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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

After seeing my mother on Sunday past we got talking about about my grandparents and after 46 years of being on this earth I never new that may granddad raced speedway cycles as a young man

Then my mother said I had a distance relative who played for a number of popular west midland football teams I won't mention there names but one is claret and blue and the other is known as the baggies

Do you have any relatives from the past that did something outstanding be it sport , performing arts, music or social activities like charity ,healthcare ....basically something that has the Wow factor ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

International sportsman

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Not sure it's a claim to fame but Edward heath is related in some way x

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By *agerMorganMan
over a year ago

Canvey Island

We traced my dads side of the family back to prior to WW1, turns out we used to own a vineyard, oh what I would give to have one now…

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

On my grandma side they owned a small chain of shops DIY stores I think

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

My grandad was stationed in India and was awarded an OBE for his actions that saved a village of women, old people and children from a huge fire. My other grandad used to clean Paul McCartney’s chimneys

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

My family have been distinctly average and unremarkable, I'm attempting to continue the family tradition

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

One of my relatives was part of the group that formed the RNLI.

Another started a trust fund that still buys books for university students.

And my Dad is Santa.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government "

As the governor of a colony?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grandad on mums side was in the founding unit of what became the SAS, part of his story was used in the film the Dirty Dozen, he was taken from the prison he was in and given the option of join or hang! He came from a circus family and was a lot smaller than the other volunteers, at one point crossing a river the others mostly guardsmen waded across, he went across and promptly sank under the water!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government

As the governor of a colony? "

Err...

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Both grandfathers saw action in WW2. Africa campaign and Europe. Neither talked about it and we did not ask. Only thing I do know is that one had his troop ship sunk by a U boat. He lost most of his friends.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How far back? Because there’s this thing that happened to mine that means I can only trace so far.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Two of my relatives were Prostitute and in the paper, another was a gangster. One was in broadmore. Lol

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government

As the governor of a colony?

Err... "

I'll take that as a yes then

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government

As the governor of a colony?

Err...

I'll take that as a yes then "

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

My grandad played for a well know Rugby League team here in the UK and for 2 in Australia

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great grandad was landed and titled his family also built boats for the Scottish canal system

On my dads side I discovered a direct descendant to Robert the Bruce King of Scotland

On my mums side the records were destroyed when a bombing destroyed all records in Dublin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great grandad was called Orlando

I think that's pretty cool

He didn't do anything notable AFAIK but the name deserves a mention in itself

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My great grandad was called Orlando

I think that's pretty cool

He didn't do anything notable AFAIK but the name deserves a mention in itself "

That's a pretty cool name is anybodies eyes

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

Had an aunt who was a singer and a dancer sang with Duke Ellingtons band and danced on Broadway. Tap dancing

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

My great great great great great Granddad must have been related to somebody who did something methinks

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government "

They performed furniture removal for free for some of my ancestors.

Unfortunately they then bunt the house down.

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

My dad was in the Atlantic Convoys during WWII.

My uncle ship was sunk by an Italian Submarine in the Mediterranean ended up in a lifeboat sailed past Madagascar which was then a German colony.

Refusing to make landfall and be interred they decided to sail on were picked up by a ship heading to Jamaica.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I'm not sure about wow, but a lot of my ancestors got free one way tickets to Australia courtesy of the British government

They performed furniture removal for free for some of my ancestors.

Unfortunately they then bunt the house down. "

Something like that, yes.

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames


"My great grandad was landed and titled his family also built boats for the Scottish canal system

On my dads side I discovered a direct descendant to Robert the Bruce King of Scotland

On my mums side the records were destroyed when a bombing destroyed all records in Dublin "

The Customs House in Dublin was not bombed. Records were burned though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My dad was in the Atlantic Convoys during WWII.

My uncle ship was sunk by an Italian Submarine in the Mediterranean ended up in a lifeboat sailed past Madagascar which was then a German colony.

Refusing to make landfall and be interred they decided to sail on were picked up by a ship heading to Jamaica.

