cresta57

I used to read the Grimsby Telegraph, wow, your my hero now Rasen

rasen78

You really need to set your sights higher Cresta

carolinephillips

My sister is a sci-fi author, about to have her second book published.
Many of my mother's family were musicians in various professional orchestras, and my great great grandfather was a respected Unitarian who wrote pamphlets about the conditions of the poor in the Potteries. On my dad's side, his maternal grandparents were cook and butler to Sir Charles Boxhall of Maidenhead (sort of like Downton Abbey in miniature) and his grandad later became the caretaker of the Christian Scientist Church in Sloane Sq. after serving in the King's rifles in WW1. My paternal grandfather was orphaned as the wife had died in 1917 and the husband in the last months of WW1 in Belgium.

My brother is a self-made millionaire, who lives with Italian Royalty.

I've been on stage in a musical with Carey Mulligan (BAFTA award winning actress and Oscar nominee), though it was just before she got the part in Pride and Prejudice, and was an amateur production.

But we are just ordinary people.

Kim67

Hey my GG Grandfather may have treated your relly Ned. It's reported that he treated the Kelly gang after a shoot out. But he was an old BS artist (one of his sons was a NSW Politician who wrote a book about his dad's exploits but doesn't name the bushrangers in the book). This old doctor had at least three wives, was jailed for bigamy and malpractice and was a bit of a character all round. On the wiki page for the politician son, it says his father died when he was a child, in fact the father was actually just living with another family and died many, many years later in an asylum.

My G Uncle (grandson of the doctor) was the inspiration for the character Jo Harman in Neville Shute's "A Town Like Alice".

Being of old Australian stock like fish, I have loads of relatives with some type of claim to fame.

My husband is related to Ernest Thesiger who played Dr Pretorius alongside Boris Karlov in The Bride of Frankenstein. My daughter is really impressed with this one because she wants to be an actress, loves horror movies and they share a birthday. My husband is also kinda related to Lord Bath - they descend from the same line, but it seems old Bath may be the result of an extra marital affair his mother had.

In Exile

my mum used to date Paul McCartney's brother and she still has some of his 7"


....singles.

Bix

Aren't you notorious for being exiled to the land of convicts?

northernbird

My Grandfather was a wireless operator in WW2 in Malaysia. He always said he tried to send messages to warn the Americans that the Japs were going to invade Pearl Harbour but nobody believed him.

spartacus

That must've been sad for your grandad, having his own family question his war-time exploits.

northernbird

He was always frustrated by it for sure.

spartacus

Why didn't you all believe him?

northernbird

I didn't say I didn't believe him. I was a child at the time with no knowledge of what happened in the war. I still don't know enough about the war in Malaysia and the far east to either believe or doubt his account.

spartacus

Perhaps it's all for the best. If your grandad had been believed we might all be speaking German now.

In Exile

i read it as no one at the time believed him (i.e. whoever he had to report to), not the family.

correct?

spartacus

No, that is incorrect.

northernbird

That's correct. Saying that some of his family members thought maybe he was exaggerating.