General Chat

Ooh Daff - we could be related - wouldn't that be great - Ollie had connections with Whitchurch!!

I have googles my surname and it came up with a retired NASA austranut from Apollo 8

hi

my sil dad's cousin is 66 goalie Gordon Banks.


kate

Yes, an old actress called Joyce Barbour. She appeared in Hitchcock films.

Deb

My 9x great grandfather was an Earl. His ancestors include just about every British royal before Edward III plus royals and interesting people from most of Europe.

I can claim Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (“El Cid” ), William the Conqueror, Charlemagne, Godifu of Bucknell (Lady Godiva) plus other interesting ancestors.

Sue
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roy crewsdon from freddie and the dreamers,
and hubbys uncle was freddie sharman played for leicester city.xx

An old boyfriend was some sort of relative to Winston Churchill, I remember well having to watch a cine film of his funeral one time when I went to stay!!
Carol

one of my great aunts was housekeeper to Sir Henry Wood lol
otherwise, no I don't think so

Lizx

My second cousin is Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama and Shakespears Sister

John Savage.

Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot

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.

My Great Great Grandmothers grandson by her first marriage was Sir William Angliss. Born here but moved to Australia and revolutionised the meat market.

Bit distant but that's my only claim to fame. lol

Linda

Not ME!!!
But I used to work with a bloke whose grand father(I think it was) was the explorer Amundsen!
the one that beat Scott to the pole
Bob

I'm Kylies' better looking twin ;0)

OH aunt was grandaughter of Earl and Lady Heathcote,of Hampshire,,,,,,,,,

Muffy, can you ask sis for free tickets,,,,,)))

little fibber,,,,,,,,,,,))

*sniggers*

Thought it was worth a try Kay !!!

.......... clearly not !!! lol xx