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Have you found anyone famous in your family tree?
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Topic: Found Anyone Famous (Read 8964 times)
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toni*
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Posts: 8677
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- Connaire -
isn't that a film ?
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles. SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs 1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on There is no current treatment http://www.jtsma.org.uk/http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex Punnett-Sussex, Bear- Monkleigh |
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Maggie1895
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My grandfather (standing on the right in this christening photo) was Richard Christopher Owen, named for Richard Christopher Mansell, the Uncle who had brought his Mother up, and so my Gr.Gr.Uncle.
Richard Christopher Mansell (he always used both names) was b.1814 in Liverpool, and a railway engineer heavily involved in the railway boom in Victorian times. He had a full time employed post (Locomotive Superintendant of South Eastern Railways) he was also an inventor, and amongst other things held the patent for the Mansell Wheel.
There's a nice picture of a train with one of his engines in 1855 in a book by John Betjeman, and some more detailed information in the Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Some of his engines were 0-4-4 (which means a lot to railway enthusiasts but nothing to me) though I do like his naming them 'Gunboat'.
Sadly though on his Wikipedia entry you learn that 'none of his engines had a distinguished service life'. Does that mean the wheels have come off my claim to fame?
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MarieC
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Posts: 3298
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That's an interesting and unusual ancestor to have, Colin! 
MarieC
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MarieC
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Posts: 3298
In Queensland, Oz
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Look at it this way - it certainly adds colour and interest to your family tree!!!! 
MarieC
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Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
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