Your famous ancestor

[Blib]

Do you have a famous or even better, an infamous ancestor lurking in your family tree? Tell us about them!

Here's mine.

My Great Grandfather was Lord Mayor of Dublin around the turn of the twentieth century.

Can you out-ancestor me.........?

Can you????

[Collectingbrass]

Blib said:

Do you have a famous or even better, an infamous ancestor lurking in your family tree? Tell us about them!

Here's mine.

My Great Grandfather was Lord Mayor of Dublin around the turn of the twentieth century.

Can you out-ancestor me.........?

Can you????

My Dad's mother had the same family name as the last hangman in a jail, which we found out when we were sat in the now museum café under the sign recording the last hanging.

[Johnspex]

Henry Bessemer. Inventor of the steel production process.

[Tango13]

Collectingbrass said:

Blib said:

Do you have a famous or even better, an infamous ancestor lurking in your family tree? Tell us about them!

Here's mine.

My Great Grandfather was Lord Mayor of Dublin around the turn of the twentieth century.

Can you out-ancestor me.........?

Can you????

My Dad's mother had the same family name as the last hangman in a jail, which we found out when we were sat in the now museum café under the sign recording the last hanging.

Pierrepoint?

[Getragdogleg]

According to a popular book I am a direct descendant of a chap who lived in a really nice garden with his Mrs, She once made him eat an apple she had scrumped and it all went downhill from there because the owner of the tree she nicked it from was a bit cantankerous and history shows that they hold a grudge.

[J4CKO]

My wifes side has a Sir and various designers of cotton mills, funnily enough we went to an even in one in Stockport and I looked up the directions and found the wikipedia page and it was one of theirs.

[Vixpy1]

My Great grandmother was the aunt of Oswold Moselys first wife and my great grandmother on the otherside was the great aunt of jacob rees moggs wife.

Tenious...

[MaxFromage]

The wife is related to Sir Walter Raleigh. My father in law is a huge genealogy fan, and has mapped it all out.

[Alex@POD]

Depends who you listen to. According to some people, my oldest ancestor was Adam. Beat that!

[Super Sonic]

Alex@POD said:

Depends who you listen to. According to some people, my oldest ancestor was Adam. Beat that!

That makes you Getradogleg's distant cousin!

[ChocolateFrog]

My auntie's into that stuff. Think she mapped the tree back to one of Nelson's personal surgeons.

Could be bks.

[Getragdogleg]

Super Sonic said:

Alex@POD said:

Depends who you listen to. According to some people, my oldest ancestor was Adam. Beat that!

That makes you Getradogleg's distant cousin!

Yeah, I know him.

[Alex@POD]

Getragdogleg said:

Super Sonic said:

Alex@POD said:

Depends who you listen to. According to some people, my oldest ancestor was Adam. Beat that!

That makes you Getradogleg's distant cousin!

Yeah, I know him.

That'll teach me to skim read the posts and think I'm the first one to come up up with something clever

[Geertsen]

Johnspex said:

Henry Bessemer. Inventor of the steel production process.

Have you got any cast iron proof of that?

[x5tuu]

Uncle Albert ... https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...

[Spare tyre]

My great grandfather invented good looks, you can tell by looking at me

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[StevieBee]

My FiL has traced his family tree a long way back and includes a verified link to Robert Fitz Odo - aka the Earl of Loxley upon which it is thought the tale of Robin Hood is based.

[Desiderata]

Rob Roy McGregor, an outlaw, blackmailer and lots more dodgy stuff. The apple doesn't fall far...

[PhilboSE]

Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I’s spy master and torturer-in-chief.

[Al Gorithum]

One of the Knights who fought alongside William the Conquerer at the Battle of Hastings.