Famous Relatives (or infamous!) - just for fun

[mumnosbest]

Researching my family tree, I was surprised to find I'm related to Florence Nightingale and Brian Blessed. Who'd have put those to in the same tree? Any of you discovered any little surprises?

[fishie]

david icke

[bran]

One of my ancestors was a signatory on Charles 1's death warrant.

[ManxMum]

Julie Andrews (by marriage, not birth) and Eric Claptoon.

Had a murderer in the family too in the 18th century and he was hanged!!

[CherryChapstick]

Spike Milligan.

[pickupthismess]

German Royals (no not those German royals - though might be given the way they all intermarried)

[EisGotASeveredHeadinherHandbag]

my great nana cousin was gilbert osullivan!!

my best mate in schools auntie is cilla black

xx ei xx

[lizziemun]

mumnosbest

Deanna Durbin was an actress in the 1930's here

[Heated]

Waaaay back:

Anthony Babbington, traitor, hung, drawn & quartered (boo hiss)

The Sheriff of Nottingham (more boo hiss if you believe in RH)

The Spencer family

[lizziemun]

Posted to soon. I don't think i'm related to anyone famous.

[BoysAreLikeZombies]

there are brains in my family, arf according to my late grandma.

I have no idea if this is true, but she would swear that she was related to the original Mr Brain.

[mumnosbest]

thanx lizziemun. U can share my relatives (plenty non-famous I could give away too lol)

[toadstool]

No-one famous at all . One 4x great-aunt was doused with water by a circus elephant as it sailed past her door on the Manchester ship canal. She was called Nellie (the aunt I mean; perhaps the elephant was, too).

[CorpseBrideOfJohnCusack]

oh I can reel out my ridiculous fact yet again
not famous, but SHOULD be
DH's grandfather invented the tog, as in the warmth rating for duvets etc. but he never gets the credit as he was working for a government research institute

[kayzisexpecting]

Mine is really really bad!

Martin Borrmann is something like my grandads great uncle. He was Hitler's best friend and right hand man.

[wonderstuff]

My great great grandfather has his name on a plaque on devils bridge in mid wales somewhere. A cousin was researching but stopped due to too many 'skeletons' I'm very intrigued!

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

Elizabeth Taylor (or cousin Liz as my dad calls her, never having met her). And Debbie Reynolds.

[UniversallyChallenged]

lol toadstool

[wonderstuff]

LOL toadstool thats a great story

[umberellascankill]

robert burns

[mamadiva]

No one really except Brian who was in River City LOL does that even count?

[Tas1]

We are related to William Wallace and we are on the official family tree.

[MyPumpkinDsHappyHalloweenBday]

The Guiness family and Earl of Sefton,

[nell12]

Charles II and Nell Gwyn
(Now you know where I get my name from!)

[Womba1]

Sir Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sir Christopher Wren.

On DH's side... Bill Clinton, George Best and one of the knights who murdered Thomas Of Becket.

[geekgirl]

Gudrun Ensslin, founding member of the Baader-Meinhof gang/Red Army Faction (German terrorist group, v. active in the 70s/80s, killed lots of people) is apparently my cousin twice-removed.