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

[asmith1988]

My 5x great-grandfather was Lord George Beckwith, who was apparently a big enough deal that he has his own Wikipedia page.  My great-great unce also has his own page -- he was Premier of Ontario for a time.

[Ruskie]

My daughter's boyfriend is related to a few interesting famous people, including https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsford_Smith
What a legend! 

[coombs]

Being related to Patsy Kensit as well as the Kray twins makes me related to several notorious East End criminals as Patsy's dad was an associate of the Krays and I am related through him. I saw a pic of Reg Kray holding Patsy's brother (his godson) as a baby. And I am distantly related to both of them.

[ScouseBoy]

Some of   My family  come from the Seaforth and Litherland area  where W.E. Gladstone  was once the MP,  and there are many  plaques on the wall  and places named after him.      My cousin is related to his family.

[Zoe-Hannah]

My Cousin married an Actress who was in Hollyoaks, plus she played the lead role in an ITV drama about the moors murders.

Another Cousin is convinced she's a distant relative of General Gordon of Khartuom

[philipsearching]

A 10x great grandfather was Edwin Sandys MP - secretary of the Virginia Company (so the USA was partly his fault!)  His father was Edwin Sandys Archbishop of York (who collaborated in the translation of the Bishop's Bible).

My gran claimed she was a distant cousin of Michael Collins (of IRA fame) because her grandparents were from Clonakilty - but I haven't researched this, so it may be one of those family legends with no basis in fact.

[Rudolf H B]

Hello,
 
* my 12th cousin will be the next king of Denmark
* Enevold count Brandt, the third cousin of my gt-gt-gt-gt-grandmother Spatz was invited to a boxfight with a Denish king. As winner he was cut and torn into five or six pieces together with Struensee in 1772.

Herbert Spatz MC (Spence since 1939) first cousin of my grandfather (who built German submarines in WW1) got the Military Cross in 1918. I am looking for his children and nephews. He is related to Nancy Price, several other VIPs and to the peerage.

I have found our Australian cousins because they have a step relationship to Australian pop stars.

My grandfather and the English Spatz/Spence are fifth cousins of General Spaatz USAF, he took part at the three surrenders of Reims, Karlshorst and Tokyo bay.

The relationship of my great-grandaunt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelheid_Steinmann to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge has been recently published.

..., - enough for today

Regards
Rudolf H. Boettcher

[coombs]

My ancestor was John Kellock/Kellogg who was born c1726 in Essex. He died in 1779 and was a yeoman, and his surname was spelt Kellogg. He is a likely relative of the Kellogg family of Braintree, whose descendants founded the world famous breakfast chain in America. 

[Guyana]

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

Cake, surely?

Like it!

It's an exceedingly good lake.  (Sorry I'm late)