[Misc] Interesting or Famous Ancestors

[portlock seagull]

Played in goal 164 times for Brighton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Baldwin_(footballer)

I’d say we have a winner, thread closed! Wow, that’s is a brilliant connection you have to our great club. 164 appearances. Shocking goal scoring record mind…

 

[portlock seagull]

You would all be too young to have known of him.

He found fame in the 1920s and was still involved in the late 50s. But he was more prominent to the public from 1923-1938 but on the inside he was top of his game until the late 50s.

Harold Wilson turned him down for honours hence me wanting to ram Wilson pipe, while it was still burning, up his cheeks.

Can't give much more.

Oswald Moseley

 

[portlock seagull]

My ancestor designed the first purpose-built lifeboats.

Love this, that’s what I’m talking about.

 

[AmexRuislip]

You would all be too young to have known of him.

He found fame in the 1920s and was still involved in the late 50s. But he was more prominent to the public from 1923-1938 but on the inside he was top of his game until the late 50s.

Harold Wilson turned him down for honours hence me wanting to ram Wilson pipe, while it was still burning, up his cheeks.

Can't give much more.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Oswald Moseley

No, but there is a tenuous connection!

 

[Bry Nylon]

My ancestor designed the first purpose-built lifeboats.

I’d imagine you’d need to have a flare for that sort of thing?

 

[Doonhamer7]

My great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather had the delight of being part of the highland clearances forced off the land by the English Duke of Sutherland

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Charlemagne













As is every other European living today.

You're kidding

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Head Doctor of the Titanic when it sunk.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-francis-norman-oloughlin.html

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crinson

Mine played in goal for the Albion 5 times and was at the club when we won the charity shield.

 

[portlock seagull]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crinson

Mine played in goal for the Albion 5 times and was at the club when we won the charity shield.

Flipping heck Tucker! Our only major silverware, and you’re related! Impressive…

 

[Comrade Sam]

I don't want to upset any nationalists or racists, but we're all related many times over. In just a thousand years you have roughly 40 generations of parents. That's 2 to the power of 40. Well over a million, million ancestors and if you go back 1020 years you double it and add the previous total. Obviously far more people than have ever existed. The numbers become incomprehensible quite fast. That is why 'Who do you think you are?' is such a successful formula. However, I descend from the illegitimate offspring of Samuel Gompass the founder of the American Federation of Labor. Also discovered that in the 17th century a Godwin appears. So I am related (as is everyone) to the last Saxon Kings. Also in the 20th century alone I have Polish Jewish, Irish Jamaican, Panamanian Jewish, Irish, English Orphan, and Dutch Jewish ancestors. Whilst my wife has Cypriot Turks, Anatolian Turks and Bulgarian Turks. My fair skinned blond daughters hide it well.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Relative started famous clothing brand names after our surname

 

[Mr Bridger]

9th Great Grandfather on my fathers side was this chap.
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634 – 11 July 1700) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for Chester and later Beaumaris, and was appointed Speaker for two English Parliaments during the reign of Charles II. He later served as Solicitor General during the reign of James II. Williams had a bitter personal and professional rivalry with Judge Jeffreys (the hanging judge).

 

[BN9 BHA]

Relative started famous clothing brand names after our surname

Paul Smith?

 

[lawros left foot]

On my Dads side, absolutely nobody interesting at all . Just good old Sussex farming stock going back to the 15th century.

On my Mums side, a long distance cousin, was Mayor of Croydon.

The shame of it.



She also had a cousin who died on HMS Hood.

 

[Insel affe]

Head Doctor of the Titanic when it sunk.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-francis-norman-oloughlin.html

Something to be proud of.
As an officer of the ship… he made no attempt to escape when the accident happened, but bent all his energies to helping others. It is said that he did not even don a lifebelt. It was a fitting end to an unselfish and self-sacrificing career, one marked at every step by charity, not only that expected of the doctor, but signalled by so liberal giving of money as to leave him usually straitened in his circumstances… — Irish Independent, 7 May 1912

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My mum's cousin Jimmy won The Nobel Prize For Medicine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam... Whyte Black OM,adrenaline on the human heart.

 

[Let's Have A Winner!]

Sir Isaac Newton on my dad's side. Possibly...one of the branches is slightly iffy due to the records being a little erratic in the 1700's with a lot of people with similar names in the same place...

 

[Giraffe]

Head Doctor of the Titanic when it sunk.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-francis-norman-oloughlin.html

Impressive.