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Famous Relatives (or infamous!) - just for fun

143 replies

mumnosbest · 16/10/2008 14:11

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?

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fishie · 16/10/2008 21:33

david icke

bran · 16/10/2008 21:37

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

ManxMum · 16/10/2008 21:39

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 · 16/10/2008 21:40

Spike Milligan.

pickupthismess · 16/10/2008 21:52

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

EisGotASeveredHeadinherHandbag · 16/10/2008 22:00

my great nana cousin was gilbert osullivan!!

my best mate in schools auntie is cilla black

xx ei xx

lizziemun · 16/10/2008 22:01

mumnosbest

Deanna Durbin was an actress in the 1930's here

Heated · 16/10/2008 22:02

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 · 16/10/2008 22:02

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

BoysAreLikeZombies · 16/10/2008 22:16

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.

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mumnosbest · 17/10/2008 18:14

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

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toadstool · 19/10/2008 21:59

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 · 19/10/2008 22:12

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 · 19/10/2008 22:17

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 · 19/10/2008 22:18

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 · 19/10/2008 22:20

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

UniversallyChallenged · 19/10/2008 22:20

lol toadstool

wonderstuff · 19/10/2008 22:21

LOL toadstool thats a great story

umberellascankill · 19/10/2008 22:21

robert burns

mamadiva · 19/10/2008 22:29

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

Tas1 · 22/10/2008 18:30

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

MyPumpkinDsHappyHalloweenBday · 22/10/2008 18:36

The Guiness family and Earl of Sefton,

nell12 · 22/10/2008 18:39

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

Womba1 · 22/10/2008 18:45

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 · 22/10/2008 18:52

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.