Does Anyone Have Any Interesting Family Members?

[NVWOCI WVS]

I was talking to my dad, the other day, about his family and where he grew up etc, and I realised how little I knew about my relatively close family.

My whole dad's side of the family is from East London, and he moved away when he was in his twentys. I never met any of my great grandparents, but apparently, his Grandfather was 'connected', and when he died he was burried in a full blown mafia grave, in a mafia graveyard and all of his money just instantly dissapeared (apparently he was pretty well off). I didn't know any of this until a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it was pretty ineresting, and I was amazed I knew nothing about my family more than 2 generations ago!

Anyone else got some stories like this?

[aener]

Do we need to watch what we say about you, now?

[Joe Papasnap Maher]

My dad used to be a proffesional football player for leyton orient in the early 80's.

[Jaffacakes]

My familys pretty boring really. My uncle, and great grandparents were all coal miners, my grandad was a mine survayor. My great uncle was a fighter pilot in WW2, his dad was a gunner in WW1. Everyone on my mums side were nurses and doctors.

[Ross Gardner]

My Grandad on my mum's side played for Brentford in the 1950's. My aunt and uncle are looking back through the family tree, they've come up with some pritty cool findings so far e.g. My great great Grandad worked on the quays at Portsmouth Repairing (sp?) Submarines for the British Navy.

[Ben Swales]

My Grandad, who's dead now, was a mechanic in the RAF during WW2, following which, he was part of Sir Frank Whittle's team that developed and built the first jet engine. he got an OBE for his contribution to the project.

Sadly he died before my parents were even married and I don't really know much about him.

[anzo]

No.

[forteh]

My mums dad was an RAF mechanic and my dad mums partner was a commando in ww2 Both dead now

My uncle was on the design team for the hubble telescope and helped designed one of the satellites that were destroyed in the ariane 5 rocket in 2002.

The family on my mums side is related to Charlotte Corday, a famous murderess during the french revolution, and on my dads side is related to Shakespeare (only through marriage).

Theres probably something else Ive forgotten

[Simpson]

My great grandad was part of the team that invented and fitted the first ever beepy thing on a boat (morse code things) and worked on early radar.

My Dad helped to build a world speedway champions motorbike, totally custom on behalf of a company called Westlakes (famous in sidecar racing)

My fake grandad was in the SAS during WW2 and has loads of amaing storys. And has 3 fingers missing and shrapnel in his lef to prove it

My real grandad never mentioned anything about his time in the army.

My uncle played for Oxford in the famous Oxford VS Cambridge match at the old Wemberly

Edited January 29, 2009 by Simpson

[ogre]

i'm a direct descendant of hitler.

[DrDoom]

http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Edited January 29, 2009 by DrDoom

[Jaffacakes]

i'm a direct descendant of hitler.

Well im a Jew, so watcha gonna do?

[Jed]

My Great Uncle is a millionaire and also used to deep sea dive for Army and stuff. Also one of the people who has private army's which he rents in country's in Africa and stuff. Only met him once, he gives us nothing.

Grandad and Great Grandad both used to play for Leicester rugby team.

Edit: Just realised that sounds like such bullshit, it's not

Edited January 29, 2009 by Jed

[Hobnobs]

I am a direct descendant of sherlock holmes.

Edited January 29, 2009 by Hobnobs

[bigamac]

I'm a descendant of your mum.

[Max Quinn]

I'm bigamacs dad.

[NVWOCI WVS]

I am a direct descendant of sherlock holmes.

Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character?

[Hobnobs]

Badda bing, genius.

Back on topic, my grandma fixed planes in WW2, or so ive been told. Thats about as interesting as my family gets.

[PaRtZ]

My nans husband trained John Parrot the snooker player

[Jed]

My nans husband trained John Parrot the snooker player

At?

[NVWOCI WVS]

My nans husband trained John Parrot the snooker player

Did he teach him to speak?

[Jed]

1 all. Game on.

[bigamac]

I'm bigamacs dad.

Well i hate my dad so its all good.

[Hannah Shucksmith]

Well, my mums ex husbands nephew was called Harry Potter and his mum was the first woman to know WW2 had ended (:

[JonMack]

My uncle had a sex change.