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My heritage isn't interesting in the sense of my ancestors doing big or being part famous acts, but I am personally interested in the lineage of my family/surname.

Example being, pretty much every person with the surname "Hutley", I am somehow related to, some girl added me on Facebook and we were able to find that we were about 5th/6th cousins in the Hutley family.

There are Hutleys in Australia because one of my great great great (etc) uncles, was caught for housebreaking in the 1800's, and sent to Australia when it was as a prison and then re-populated the Hutley name out there.

Okay back to the topic of interesting family members, theres really nothign amazingly interesting about my family that I know of.

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My great aunt built Bombers in WW2.

My Grandad on my mum's side was in the fleet air arm, taking pictures of things, guns, missiles, planes, said planes crashing/ falling off the side (got some funny pictures upstairs :P ) And then did loooooads of photography/ advertising stuff.

Great Grandad on my dad's side was in the cavalry during WW1.

Think there are a few more interesting ones, everyone else was just boring :)

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My heritage isn't interesting in the sense of my ancestors doing big or being part famous acts, but I am personally interested in the lineage of my family/surname.

Example being, pretty much every person with the surname "Hutley", I am somehow related to, some girl added me on Facebook and we were able to find that we were about 5th/6th cousins in the Hutley family.

There are Hutleys in Australia because one of my great great great (etc) uncles, was caught for housebreaking in the 1800's, and sent to Australia when it was as a prison and then re-populated the Hutley name out there.

Okay back to the topic of interesting family members, theres really nothign amazingly interesting about my family that I know of.

I read that as huntley, which wasned exactly brilliant.

As for me, my nan/grandad/mum lived in...

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as well as this place i believe ...

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think there where a few other places like that as well, but not really sure.

my great grandad came over here due to being the captain of a norwegian ship.

One of my uncles is a doctor and teaches medicine at cambridge or oxford (Cant remember which)

other than that its all boring.

My uncle had a sex change.

That explains the girls jeans your wearing then .... :P

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My grandad smuggled thousands of pounds sowed into his coat lining so he could pay them into a bank in switzerland and not pay tax.

Big shoes to fill, guess you started by achieving that little name under your avatar :P

Nothing massive or fancy, one grandad worked in the mines and then later with the railways. He was pretty awesome.

The other grandad was at christmas island and died before i was born (go figure, nuclear testing - early death).

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My dad's fairly interesting, he survived the whole war, was a fairly successful rally driver, is the co-founder of the polish equivalent of the RAC, had loads of really interesting jobs one of which is still engraving the trophies at the Wimbledon grand slam. But he's getting really old which sucks :(

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Apparently at this moment in time I have 3 cousins who live in London (Who I only found out about the other day) and I have an uncle and aunty in Australia which I also found out the other day. Would like to meet them before it's too late :)

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