed robber. We are referred to by a distant cousin as the embarrassing poor branch who haven't really achieved anything.

In my daughter's direct line (doing a tree for her) one of her grt (can't remember how many) grandfather's is cited in a book as claiming to have been the plough boy who was with Robert Burns when he overturned THAT  mouse nest.

[Karen Lorraine]

I would love to have a lake  named after me!

karen

[Greenvale]

I would love to have a lake  named after me!

karen

But how about being named after a lake such as Rudyard Kipling?

[clairec666]

I've only found one relative who's worthy of a Wikipedia page - Archibald Howard Cullen, bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa. He was my great-grandmother's cousin. I've found a lot of information about him, and he sounds like quite a character.

Whenever I add a new person to my tree I tap their name into google to see what comes up. Quite a few distant relatives were successful sportsmen on a local level, but as far as I know, none represented the country.

[Guy Etchells]

I dare say most of us have well known or famous people in our lines somewhere, some may even have infamous people in there. It's just a matter of fact
Cheers
Guy

[StevieSteve]

But how about being named after a lake such as Rudyard Kipling?

Cake, surely?

[Greenvale]

But how about being named after a lake such as Rudyard Kipling?

Cake, surely?

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