Who in your family history is famous? Notorious?

Question

Geneology or Family history if you like is very big in my family.
We have gone back nearly 1,000 years and it is interesting who pops up,

Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island, All of the Barons of the Magnecarta, Lady Godiva, Prince John, and VIkings, Vikings, Vikings,. What have you found about your past?

Tell Matticus he WANTS to KNOW.

Answer 1

The writers Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner, on my maternal grandmother's side.

On my maternal grandpa's side, someone who founded the Baptist churches in the South.

I don't know of any "notorious" relatives.....I guess the serial killers must be good at what they're doing, because none have been caught. :)

Now you KNOW, Matticus, and knowledge is power. :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day! :)


p.s.--Matticus is a rockin' name... mind if I consider it for my future children?

Answer 2

Lily Langtry (Jersey Lily) She was a famous actress from the Channel Islands. She was also mistress to King George. My Father Will Skinner, he was a famous Montreal piano player in the 40`s who also played with Harry James on the road.

Answer 3

Ok, I have 2. My Great x4 Grandfather was one of the Founders of Eugene, Oregon. And Somewhere on the family tree on my moms side, I am also related to Kit Carson, the Founder of Carson City, The State Capital of Nevada.

Answer 4

lol - funny you mention Lady Godiva....because she actually is in my family background.

John "Son of the bishop" is my great - what ever - grandfather on the side of my mom...Direct descendant. He was called son of the bishop, because he was an illegitimate child of on of lady Godiva's great grandsons, who had gone into the church. - Sold into indentured servitude and forced to work in the tobacco fields of the south when the Americas were first being founded. That's how part of my family line got to America. or so my uncle tells me, and he has all these charts and genealogy studies to back it up.

Answer 5

This doesn't go back in my genealogy far but Former Lakers basketball star Jerry West is my second cousin on my fathers side of the family . He is in the basketball hall of fame . I haven't really traced my family roots back very far only to know they originally came from England and Wales .

Answer 6

My family history was dated all the way back to the 1500's and a distant relative of mine later became the husband of Pocahontas. Not the movie star husband, John Smith. Her second husband, John Rolfe.

Answer 7

My great-great-great grandfather General George Minty, captured Jefferson Davis, sadly he is never mentioned in the text books because he had 10 kids with his wife, and 10 with (i think) his wife's sister, or his sister. It was kept a secret until he died when both wives filed for the inheritance.
Related to Lawrence Washington, George Washington's half brother.
I know one was born in Edinburgh castle, not sure, but we're a bunch of crazy Scots,
My Great Grand Father fought in WWI, and wrote a bunch of books after, i know one is "Mike of Company D"
And to some guy who used to cook lobsters on the hood of his car....
And not by blood, but by marriage, Keauna(sp) Reeves

Answer 8

I don't think anyone is famous that I know of, but I know some relatives came over on the Mayflower, plus some of my Italian family is supposedly in the Mafia over in Palermo. My family is notorious for having a very bad temper.

Answer 9

My (distant)uncles was one of the guys who started up the pony express, There is a museum in Lawrence Kansas named after another relative of mine (another uncle).
My Dads side of the family, there is a castle in Europe where my ancestors lived and defended the royal family of France.

Answer 10

That family history is very interesting! The only one that I have heard about through family members, is that we are related to the "Bartlett" who signed the Declaration of Independence.