Famous Names In Your Family
 

Currently undertaking that age old hobby you take up when you realise you are probably in the second half of your life.. tracing family roots. :D

My great grandma was called Elizabeth Taylor. Any famous names in your family tree ?

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George Formby. He was related to my Grandma

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My mother does it...

Gracey Fields , Robert Peel , Daniel Thwaites , King Henry VIII :D

If you are starting doing it dave no doubt my mum will give you a hand if you get stuck.

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Bernie Nolan, that was me before I got married

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Hetta Place - wife of Butch Cassidy (or was it Sundance? - or both!)
That lying toadie - my 2nd ex, claimed she was his emigrated great aunt
Never bothered to find out whether it was true

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I've been doing the same for a year are so, It's a ****** getting older. I have a Elizabeth Taylor as well, She became a Birtwhistle.


Rumour as it that one of my forbearers (sp) James Archibald Douglas, had it off with Mary Queen of Scots.....

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My mum was called Millicent Martin............and my nephew, who is still with us, is Dean Martin.

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supposedly even tho i hate to admit this but supposedly the name Chris Waddle comes into mine supposedly some kind of famous footballer.

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Our family is decended from Hepplewhite, the furniture design/ manufacturer, my brothers second name is Hepplewhite. Hepplewhite, was as well known as Sheraton in the classic furniture trade.

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who is bernie nolan??? as in famous i mean#?

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I should have said one of "The Nolan Sisters", that probably doesn't help if you are youngish!!

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The Nolans were a pop group.

The seventies equivalent to Girls Aloud...except they all had Irish accents, and came from Blackpool.

Bernie Nolan has gone on to carve out a career as a stage and television actor, appearing in Brookside and The Bill, and Blood Brothers amongst other things.

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He's also a footballer, down under.:D

Bernie Nolan (footballer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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One of the Nolan sisters (colleen) does Loose women on morning T.V

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doubt if theres any famous names in my lot! notorious maybe.:D

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Hmmm . . . do Adam and Eve count? LOL Oh, someone a bit more recent . . . okay, how 'bout Noah and his loverly wife? :p

Brian

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Strange that, I have them in my family tree. We must be long lost cousins :D

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Since I am an atheist - my ancestor is a microbe transported to Earth on a comet

PS -google 'Panspermia'

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Not a personal one, this, but I used to work with a chap named Bond. His dad was called James Bond and his dad's sister (married name) was Elizabeth Taylor. They witnessed a car accident and had to give their names to the police who almost arrested them for wasting police time. :D

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That's a good one :D-- I remember another true story which happened to a local.
When stopped for a motoring offence and asked for his name etc, he replied ---

"Emeric Eccles, pharmacutical chemist of Oswaldtwistle"

The policeman sighed and put away his notebook. :D

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Am I being a bit slow? I don't get that one, Margaret.:(

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The policeman couldn't spell - it was a long time ago (when I was a child in Ossy, and it 'went the rounds')
Mr Eccles is now deceased and perhaps policemen are better at spelling nowadays :D

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the dummy probably couldn,t spell that gobfull lily.:)oops ya beat me margaret lol

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Lol.:p

That may have been when he crashed into my Dad's new sports car, which he did in 1962.

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It was earlier than that -- he had glasses like pint glass bottoms and got stopped fairly often. I don't think he would pass a test by todays rules :D

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I remember Emeric Eccles. My dad knew him well and it wasn't until I heard him, one day, refer to "Emeric" that I realised what his real name was. Up to the age of 10, I though he was called Emery Kettles. :D