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"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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"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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"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 | |||
"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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"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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"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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"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. | |||
"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. | |||
"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. " 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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"My paternal grandmother and Robert James Brown, who played M in five James Bond films, were paternal first cousins." That's pretty cool | |||
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.
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"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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"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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"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 | |||
"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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"And my grandfather modernised the mental health services in greater Manchester " That is awesome | |||
"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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"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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"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 | |||
"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 | |||
"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 | |||
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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) | |||
