Famous relatives? Without saying who...

I went out with a bass player in a local band when I lived in Southend. They weren’t exactly famous but had a record deal. He wasn’t a relative but we almost married.

Why not name the person? Posters are anonymous anyway. It’s rather boring not knowing who the famous person is.

A well-known politician is a cousin, in private a thoroughly unpleasant type...

Not related to anyone famous but I did have a steamy relationship with a famous boxer no longer with us

I have 'Kiss me Hardy''s bible from my mother's family line. DH is a professional artist if that counts, as is DD1?! Quite a small world the living artists, so we know a fair few others. A friend acted in a few Game of Thrones series too... But shamefully, I guess, we haven't watched him in that, but we have enjoyed seeing him in other things.

Yes. My fairly distant cousin is/was an author. Long dead now but her books are regularly reprinted and dramatised.

DH could trace his ancestry back to Robert the Bruce on 11 separate lines. what a showoff however, he did admit that probably everyone in Scotland could too .

As for that hangman family: I lived door to them for a time. Does that count?

DH uncle when aged 10 was a main witness in a murder trial. No one in the family had ever talked about it but reading a book about local murders his name and address were there his own children knew nothing until DH told them. The murderer was hung by Pierrepoint.

A distant cousin by marriage who was a famous USA leading man AND can anyone else claim to have a distant cousin who was hung by Pierrepoint for treason at the end of WWII ?

We are related to a direct descendant of a Victorian food manufacturer. The company which he founded is extremely well known. Another member of my family is a real live Sir Humphrey but would only be recognised in his field!

I think this a a silly post and a waste of time without knowing the names.
What would be wrong in saying who the person is ? “ A footballer in the 70’s “ or “A famous author “. Like a quiz with no answers.

Taking the thread a slightly different route here as I have no connection (that I know of) to anyone famous/infamous. But I had a second cousin who shared a name with a famous character from literature, Jane Eyre, and my BIL was called Robert Bruce.

Yes, but can't think of anything to say that wouldn't give it away!

My cousin was in an 80’s British girl band

Yes, infamous Great, great Grandad. Was caretaker at famous public school and features in the book by Thomas Hughes. Yes, he was as awful as depicted in the book.
Also a female cousin, very famous actress.

What, you mean she had three nipples like Scaramanga?😂
No wonder she was so popular at Court.

Oreo

How many fingers do you have Callistemon ? 😆

I didn’t think it was the number of fingers that identified Anne Boleyn
.)(.
If you see what I mean.

Yorkslass23

A wonderful singer/songwriter, who travelled the world, in the 50/60s. In her travels she met Elvis in Germany, Noel Coward in Malta, Ella Fitzgerald. She wrote just about all the hits for Pet' Clark, which made her so famous. And, a number 1 record that knocked The Beatles off the chart! She wrote so many lyrics but never got credit for them. The best female vocalist of our times back then.

Oh, we were only talking about her (and her partner) yesterday, if she's who I think 🙂

A wonderful singer/songwriter, who travelled the world, in the 50/60s. In her travels she met Elvis in Germany, Noel Coward in Malta, Ella Fitzgerald. She wrote just about all the hits for Pet' Clark, which made her so famous. And, a number 1 record that knocked The Beatles off the chart! She wrote so many lyrics but never got credit for them. The best female vocalist of our times back then.

That is quite a story! Thanks for sharing that.

Not Don Revie..was it?

Sorry!! I mis-read, and gave the name away...silly me.

Not me personally but my son in law is the half brother of a member of a very famous American rock band.

My great-grandfather was married to one of 2 sisters, in Leeds. The girls' father owned a firm of hatmakers. The other sister married another well-known family in Leeds, the Middletons. They were pretty close friends with my rellies, who were in the woollen industry and had ran a bristle factory. They all lived in the same neighbourhood, buried in the same church. They were good friends with the Middletons and/or Lupton's. (Oddly enough, my mum's solicitor, and later to be mine, is Lupton-Fawcett in Leeds). and, yes, the connection is the present Princess of Wales, Catherine Middleton, now Windsor. Small world!

Oreo

How many fingers do you have Callistemon ? 😆

Well funny you should say that.