Which Relative Are You Most Proud Of?

A great grandfather of mine used to own a sanitaryware shop in Poole High Street.

A 4-greats (I think) grandfather fought at Trafalgar. He was supposed to have been "admiral" Jackson, although I think he was really a midshipman, but got posthumously promoted with each passing generation.
 
My great grandfather (fathers side) fought in the boar war he was from Hartlepool or v-near and joined the DURHAM light infantry............I have his soldiers book here but cant find anything on the Genealogy sites I have trawled them over and over again................
 
Im related to

Bruce Forsyth (former game show host)
and Alan McDonald (former QPR footballer)
and my brother was also runner up in the final of Stars In Their Eyes as Robbie Williams singing Let Me Entertain you. And my family were also family of the week on the Big Breakfast. :lol: It was very embarassing but Gail Porter was lovely and Jonny Vaughan was the funniest guy ive ever met.
 
My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was a very famous botanist and first Director of Kew Gardens (yawn, yes I've mentioned it before before anyone adds their comment). My Uncle was a heart surgeon in New York (he died two years ago), as is my cousin. Another Aunt is a semi proffessional golfer in Ireland.

Another cousin who lives in Australia, had his name on the credits for his (very small) part in the film Saw (some horror movie) that they are just about to release Saw II, I understand. His best friend James, who he shared a flat within Melbourne is a millionaire on the back of this film and he now lives in Los Angeles. How my cousin wishes he had gone with him when he had the chance. My Aunt who I saw last week (they are on a 3 month visit to Europe) said the puppet that was used in SAW (the original) she actually shared a settee with as it was made in their flat in Melbourne. I haven't seen the film but I understand it is pretty gruesome. Has anyone seen it?
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Oct 12 2005, 06:12 PM
My great grandfather (fathers side) fought in the boar war
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I bet he truffled a few feathers... I hope no-one dares ap-porcine any blame to him for any casualties. In a delicatessen situation I reckon you'd just have to gird your loins and hope to rind out a victory. Maybe he just smoked out the enemy instead of doing anything rasher. I trussed he came home cured.

(It was the Boer War, btw.)
 
:lol: :lol: D/O .....YES UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS A TYPO WHICH I never had time to correct was interrupted by le telephone etc etc... so I let it ride being that PEE had responded to it.. hence the pig comments…. god I am having a lean time of it of late…..
 
I had a relative who once wrote a hymn (can't remember which one), one after whom a road is named in London & also one after whom a hall is named at Circencester Agriculture College.
 
Originally posted by PDJ@Oct 12 2005, 06:00 PM
None of my family have ever done anything of note. I was on televison once though.
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Same here. Nobody has done anything out of the ordinary but I have been on television and on the front page of the local rag twice, albeit 16 years apart :D The first time was for winning the bonniest baby competition (were the judges blind?) and the second time related to my TV appearance.
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Oct 12 2005, 08:52 PM
What's a semi-professional golfer? One who only takes half the prize money?
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Are you on something this evening Brian or are you making a point of criticising everything I put on the forum at the moment ? Can you go and do it to someone else please.
 
I imagine it is a golfer who albeit playing professionally has some other career too ?
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Oct 12 2005, 10:24 PM
Are you on something this evening Brian or are you making a point of criticising everything I put on the forum at the moment ? Can you go and do it to someone else please.
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Don't worry - no-one is safe. Read all the postings
 
My mother's grandfather's brother (or something like that) invented/founded Connolly Cables. We should all be as rich as Croesus today, but the thieving bastad Company Secretary misguided him, the company was sold at a fraction of its true cost, the C.S. got promoted to Chairman in the new company, and mother's thingywotsit sailed out to sea, Maxwell-like, and drownded himself in shame. Well, actually, in the sea, but of shame.

My father's father served in submarines at the Battle of Jutland, and held a full Square-Rigged Ticket as a cap'n, sailing to the South Americas - anything to get away from his spendthrift wife, first lady driver of Portsmouth, secretary and 'confidante' of the (very) late Fred Jane, of Jane's Fighting This and Thats.

We are a motley crew as a family, with a variety of the talented and the talentless. Why, we can count public school, Manchester Grammar (when it meant summat), and Uni among the more intelligent of the clan. Some were disgracefully rich, drove Lagondas and took holidays on the Italian Riviera when that meant something, too...

Mostly, though, I am proud of my dear, late father's ability to roll his eyes to the back of his head.
 
Oh, that's good, Brian. It was one of Mama's older brothers who attended, but I wondered if it had become a bit like Grandpa Horley's days at Framlingham, which is now counted as a very minor public school. I looked up its website a while ago, and do you know, they not only admit girls, and have 'special classes', but have a female head? It's just not cricket, what?
 
Originally posted by krizon@Oct 12 2005, 10:31 PM
Mostly, though, I am proud of my dear, late father's ability to roll his eyes to the back of his head.
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Krizon, is that a party piece you inherited. I am sure you did that when you saw me turn up at Lingfield yesterday afternoon! :blink:
 
kathy - can she rotate her head 360 degrees and levitate as well? (We know already that she can projectile vomit. )
 
Originally posted by an capall@Oct 13 2005, 12:53 PM
kathy - can she rotate her head 360 degrees and levitate as well? (We know already that she can projectile vomit. )
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:what:

Sounds like I got off lightly yesterday then.
 
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