2007-05-07 16:14:50 · 57 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Macauley Culkin is my grandfather
2007-05-07 16:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by Rich C 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Infamous is the mot juste in the case of "my lot" (as my husband calls them) I have a 3x Gt. uncle who was sentenced to death at Taunton Assizes in 1829 for the crime of stealing £200 in Promissory Notes. The Sentence was commuted to "Life" in Australia whence he arrived in December 1829, eventually receiving a "Conditional Pardon" after working at a homestead in the Wellington Valley. I have another ancestor who featured in a Government Report on the employment of women and children in the mines of South Gloucestershire - John Lines, coal haulier, was 13 years old when interviewed. He said the hauliers' leather girdle didn't hurt him; he had been working there for 4 years, did an 8 hour shift (6 days a week) after walking 4 miles to the pit each morning (and back at night); he had learned to read and write a little at a Wesleyan Sunday School. I have an ex Leader of the Liberal Party on my Tree, a Lord Chief Justice of Appeal (not blood related - one of my lot married him), one of the founders of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and possibly a Sir Lewis Pollard - Circuit Judge. The grandchildren will also be able to boast that their gramps designed the electronics for the machine which compacted the first ever Viagra tablet for Pfizer!
2016-05-17 23:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by hallie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly famous, but in the movie The Sound of Music, there is a scene where the Von Trapp family is hiding in the church cemetary. My grandfather is buried there, at the time of the movie. My great aunt also knew the real Maria Von Trapp.
2007-05-07 16:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well...My uncle "Morris Martin" was a major league pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodger's and went on to the St. Louis Cardinals. Kinda famous.....
2007-05-07 16:21:05 · answer #4 · answered by Fireman T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Profit Mohamad!
2007-05-07 16:17:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of... My great uncle Lewis was a WW1 War hero. He got the medal of honor. Being the 1st American to cross a certain bridge in Germany I think.. Don't remember too much about it. I do there use to be a show on TV called "You were there" And he was featured on it.....
2007-05-07 16:20:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not famous, but I am related to a Duke from a territory in Germany.
2007-05-07 16:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by Lowa 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my mother's side of the family came over on the Mayflower. Her relative was John Billington. He was the first Englishman to be convicted of murder in what would become the United States and the first to be hanged for any crime in New England.
2007-05-07 16:28:49 · answer #8 · answered by hlrinc 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As far as I know...no, but my grandfather had been adopted by an English Missionary from Blackpool and, unfortunately, the family was never told of his origin...most likely he was an illegitimate son of a scullery maid or something...(ha !)
2007-05-07 16:19:44 · answer #9 · answered by EvelynMine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dalton Gang. Bob, Emmit and Grant
2007-05-07 16:18:16 · answer #10 · answered by aggieguy48 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesse James
2007-05-07 16:16:54 · answer #11 · answered by Stormy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