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Title: Do you have famous relatives?
Post by: Fineus on March 21, 2004, 04:18:18 pm: Amid all the randomness we have going on right now, I thought I'd start something I don't think we've had before. It's funny who has connections to who - and I think it could be interesting to see that here. So lets see if anyone has any ties - close or distant - with famous (or not so famous) types.

I'll kick us off of course - while I have nother I don't know so much about - I do have ties with this man:

Henry Avery (http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/lennon/897/avery.html)

Avast! :D
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 21, 2004, 04:24:37 pm: Well being of the Beverley line, chances are I can trace my heritage back to yon Philip Beverley of the New Forest or whoever he was. Some Middle Ages nobelman or something, apparently.

Alternatively, my grandfather once hijacked a tram in Hong Kong when he was in the Navy during the war.
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Post by: Taristin on March 21, 2004, 04:24:46 pm: My uncle was a Chipendale Dancer... Does that count?
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 21, 2004, 04:32:49 pm: I'm an incredibly distant relation of the Baltimores, and apparently I'm descended from Irish pirates, and possibly Irish bards. I also rate a coat of arms :p
(http://www.tahtonka.com/drisco3.jpg)
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Post by: Rictor on March 21, 2004, 04:33:05 pm: My aunt is a (prominent? )writer and has written something like 10 books on the topic of Jewish people in Yugoslavia and the Holocaust. Thats about as famous a person as I can think of in my family.
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 21, 2004, 04:45:18 pm: I am the famous person in my family.
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Post by: Liberator on March 21, 2004, 04:47:47 pm: Well, my grandmother on my father's side is an Adams and her brother traced the lineage all the way back, 16~20 generations, to King Duncan I, II, and III, of Scotland. Course, half of Scotland could probably do that by now.

More closely, one of my aunts on my mother's side is a Skaggs and she is 2nd or 3rd cousin to Country/Bluegrass Artist Ricky Skaggs.

I'll provide geneology for the first late(when I can get a copy from my grandmother)
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Post by: Taristin on March 21, 2004, 04:56:31 pm: My Grandmother's cousin was a high CEO for Bristoll-Meyers Squibb...? He passed away a few months ago tho...
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Post by: Nico on March 21, 2004, 05:06:05 pm: Yeah, I come from two very famous people: Adam and Eve.
Oups, I did it again ( anhan! ).
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Post by: Taristin on March 21, 2004, 05:12:20 pm: Inbred Hick!
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Post by: jdjtcagle on March 21, 2004, 05:15:22 pm: Sitting Bull
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Post by: Zeronet on March 21, 2004, 05:28:26 pm: The O'Dea family has a castle, thats about it.
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Post by: Flipside on March 21, 2004, 05:28:39 pm: Henry Cooper in the close past, the Theobald Family (relatives of Henry VI, apparently) in the far past. :)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 21, 2004, 05:30:38 pm: i think on my grandmother's side, napoleon was a distant relative..
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Post by: an0n on March 21, 2004, 05:32:01 pm: The only things any of my family have ever been famous for are some fairly questionable activities which achieved local fame.
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Post by: Carl on March 21, 2004, 06:32:20 pm: my uncle once removed or something was some professional football player.
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Post by: Darkage on March 21, 2004, 06:36:34 pm: i traced one of my relatives back to 1782 need to do some more research to see if it go's back further.
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Post by: GT-Keravnos on March 21, 2004, 06:42:56 pm: Well my great grand father (Who has the same name as me), was one of the organisers of a Farmers' revolt (Killeler) in Thessalia, Greece 6th March of 1910, which was the beginning of the end for the abolishment of serfdom, whereby from Landlord's pets, they became free farmers. Every time I see the marble monument of the revolt, I am awed. Also, a first cousin was Mayor in a small city in Thessalia, Greece 4 years ago.
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Post by: redsniper on March 21, 2004, 06:56:00 pm: A distant grandfather (as in sever 'greats') on my dad's side was kidnapped by pirates up in Canada or northern US, and later escaped like 10 years later or something. Not really famous but a cool story.
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Post by: vyper on March 21, 2004, 07:08:15 pm: Ye I can't name famous relatives but I can tell you two great cousins who were in the secret services in WW2.
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Post by: Corhellion on March 21, 2004, 07:22:44 pm: Eric Clapton ;) (the song writer/musician)

He's my...3rd cousin I think...on my mothers mothers side of the family.
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Post by: Stealth on March 21, 2004, 07:54:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
I am the famous person in my family.

