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In studying your family tree, have you found any interesting ancestors that are, perhaps, 5th cousins twice removed (whatever that means!), or, in layman's terms, perhaps your great x 5 (or more) grandfather/grandmother's siblings who did 'interesting' things?
Or did your distant ancestors' siblings marry into an 'interesting' family? (therefore, not really your 'rellies', but hey, who's going to notice!) :-D

If only certain registers hadn't been known to be missing then I could possibly prove a very grand connection.

My grandfather held a major sporting record for a long time

Do you know what in?

'Married in the double'.

Ooo-err Dermot. :-D :-D :-D

Hi Maggie

Yes I do. He should have competed in the Olympics but his brother died about that time.

Doesn't it say anything about it (and his record) in local newspapers?

On my husband side Philemon Wright...did some pioneer things in Canada..no doubt his memorials will be toppled one day soon and the High school renamed :-)

Hi Maggie

Oh yes. National, local & sporting. Got fed up reading the results in the specialist paper. We thought he had been picked for the 1908 and found the proof. Such a shame he couldn’t go - especially as he was a Londoner himself.

It would also be very interesting how another relief became so wealthy. But we do know much of it disappeared in Chancery Court.
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My maternal gran's maiden name is the same as a well-known (in earlier times) hereditary peer who was somewhat notorious as a 'rake', amongst other things!

I don't think there's any family connection, even on the 'wrong side of the blanket' - but who knows
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Sheila :-D :-D

Two of my great grandmother’s nephews went to president Roosevelt and said Hawaii would side with America in WW2.

...so you could say they were advisors to Roosevelt, Tawny :-D :-D

My 4xgt. grandfather was a friend of Charles Wesley, got converted and was the founder of methodism in his Derbyshire village.

At one point he was stoned for his beliefs and carried the scars for the rest of his life.

Caroline - certainly a pioneer!! :-0

Andysmum- he must have had strong beliefs, :-)

Jack Crayston, the footballer who played for Arsenal then became a manager, was Granny's 'cousin'. I don't follow football so never knew, but another 'cousin' told me, and then of course I was able to research him and place him on my tree.

Also, we have a family name Meres that has been used as a boy's middle name, Mum had a number of cousins who used it, but no one was able to say where it came from. So after researching the name, it came from a direct line ancestor called Sarah Meres 1762-1835. Her grandfather John Meres 1733-1776 was the proprieter of the London evening post. His grandfather was Sir Thomas Meres 1634-1715 from Kirton, Lincs, who was MP for Lincoln for many years, plus other high posts in London.

So, you are a direct descendent of the Meres, but JackCrayston is a distant 'rellie' :-D

Yes, I've had a flick through my tree but can't just think of any others.

One of my father's 2 or 3 xgt uncles emigrated from Buckinghamshire to Australia in the mid-1840s on an Agricultural Scheme. He travelled at around the same time as one of his sisters, both with spouses and children, and following one of their uncles who had done the same on the same sort of scheme about 10 years before.

All ended up in different States. But the gt uncle is the one I've followed. He settled in Adelaide, had more children with his wife, and some of the older children married.

Then they ended up around 1855 on a Mormon ship going to California (and supposedly to Utah to proselytize, so travelled for free, with his wife, younger children, and another baby born on the ship but buried in Hawaii.

The family ended up staying in the San Bernadino area of California. By the time he died in 1910 and his wife in 1904, they were acclaimed as well-respected pioneer settlers of the San Bernadino Valley. They left a large family behind!

Definitely pioneers, Sheila!