Famous Ancestors.

[Caran]

I know on my fathers side he was related to the old music hall star
Beatrice Lilley.
On my mother's side there is a connection to Maples stores.
I've never traced anything back.
Have you any famous ancestors?

[DTCwordfan]

Lord Graham (2nd son) was at Uni with me - Donald......nice guy.

Have you seen Rob Roy the film (great movie) as Montrose features in that?

[Rockrose]

I am related to Fletcher Christian via my paternal grandmother.

[Prudie]

I've always been told I was related to Captain Morgan on my Welsh paternal side. Probably untrue

[10ClarionSt]

One of my ancestors was a founding member of the Oldham CO-Operative Society, about the same time as the Pioneers of Rochdale. They also had a large chain of furniture shops which was later sold to a company called Beddoes, if anyone in the NW as heard of them. Having made loads of money from the sale of their chain of shops, the family then proceeded to piddle it all against the wall. There goes my inheritance!

[ummmm]

DT...I'll put that on my watch list

[Eleena]

Some history Clarion ...
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/shutters-go-down-on-an-era-as-beddoes-359291.amp

[jno]

your Scottish blood's not necessarily filtered out, ummmm. Some DNA sticks around, some doesn't.

[Traci66]

My husband was related to the boxer Gene Tummy, who went on to marry one of the Lauder family.

[Sqad]

Gene Tunney ^^^ unless you meant his brother whos was grossly overweight...;-)

[Baldric]

Yes, but we share the same Surname so will not be giving it, he was a Engineer.

[Calicogirl]

Are you Isambard Kingdom Baldric by any chance? :)

[douglas9401]

Scotty off t'Enterprise?

Ye canny change the laws of Answerbank.

[Peter Pedant]

// My grandfather was in the Second World War. He might just have met someone famous //

my father as a POW in germany met the surivors of the Warsaw uprising 1944 ( NOT the warsaw ghetto - there werent any survivors 1942) and said they were the bravest men he had ever met - incl. Michaelovsky-Bor who was famous to the poles but virtually no one else

[Cloverjo]

I’m related to David Livingstone somehow, through my paternal grandmother.

[pixie374]

My sister did some of our ancestry. The closest famous was Magnus Magnusson, also the kings of Sweden and Iceland within a few generations.

[sanmac]

The closest I can come is that one of my aunts on my father's side was a governess to Lord Brabazon's children, and traveled all over the world with him and them and made a pretty penny by doing so. Now I know that's not being related to someone famous...But it's closeies innit?