lol, i knew that was coming
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 21, 2004, 08:09:09 pm: Corhellion wins.
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Post by: Corhellion on March 21, 2004, 08:11:12 pm: :D:D:D

Although...I've never met him...we are distant cousins :)
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Post by: Xelion on March 21, 2004, 10:22:10 pm: My Uncles name is Adolf but AFAIK I don't think his related to Hitler, which I think is a good thing...because I would have probably killed him :nod: Besides the point I'm sure no one in my family is famous 'famous' YET anyway..:D
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Post by: demon442 on March 21, 2004, 10:31:48 pm: Personally, none that I know of on either side. A friend of mine though, is related to General Westmoreland of the Vietnam War.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 22, 2004, 01:01:31 am: I'm related to this dude (http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwegbert.htm) through my mom's side; both my dad's parents were orphans so tracing things on that side is a bit tough.

Do I win? :p
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 22, 2004, 01:56:40 am: No.

Layla owns.
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Post by: kasperl on March 22, 2004, 03:33:15 am: there is a nobel prize winner somewhere in the family, IIRC. Chem or Physics, a guy named Eindhoven AFAIK.
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Post by: Gloriano on March 22, 2004, 09:25:47 am: I don't know if there is or was any famous peoples in my family but I know my familys history is very old (fathers side)
mother side is very old too I don't know how old 1000-800years

there is even few Crusade knights in my family tree (mothers side)
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Post by: Shrike on March 22, 2004, 09:38:54 am: My father is (apparently, it's not the kind of thing I hear about directly) internationally recognized in the vanadium chemistry fields and he's a plenary speaker at this year's IUPAC conference in Hungary. That's about as famous as my family gets.

Oh, and my great-to the Nth grandfather was Jesus's second cousin's roommate. Almost forgot.
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Post by: Martinus on March 22, 2004, 09:50:44 am: [color=66ff00]My surname means great chieftan so no doubt somewhere in Ireland's past I had a badass ancestor.

Oh yeah, my dad once talked to Shaft (he's a baddd mother golfer) at a local golfing tourney. I think I win on coolness factor. ;)
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Post by: 01010 on March 22, 2004, 01:00:25 pm: My great-great-great (or something to that effect) grandfather was one of the founding members of the Irish Republican Army (family tree gets a little difficult to trace correctly so this isn't a definite), and my Grandad was a unstated war hero. Anyone that knows the story of the bridges at Arnhem and knows of Sgt Baskeyfield , well my Grandad helped this man (http://www.arnhemarchive.org/john_baskeyfield.htm) defend against Panzer tanks and also buried his corpse after one of them fired a shell directly into him.
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Post by: Cannikin on March 23, 2004, 08:44:39 am: My great-uncle is Admiral Yeh Chang-tung, former commander in chief of Taiwan/ROC's navy.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 23, 2004, 09:28:47 am: Well my father was Pertti Reponen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720091/)

If you want to read up on him, you can check out the biography written of him here (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/prepo.htm).

My second cousin (http://www.17bedfordrow.co.uk/member.asp?memberid=1) is also one of England's top child, medical and human rights lawyers. He also had something to do with the Hutton inquiriy and often pops up Sky News as a guest.

Well thats who I'm related to atleast. Though I've met quite a few famous people in my time...
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 23, 2004, 03:03:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet
The O'Dea family has a castle, thats about it.
You're lucky. They took away our castle after we supported the Stuarts.
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Post by: demon442 on March 23, 2004, 10:28:19 pm: I asked some family members and found a few things out on my mother's side. My great-great-grandmother traced our line back and Pocohantas (Indian guide for colonial settelers) was mentioned as family. Also, Johnny Appleseed's real name was John Chapman, most of my mother's family are Chapman's. Unfortunately, 'John Chapman' was the 'John Doe' of the 17-1800's.
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Post by: Thorn on March 23, 2004, 10:54:28 pm: Does Leif Erricson count?
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Post by: Culando on March 23, 2004, 11:07:57 pm: My grandma served Jerry Seinfeld lunch in high school. Does that count?
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Post by: Odyssey on March 24, 2004, 04:20:55 pm: [color=cc9900]I believe one of my relations is to blame for Woody Woodpecker.[/color]
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Post by: Sheepy on March 24, 2004, 04:33:38 pm: Im related to Jane Seymore, (Henry VIII #3 wife (she died giving birth)) on my mothers side, other than that i dunno. We Parringtons are few and far between