Any ancestors who are famous?

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FormbyGirl

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Do you have any ancestors who have any kind of claim to fame? If you have done a layout of them, then post it.
 


This layout tells the story of my grandmother's family. They began the first lifeboat station in the world in Formby, Lancashire (it is now Formby, Merseyside). Her uncles were from the "Lifeboat Aindows." My great great grandfather was an "Asparagus Aindow."
 
Just started a search for ancestors on my fathers side and nothing yet.

However my hubby has his genealogy done all the way back to 1600's and we know that his great x ? grandfather was brothers with the famous explorer " Sir Martin Frobisher" a descendant of Britain who set out looking for the North-West Passage landed in north-eastern Canada, around today's Resolution Island and Frobisher Bay in the southwest corner of Baffin Island.
 
See - that is AWESOME. Doesn't it make you want to look him up and scrap a page on him!

My brother's ex-wife (who is totally awesome!) is decended from Archbishop William Laud's brother. William Laud was the most powerful man in England during the so-called "Eleven Years Tyranny" from 1629-1640, archbishop of Canterbury William Laud was thrown from power in 1640 and executed on Tower Hill during the Civil War. He remains a controversial figure in English history, either denounced as a tyrant and bigot or extolled as a statesman and martyr.

He was not executed in the Tower of London, but on Tower Hill is almost as good!!
 
William Penn is a great-great-great (maybe more greats, I'm not sure how many) uncle in my husband's family.
 
Why do our husbands get the awesome ancestors! Mine were peasants, his were lords, ladies and kings!!
 
I should know this better but Abraham Lincoln is in my family tree. Also Ephraim K Hanks but that is someone only Utahn's really know. :)
 
Not that I can document. My Mama said... we were related to one of the fellows from the Revolutionary War that played the fife. She purchased the fife plate. I have it.
But...even with Ancesty dot com I cannot prove.

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It took my husband years to go through his ancestry and prove definitively that he had an ancestor who was in revolutionary war. It took WAY more than ancestry.com (although that is MY preferred way of proving everything haha) I love ancestry. It might take time, Michelle, but you may get there one day.

msbrad said:
Not that I can document. My Mama said... we were related to one of the fellows from the Revolutionary War that played the fife. She purchased the fife plate. I have it.
But...even with Ancesty dot com I cannot prove.

m
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I have just recently had my Ancestry DNA done. I am learning more about my Father's family... Possible major league baseball players on his side. On my mother's side there was someone from early american history that had something to do with politics... still gathering all the facts.
 
Been working on my famiily tree via ancestry on & off for the past 3 years now. Have hit a road block with a bunch of family, need to renew my subscription when funds allow. Have not found anyone famous as yet but I did find my Grandad's great grandfather who escaped Poland & moved to Australia. Grandad used to tell us he escaped dressed as a woman along with another relative. Have just recently tracked down a living relative that can tell me more about that side of the family, so that will be interesting
 
What a great idea for a layout!
I am a descendant of Rebecca Nurse who was hanged for being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.

I will have to visit the museum and do some more research around town there when I go home in April.
I think this would be a great piece of family history to scrap for my daughter.
 
msbrad said:
Not that I can document. My Mama said... we were related to one of the fellows from the Revolutionary War that played the fife. She purchased the fife plate. I have it.
But...even with Ancesty dot com I cannot prove.

m
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Michelle,
You can use the DAR and SAR websites to find your relatives that served in any of the old wars too.
Here's the DAR site - https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1

Now, see if I can find the SAR - this is their homepage. https://www.sar.org/

My husband (so far) has 3 US presidents that he is distantly related to - not direct descendants however. But when your family settled in the New England states as early as the 1600-1700s, you will find connections to many noteworthy folks!
I've found one set of 5th great grandparents who were scalped/murdered by the Indians in Pennsylvania - just a day or two after the Indians had been invited to share a meal with them!
One of my 9th great-grandmothers was tried for witchcraft in 1692 but was acquitted after numerous friends in the villages petitioned in her favor.
The list goes on - none were famous outside their small world, but I am collecting information so that I can do a page or two on each of them. Genealogy is a long work in progress! Good luck to all those who love genealogy!!

Jeannie
PS - if you have not had your DNA tested, please consider doing so. Finally had mine done in January and am finding Polish cousins here in the US! We can't fully connect our families yet because none of us have found the records or our great-grandparents in the old country. But with being 3rd or 4th cousin connections, we are just a generation or two away from finding our common links.
 
Kellie! How interesting. You must give us the scoop when you have all the information.

ScrappyPenguin said:
I have just recently had my Ancestry DNA done. I am learning more about my Father's family... Possible major league baseball players on his side. On my mother's side there was someone from early american history that had something to do with politics... still gathering all the facts.
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That is fascinating. Sometimes interesting stories and family legends are far more interesting than actual famous people!

Sams Scraps said:
Been working on my famiily tree via ancestry on & off for the past 3 years now. Have hit a road block with a bunch of family, need to renew my subscription when funds allow. Have not found anyone famous as yet but I did find my Grandad's great grandfather who escaped Poland & moved to Australia. Grandad used to tell us he escaped dressed as a woman along with another relative. Have just recently tracked down a living relative that can tell me more about that side of the family, so that will be interesting
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It really would. I can only imagine how interesting it would be for a girl to read about an ancestor like that. It makes history a lot more interesting.

elenasworld said:
What a great idea for a layout!
I am a descendant of Rebecca Nurse who was hanged for being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.

I will have to visit the museum and do some more research around town there when I go home in April.
I think this would be a great piece of family history to scrap for my daughter.
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I just found out (via Ancestry and my DNA tying into someone else's there as a 2nd cousin) that my 8x Great Grandfather was Dutch, worked for the West India Company and was an early settler of Manhattan after it was bought from the Indians. He then helped settle the "wilderness" of NJ, buying land for a farm - ironically, I drove by the "family" cemetery for YEARS on my way to work and never knew.

He sided with the Brits in the Revolutionary War, was a colonel, and was run out of the US after the Brits lost the war. He settled in Ontario, was granted land by the governor (?) of Ontario to start a settlement, and ultimately founded the town of Port Ryerse. I have a photo of his headstone; I'll have to scrap that!

Fun topic!
 
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