General Chat

Are you related to anyone in history of any importance.

I am related to the Author Beatrix Potter - Quite distantly tho

NOPE is the short answer.I have a grtx5 grandad who was the sailmaker on HMS Enterprise that spent several voyages looking for Sir John Franklin who was lost looking for the Northwest Passage .AND he is in a book called Hell Ship the story of HMS Enterprise as a witness to an altercation between Officers.
My only claim to fame!!.
he died in 1856 from inflammation of the windpipe after just coming home on the vessel that docked at Sheerness, he was from Maldon and went home to die !!

If I read the trees of contacts of mine, I would be related to Lord Darnley and William Wallace......but I am sure they have it wrong........after all I enjoy being a peasant......:0))

No, is the short answer, famous......no........important......yes......each and every one of them had a life that I am interested in.......everyone is important to me, titled or not.....

If I read the trees of contacts of mine, I would be related to Lord Darnley and William Wallace......but I am sure they have it wrong........after all I enjoy being a peasant......:0))

No, is the short answer, famous......no........important......yes......each and every one of them had a life that I am interested in.......everyone is important to me, titled or not.....

Well of course I am..... all my ancestors were important, to their families..... ;-0)

I think I may have found someone who was in prison in the 19Th century but I'm not absolutely sure yet.
In those days you could go to prison for not being able to pay a debt.... hardly a criminal, so I will reserve my criticism until I find the truth behind it.
Royalty???? G.G... no!
Deanna X

One of my g x 6 grandfathers was the heaviest man in England. there were over 2000 people at his funeral in 1842!

A gg grandfather's brother was imprisoned in 1851- the same year his brother (my gg grandfather) became a metropolitan policeman - for trying to derail a train, to steal from it.
Not exactly a great train robber - but it was at the same place as the famous one - Cheddington!!

Not blood line related,

The MacDonald sisters,

Stanley Baldwin and Rudyard Kipling in my tree and a famous

guitar player, who I cannot name as still living.

Makes for interesting conversations.

SylviaG

Have to say have found some unsavory things that the ancestors thought they had hidden but none that would be better hidden, Some very soon births after marriage that no matter how you try just dont equate!!! but thats it. found too some illegitimate births that the party may have hoped they wouldn't get found out on,but thats it
Did a rethink on paternal gran on how she had the nerve to look down on my parents children paretage when all of us were legit and she was pregnant with her first at marriage AND had two by her eventual 2nd hubby before they married, Guilty conscious is what comes to mind!!

What we must remember is, that in years to come someone may be searching out OUR misdemeanors!
Ah well, We will not be here so who cares?

She was fat, she was an old crone, she was a nasty %^&*&, or.....
she was a *lovely lady* .....
Yes, I like that one! ;-0)
Deanna X

Edward Dendy - b. 1613 -not quite a direct ancestor

Sergeant at Arms to the House of Commons in the time of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.
Responsible for Law and order in the city of London
Order for the "officers of the ordinance within the Towre of London" should deliver the axe used for Charles I execution to Edward Dendy or his deputies
At Restoration was exempted from Act of Indemnity, fled to Lausanne, died in exile.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 101066611

An aunt tells me that the "Monty" side of the family has been traced back by another relative to the Count Of Monte Christo.
Didn't have the heart to tell her that this couldn't really be so