Genealogy Chat

i have relatives called teresa green (trees a green)and wayne king (self explanitary)ha ha ha !

I have a Robert Burns from Ayr unfortunatley the birth date is 23 years too late

I have a Kevin Keegan in my tree - I know he's not THE Kevin Keegan but he's about the same age and born in Liverpool!

Jill

my late father in law was named james stewart.

My family are rather boring really, just the Liz Taylor and a Clara Butt.
The Clara Butt (not sure if she's mine) was a famous singer at the turn of the 20th century. Aparently Clara was 6' tall as well, which I find the most interesting thing. The average height for a man was probably around 5'8" or 9".
Jen

I have the same famous Australian Cricketer (as Deb I suspect) who was Captain of the Aussie Team in the late 50's early 60's. His mother is still alive and she's 103!
Also recently deceased motor racing legend Peter Brock.
And most famously so far but very distantly ... of Clavering Essex .... Sarah Chesham also known as Sally Arsenic (hung in 1851 for the arsenic death of her husband). More details attached http://www.essex.police.uk/museum/history_05.htm

I think Fanny Dyer has to take the biscuit here. I do have another, still alive he was a member of Unit 4 Plus Two, remember Concrete and Clay!!!

I have 5 Mr Bean's in my tree
Sheila

Bill Gates!
and
John Savage.

In 1586 Mary Queen of Scots had been illegally held prisoner by Elizabeth I of England for eighteen years. Many Catholics regarded Elizabeth as illegitimate and Mary as the legitimate Queen of England and Ireland. Even if she was not, she was next in line to the throne. However, she was a Catholic, and neither Elizabeth nor her ministers relished the prospect of a Catholic succession.

Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Secretary of State and chief of her espionage, used two agents provocateurs, Gilbert Gifford and Bernard Maude, to manipulate respectively two men, JOHN SAVAGE and John Ballard, who believed that the killing of a tyrant was lawful.

(Whether Gifford had Walsingham's authorization when he first approached Savage to incite him to kill Elizabeth is not clear, but Gifford was subsequently Walsingham's double agent.) When Walsingham learned that Anthony Babington, a young Catholic gentlemen (who had corresponded secretly with Mary before by smuggling letters from others to her), together with some of his friends was plotting to rescue Mary from her imprisonment in Chartley Hall, Walsingham managed to combine the two plots.

Babington's conscience was troubled about the rightness of assassinating Elizabeth. Therefore in July of 1586 he decided to write to Mary, whom he regarded as his rightful sovereign, to ask her to authorize the assassination. In his letter he wrote of plans of ten gentlemen and a hundred followers who would rescue Mary from her imprisonment and of six gentlemen who would, with Mary's authorization, assassinate Elizabeth. After being arrested and tortured JOHN SAVAGE was Hung Drawn and Quartered

i have James Bond as wittness on one of my rellies marriage cert
joyce from hollandx

I was researching for a colleague and sadly had to tell him that a family legend of relationship to a famous aviator was a myth. On the other hand I discovered that one of his ancestors was a captain of one of Nelson's ships at the battle of the Nile. He was killed in the battle and there's a great big memorial to him in St Paul's Cathedral!

Cherry, a friend of my mother, had been told by her mother that she was descended from Lord Elgin (of Elgin Marbles fame). It turned out that her ancestor simply shared the same name, Thomas Bruce, but he was a general labourer! Cherry became quite hostile to me after I gave her the proof and we haven't been in contact since!!!

This happens a lot. A colleague was very disappointed to find that she had no connection to the actress Ellen Terry - her Terry ancestor was a tanner from Canterbury! I think it's very strange when parents pretend to their children that they have illustrious ancestors.

I have 2 Golden Balls, father and son in my tree, both direct ancestors

I have been told my 3x g grandfather worked for King George 111, unfortunately Windsor Castle Archives don't have a record for this.
I am a very distant cousin of Cathy Lesurf lead singer with Fiddlers Dram in the seventies.
I have James Taylor & 2 Richard Thomas' ( good night John Boy)

i have micheal jackson in my tree nowt to brag about thou.

I have Isaac Newton too!!!

Marilyn

Andy
I have a Fanny Pain in my tree!!, perhaps she was a nurse lol.
Jenny

Oh Andy, hubby and I choked on our coffee at your famous name.

Mine as many others - Elizabeth Taylor.

LOL Andy

I have a Fanny Dyer. Don't know whether that's a name or profession

I was looking at my tree and being avid evetonians my son was pleased to see an andrew johnson, not the real one....but my cliam to fame is a knight, a real one as well.
kaz x