General Chat

I have Elizabeth Taylor and a Richard Burton:-)) not the famous ones but they did marry:-))

Has anyone found any famous relations, or famous namesakes... the best I can do is Dickie Davies.. Caz sorry forgot to mention.... not the real one off the telly, although he was a jockey.

my family are related to Lady Darby, she was a stage girl who married a lord, much contoversy. also going way back we are by marrige related to Robbie Burns (the poet)

lol what a strange coincidence.... caz

I have a Charles Chaplin - who fits with possibly being the father of Charlie Chaplin - but haven't been able to prove it ........ Am also told that one of my Uncle's lines has HG Wells in it :O)

COOl....I also have a george lucas.. not of the Star wars fame though.. unless george lucas came from cheshire..lol not Caz

I cant even find ordinary rellies lol ann

Only Me, I,m Famous for doing ' B-gg-r All ', And Of course 'Winding up ' McAnne, Who it seem is somehow possibly related to 'H.G.Wells' //??? ' Tunbridge ' in Kent May Hap. Hal.:o))))> Sorry McAnne. Could,nt resist.xxx.

I have an Elizabeth TAYLOR too.... there are alot of them about judging by Hot Matches. I also have a Joseph LISTER...but not the famous one. Gwyn

Have just found some rellies in N Ireland... the surname is Best.. could be the footballer?!?! Who knows, when I manage to get round to looking into it further?? Clare x Would be strange if there was a connection, because George Best did live in the town next to where the Best part of my family came over to England and settled (and my parents still live there) Could be spooky!!!

I have Elizabeth Taylor in my family, not THE Elizabeth Taylor I might add, but certainly a name you can't forget lol. catherine xx

there are a lot of elizabeth taylors about ,i've got one as well.

sorry ,just counted them , its 7 elizabeth taylors for me.

are we all related,then??:-))lol

Lol...I have an Elizabeth Taylor too... she married a Roger Taylor...:)xx

Oh I forgot, my uncle is called Roger Moore... !!! Clare x

John Savage is one of my famous relatives! In 1586 Mary Queen of Scots had been illegally held prisoner by Elizabeth I of England for eighteen years. Many Catholics regarded Elizabeth as illegitimate and Mary as the legitimate Queen of England and Ireland. Even if she was not, she was next in line to the throne. However, she was a Catholic, and neither Elizabeth nor her ministers relished the prospect of a Catholic succession. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Secretary of State and chief of her espionage, used two agents provocateurs, Gilbert Gifford and Bernard Maude, to manipulate respectively two men, John Savage and John Ballard, who believed that the killing of a tyrant was lawful. (Whether Gifford had Walsingham's authorization when he first approached Savage to incite him to kill Elizabeth is not clear, but Gifford was subsequently Walsingham's double agent.) When Walsingham learned that Anthony Babington, a young Catholic gentlemen (who had corresponded secretly with Mary before by smuggling letters from others to her), together with some of his friends was plotting to rescue Mary from her imprisonment in Chartley Hall, Walsingham managed to combine the two plots. Babington's conscience was troubled about the rightness of assassinating Elizabeth. Therefore in July of 1586 he decided to write to Mary, whom he regarded as his rightful sovereign, to ask her to authorize the assassination. In his letter he wrote of plans of ten gentlemen and a hundred followers who would rescue Mary from her imprisonment and of six gentlemen who would, with Mary's authorization, assassinate Elizabeth. After being arrested and tortured John Savage was Hung Drawn and Quartered.

alas this is another Savage relative. RICHARD SAVAGE —- was born in 1698, having been the son of Anne, Countess of Macclesfield, by Captain Savage, afterwards Earl of Rivers. He might have been considered the lawful issue of Lord Macclesfield; but his mother, in order to procure a separation from her husband, made a public confession of adultery in this instance. As soon as her spurious offspring was brought to light, the countess treated him with every kind of unnatural cruelty. She committed him to the care of a poor woman to educate as her own, and prevented the Earl of Rivers from making him a bequest of L.6000 by declaring he was already dead. She endeavoured to send him secretly to the American plantations; and at last, to bury him in obscurity and indigence for ever, placed him as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Holborn. About this period his nurse died; and, in searching her effects, Savage found some letters which unravelled the mystery of his origin. He therefore left his low occupation, and tried every method, but without avail,to awaken the tenderness and attract the regard of his mother. In the month of December, 1727, together with James Gregory and William Merchant, he was indicted at the Old Bailey, for the murder of James Sinclair: —- Savage by giving him a mortal wound with a drawn sword in the lower part of the belly; and Gregory and Merchant by aiding and abetting in the commission of the said murder. After a trial of eight hours, the jury found Savage and Gregory guilty of murder, and Merchant guilty of manslaughter: It will scarcely be believed that, at this critical juncture, the inhuman countess exerted all her influence to prejudice the queen against her unhappy child, and to render unavailing every intercession that might be made to procure for him the royal mercy: at length, however, the Countess of Hertford having laid an account of the extraordinary story and sufferings of poor Savage before her majesty, a pardon was obtained for him and his companion, and they were accordingly set at liberty on the 5th of March, 1728. Our author had now recovered his liberty, but was destitute of all means of subsistence; and his latter days appear to have been spent, for the most part, in abject poverty. His distresses do not, however, seem to have overcome him. In his lowest sphere his pride sustained his spirits, and set him on a level with those of the highest rank. After enduring numberless privations, and disgusting almost all his friends by the heedlessness (and we are afraid we must add the ingratitude) of his disposition, Savage expired at Bristol, where he had been imprisoned for debt, August, 1743, in his 46th year, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter, at the expense of the gaoler.

The most famous cousins I have in my tree are royalty. I won't say which nationality they are as they are living. I spent all my time trying to find famous namesakes in my tree, I completely forgot about them! Kirsten

OOOOKAAAAY....My G.Grandad was a famous Morris Dancer ( in his own village) which was very small and probably no one has ever heard of....... going now..... gone... x