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My grandfather on my dads side was one of the troops that liberated Bergen-Belsen death camp

My other grandad was torpedoed twice as was his son

My dad fought with the Marines in Suez before joining the SBS

I missed out on the Falklands thankfully

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great uncle was guy Gibson of the dambuster I'm also related to general Wolfe who took Canada from the French in 17 something or other

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My paternal grandmother and Robert James Brown, who played M in five James Bond films, were paternal first cousins.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

We’ve a few prostitutes & poachers who got a one way ticket to Oz

The most noted is a cousin via my Great Grandfather. His youngest sister emigrated to Canada and her youngest lad became a famous ice hockey player in Canada & the US

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Some outstanding ancestors

Anymore ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Bump for the evening shift

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My paternal grandmother and Robert James Brown, who played M in five James Bond films, were paternal first cousins."

That's pretty cool

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By *aughty Couple ABCCouple
over a year ago

West Bromwich

My paternal grandfather was in a concentration camp and helped build some famous railway

And my father was a hero. When he was a coal miner the roof caved in and he held it up with his back while the other men escaped. He had little bits of coal embedded in his back.

Mrs NC

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My paternal grandfather was in a concentration camp and helped build some famous railway

And my father was a hero. When he was a coal miner the roof caved in and he held it up with his back while the other men escaped. He had little bits of coal embedded in his back.

Mrs NC "

Outstanding looks like you come from amazing folk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Great great great grandfather Hugo Rune is a family legend

He had known many previous incarnations. And then some.

He had walked the Earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Cagliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. Although probably not in that order.

He spoke seventeen languages, played darts with the Dalai Lama and shared his sleeping bag with Rasputin, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia and George Formby.

He was worshipped as a god by an East Acton cargo cult and once scaled Everest in a smoking jacket and plus-fours to win a bet with Oscar Wilde.

He travelled to Venus in the company of George Adamsky, reinvented the ocarina and was burned in effigy by the Chiswick Townswo's Guild.

He was an expert swordsman, a gourmet chef, a world traveller, poet, painter, stigmatist, guru to gurus and hater of Bud Abbott.

He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vestas on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert and Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down into tears.

He won a first at Oxford, squandered three fortunes, made love to a thousand women, imbibed strange drugs, sold his soul for Rock'n'Roll, almost pipped Einstein for the Nobel Prize, was barred from every Chinese noodle parlour in West London and died penniless, at a Hastings boarding-house in his ninetieth year.

His name was Hugo Artenis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune. And he was never bored.

He penned more than eight million words. His autohagiography, The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, chronicles the life of an individual who shunned the everyday, scorned the laws of ordinary man, laughed in the face of convention, reinvented the ocarina and hated Bud Abbott.

He was a character in an age of characters. An exaggerated shadow cast in the fashionable places of his day. The confidante of kings and criminals, popes and prize- fighters, lighthouse keepers and lingerie salesmen, boffins and bikers.

Strangely enough, hardly anyone remembers him today.

His greatest work, The Book Of Ultimate Truths, has long ago vanished from the bookshelves. The British Library denies all knowledge of it. Smith's can't get it in and a recent privately printed edition turned out to be an elaborate hoax, perpetrated by a certain Sir John Rimmer, a bogus biographer of Rune, now living as a tax exile in California.

The Book Of Ultimate Truths was Rune's magnum opus. An encyclopaedia of his accumulated wisdom. Within it, the master explains, in terms understandable to the layman, exactly what life is really all about.

Why there are always two small screws left over when you reassemble that broken toaster. Where all the yellow handled screwdrivers go to. Why supermarket trolleys congregate beneath canal bridges. How the thermos flask knows what to keep hot and what to keep cold. Why the aspirin is only guessing. Where all the road cones come from and where they go afterwards and why it's always right where you're driving. The myth of "dry" cleaning. Dog-turd geomancy. How Arran sweaters grow while you sleep. Why it is impossible to be first in a Post Office queue and much, much more.

Throughout his colourful life the Forces of Darkness sought constantly to prevent Rune from revealing his Ultimate Truths. Satanic agencies plagued him in many human forms. Cuckolded husbands, the original inventor of the ocarina, The Chiswick townswomen's Guild and The Bud Abbott Appreciation Society, to mention but a few.

Added to these were landlords and lodging-house keepers, the proprietors of West London Chinese noodle parlours, milkmen, tailors, shoemakers, manufacturers of magical accoutrements, travel agents and vintners. All labouring under what Rune refers to as "the curious misconception that a master should pay his bills as do humble folk".

