« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 11 December 18 15:52 GMT (UK) »
I am a distant relative of the Krays as said, and also to Patsy Kensit. When she featured on WDYTYA, I probed further and found she and I both descend from John and Sarah Sparkes of Finchingfield, Essex. And her dad was an associate of the Krays.
For instance you may know a local family that can be quite rough and ready, but you socialise with one of 2 of them who are not as bad, and one of them asks your help in doing their family tree, then you find that their great gran had the same distinctive surname as one of yours, and you are related to the family.
Many people must move to areas of the country where they have some ancestors from, and any of their neighbours are distant rellies, and they dont even know it. And the distant cousins can be doctors, police officers, lawyers, millionaires even.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain