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Offline andrewalston

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #45 on: Monday 02 January 17 10:05 GMT (UK) »
I've just been putting together a tree for my best friend from school. He's a vicar, and so I don't need to explain about registers.  :)

It turns out that he is related to opera singer Amanda Roocroft.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #46 on: Monday 02 January 17 10:41 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Ruskie on Thursday 15 September 16 09:54 BST (UK)
My daughter's boyfriend is related to a few interesting famous people, including https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsford_Smith
What a legend!  ;D

Our neighbour is related to Charles Kingsford Smith too (his Uncle I think)!

Mostly ag labs in my family ... there was a murderer and a bigamist, but not "famous".

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #47 on: Monday 02 January 17 22:16 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Guy Etchells on Monday 26 December 16 21:40 GMT (UK)
I am related to Elizabeth Taylor.




She is my Great Great Grandmother, no not that Elizabeth Taylor the one born in 1841. ;)  ;)
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Elizabeth Taylors are 2 for a penny. My wife had three and I have two
Allen(Dorset),Barker(Essex), Batham, Burris, Champelovier(London, Clark (Suffolk), Clay (London), Elliott (Wilts), Faith (Sussex), Hawes (London), Heinemann (Germany),  Hussey (Dorset), Mason (London), Myers (Yorks/Lancs), Parker (Yorks), Phillips(Hamps),  Smith,(Wilts) Wingate (Sussex) , Wiseman, Townson Yorks), Want(Wilts) and more

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 04 January 17 19:06 GMT (UK) »
I'm also the granddaughter of Elizabeth Taylor,born 1873.
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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 04 January 17 19:35 GMT (UK) »
Elizabeth Taylor was prolific, wasn't she - she was also my gt gt gt grandmother    ::)
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #50 on: Wednesday 04 January 17 19:38 GMT (UK) »
I am descended from the Gilpin family of Kentmere Hall and Valley, Westmorland. A few well knowns from the family are George Gilpin 1514-1602 diplomat for Elizabeth I, his brother Bernard Gilpin 1517-1583 'Apostle of the North', William Gilpin 1724-1804 cleric, artist and author, Sawrey Gilpin 1733-1807 animal artist, William Sawrey Gilpin 1762-1843 landscape artist and via members who emigrated to America, George Washington 1732-1799 president of USA
Please don't ask for the exact relationships  :)
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.

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Re: Has any one found any one famous - or infamous in your family
« Reply #51 on: Thursday 05 January 17 08:10 GMT (UK) »
Aye - old man Shaw Macduff and it's been one 'ell' of ride - thanks  8)
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