the famous ancestors thread

[village idiot]

don't think we've had one of these yet...

who are you descended from / related to...

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

[stifler]

James Boswell. The Diarist.

My Grandfather holds the title Auchinlech after the family seat(house).

[MaineRd]

Anne Hyde , she married in to some sort of Royal family .

[Vron]

Captain Oates of the "I'm going outside I may be sometime" Scott expedition. My great great uncle.

[sneijder]

My great uncle was Sir Donald Finlay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Finlay

Took the Olympic oath in London and refused to shake Hitlers hand in '36 (probably a tall tale that bit).

Lived near to Chequers and apparently lifted a full pre WW2 Nazi dinner service that is stashed in the family somewhere. (that story wheeled out from time to time is 99% utter tosh).

[jessica]

Top of the tree is King Edward III.................

Great Great Grandfather was Admiral Cochrane..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thomas_Cochrane...

;)

Edited by jessica on Saturday 22 November 21:46

[mybrainhurts]

village idiot said:

don't think we've had one of these yet...

who are you descended from / related to...

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

.....Says the village idiot..

[village idiot]

mybrainhurts said:

village idiot said:

don't think we've had one of these yet...

who are you descended from / related to...

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

.....Says the village idiot..

errrr.. yes?

[Tunku]

I'm descended from some Hungarian noble bloke who was on a ship that was dashed against the rocks in a storm on the north shores of the Firth of Forth. He was a nobleman of the court of St. Margaret who had come over to see her hubby to be, Malcolm of Scotland. According to family papers, this was in 1056, but some historians differ.
Anyway. my family is ultimately considered to be the one that introduced Catholicism to Scotland, which I find is a great irony, considering I am not Catholic, but I married a Catholic wife.

Edited by Tunku on Saturday 22 November 22:01

[pincher]

William Gladstone for me. Not 100% sure how but it's something like Great Grandmother's cousin or 2nd cousin.

[Tunku]

pincher said:

William Gladstone for me. Not 100% sure how but it's something like Great Grandmother's cousin or 2nd cousin.

William Gladstone was the chap who founded my school. Small world.

[Maxf]

We don't talk about Great Grandpappy Adolf that much, but I think he was quite big in European politics at some time.

[mybrainhurts]

village idiot said:

mybrainhurts said:

village idiot said:

don't think we've had one of these yet...

who are you descended from / related to...

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

.....Says the village idiot..

errrr.. yes?

Just tickled me that the Fokker driving Red Baron begat a village idiot...

[G'kar]

Great Grandfather was a Knight and MP.

[Tunku]

Vron said:

Captain Oates of the "I'm going outside I may be sometime" Scott expedition. My great great uncle.

Really? That's a damn good bit of family history to tell the kids.

[village idiot]

I've got fairly direct descendancy from the last of the German Kaisers (which in turn puts me across to the British royals by one additional marriage... that's pretty cool... however, distant descendancy to Joachin Ribbentrop isn't...

oh well,,, can't have them all...

at least my great great great uncle was a bit of a lad... quite the fly-boy until his Zeppelin was shot down over the thames!

:-)

[Simpo Two]

village idiot said:

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

I wasn't aware he had childen, but may be wrong...

So... you're related to a bloke who shot down a bloke wot went to my school (Jack Reading), eh?

[mybrainhurts]

FIGHT....

[village idiot]

Simpo Two said:

village idiot said:

i'll kick off...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (here's a hint... he flew a bright red fighter in WW1)

I wasn't aware he had childen, but may be wrong...

So... you're related to a bloke who shot down a bloke wot went to my school (Jack Reading), eh?

i don't know whether he did... my late grandfather put together a book of our family tree, and one of the branches headed in the direction of Ricthofen, with others heading in the directions of those other people mentioned in my earlier post...

it's all pretty cool really with some real heroes in the distant family... all bar one avenue (as mentioned before)... hey ho

[308mate]

Distantly related to the girl Lewis Carrol (Mr Dodgeson) wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about. The name Liddell (the girl's surname) is still handed down in my family each generation.

Edited by 308mate on Saturday 22 November 22:13