But, although under constant threat of assassination or litigation, Hugo Rune was never afraid to speak out, name names and point the finger of accusations. His modest aim was to increase mankind's knowledge and single-handedly bring about World Peace.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My Great great great grandfather Hugo Rune is a family legend

He had known many previous incarnations. And then some.

He had walked the Earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Cagliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. Although probably not in that order.

He spoke seventeen languages, played darts with the Dalai Lama and shared his sleeping bag with Rasputin, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia and George Formby.

He was worshipped as a god by an East Acton cargo cult and once scaled Everest in a smoking jacket and plus-fours to win a bet with Oscar Wilde.

He travelled to Venus in the company of George Adamsky, reinvented the ocarina and was burned in effigy by the Chiswick Townswo's Guild.

He was an expert swordsman, a gourmet chef, a world traveller, poet, painter, stigmatist, guru to gurus and hater of Bud Abbott.

He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vestas on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert and Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down into tears.

He won a first at Oxford, squandered three fortunes, made love to a thousand women, imbibed strange drugs, sold his soul for Rock'n'Roll, almost pipped Einstein for the Nobel Prize, was barred from every Chinese noodle parlour in West London and died penniless, at a Hastings boarding-house in his ninetieth year.

His name was Hugo Artenis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune. And he was never bored.

He penned more than eight million words. His autohagiography, The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, chronicles the life of an individual who shunned the everyday, scorned the laws of ordinary man, laughed in the face of convention, reinvented the ocarina and hated Bud Abbott.

He was a character in an age of characters. An exaggerated shadow cast in the fashionable places of his day. The confidante of kings and criminals, popes and prize- fighters, lighthouse keepers and lingerie salesmen, boffins and bikers.

Strangely enough, hardly anyone remembers him today.

His greatest work, The Book Of Ultimate Truths, has long ago vanished from the bookshelves. The British Library denies all knowledge of it. Smith's can't get it in and a recent privately printed edition turned out to be an elaborate hoax, perpetrated by a certain Sir John Rimmer, a bogus biographer of Rune, now living as a tax exile in California.

The Book Of Ultimate Truths was Rune's magnum opus. An encyclopaedia of his accumulated wisdom. Within it, the master explains, in terms understandable to the layman, exactly what life is really all about.

Why there are always two small screws left over when you reassemble that broken toaster. Where all the yellow handled screwdrivers go to. Why supermarket trolleys congregate beneath canal bridges. How the thermos flask knows what to keep hot and what to keep cold. Why the aspirin is only guessing. Where all the road cones come from and where they go afterwards and why it's always right where you're driving. The myth of "dry" cleaning. Dog-turd geomancy. How Arran sweaters grow while you sleep. Why it is impossible to be first in a Post Office queue and much, much more.

Throughout his colourful life the Forces of Darkness sought constantly to prevent Rune from revealing his Ultimate Truths. Satanic agencies plagued him in many human forms. Cuckolded husbands, the original inventor of the ocarina, The Chiswick townswomen's Guild and The Bud Abbott Appreciation Society, to mention but a few.

Added to these were landlords and lodging-house keepers, the proprietors of West London Chinese noodle parlours, milkmen, tailors, shoemakers, manufacturers of magical accoutrements, travel agents and vintners. All labouring under what Rune refers to as "the curious misconception that a master should pay his bills as do humble folk".

But, although under constant threat of assassination or litigation, Hugo Rune was never afraid to speak out, name names and point the finger of accusations. His modest aim was to increase mankind's knowledge and single-handedly bring about World Peace."

... excellent

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By *orflondonerMan
over a year ago

Wood Green

My 4x great grandfather was s traveling Shakespearian actor. More well know for being a gentleman than his actor skills. His two brothers were better known,one a painter and (particularly this fella) one a sculpture.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My 4x great grandfather was s traveling Shakespearian actor. More well know for being a gentleman than his actor skills. His two brothers were better known,one a painter and (particularly this fella) one a sculpture."

There's nought wrong with being a gentleman

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By *orflondonerMan
over a year ago

Wood Green


"My 4x great grandfather was s traveling Shakespearian actor. More well know for being a gentleman than his actor skills. His two brothers were better known,one a painter and (particularly this fella) one a sculpture.

There's nought wrong with being a gentleman "

Indeed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great grandad on one side fought in the Battle of Britain.

My great great great grandad on the other side was a prolific horse thief in London and quite well known.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great great grandad toured briefly with the buffalo Bill wild west show

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And my grandfather modernised the mental health services in greater Manchester

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More distant relatives moved to New York and set up a department store that’s quite famous

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"And my grandfather modernised the mental health services in greater Manchester "

That is awesome

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"More distant relatives moved to New York and set up a department store that’s quite famous"

Are you an heir ?

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

One of my great great grandfathers was a Jack the Ripper suspect.

It's not something to be overly proud of, but it is cool that you can Google him and he's on Wikipedia, in books and a video game.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"One of my great great grandfathers was a Jack the Ripper suspect.

It's not something to be overly proud of, but it is cool that you can Google him and he's on Wikipedia, in books and a video game. "

I think that's pretty cool

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

My great great grandfather was the oldest member of the Jockey Club at 104 having raced since he was 11

And a distant cousin on my mothers side won the Tour de France and was known as “King of the Classics”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"More distant relatives moved to New York and set up a department store that’s quite famous

Are you an heir ?"
no unfortunately not x I wish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"More distant relatives moved to New York and set up a department store that’s quite famous

Are you an heir ? no unfortunately not x I wish "
that would pay for my transition x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My great great grandfather was the oldest member of the Jockey Club at 104 having raced since he was 11

And a distant cousin on my mothers side won the Tour de France and was known as “King of the Classics” "

That's damn cool

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"On my grandma side they owned a small chain of shops DIY stores I think "

I should elaborate a little more on this the chain became "Do it all" now defunct/ a

Swallowed up but I wish I had a stake in it ...lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My late uncle was in Harry Potter amongst many other films,

My great grandfather (grandmother was an illegitimate child) was an inventor of many things we use today… I didn’t believe this to be true until my uncle showed me the patents and family tree!!

Grandfather served in both first and second world wars… would have loved to have met the man!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

According to my history lessons Black history started with roots

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

one of my aunties invented chocolate hobnobs

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

My great great grandad was apparently the May from Bryant & May matches. Apparently he sold his share early on and squandered all his fortune on women and living the high life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandads grandad was a famous oil painter who had pictures on show in many elite galleries London and Paris.

Unfortunately his talents haven't passed down through the family

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My great great grandad was apparently the May from Bryant & May matches. Apparently he sold his share early on and squandered all his fortune on women and living the high life."

I know what you mean a distant relative on my grandmother side was a guy called John Reynolds (jack) he played for England, Aston villa and west brom but was a womaniser and like his drink and died a penniless coal miner on the end

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

My ancestors are mainly famous as being the forbears of Polly Chromatic...

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe


"Grandad on mums side was in the founding unit of what became the SAS, part of his story was used in the film the Dirty Dozen, he was taken from the prison he was in and given the option of join or hang! He came from a circus family and was a lot smaller than the other volunteers, at one point crossing a river the others mostly guardsmen waded across, he went across and promptly sank under the water!"

L Detachment would have been the unit to which you're referring.

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By *aturefun63Man
over a year ago

Belper

My uncle helped invent the radial car tyre ,won a queen’s award for industry .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Both grandfathers saw action in WW2. Africa campaign and Europe. Neither talked about it and we did not ask. Only thing I do know is that one had his troop ship sunk by a U boat. He lost most of his friends."
funny just found out my grandad on my dad's side was torpedo twice on was on hms Sheffield involved in the sinking of the Bismarck explains why he'd never go in the sea when on holiday with me always my Nan would take me in I knew he was a sailor in the merchant navy as never said anything else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One of my ancestors founded a football club in Mexico and another was a famous judge in the 16th century.

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton


"My great great grandfather was the oldest member of the Jockey Club at 104 having raced since he was 11

And a distant cousin on my mothers side won the Tour de France and was known as “King of the Classics”

That's damn cool "

My Great Great Grandfather had 38 children (3 wives!), jockeys eh?

And the distant cousin was the first cyclist to win all 5 “monuments (the most prestigious one-day classics)

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