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Sarah R
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| razzledazzle134 wrote: | | Well my grandad keeps bragging that he is an descendant of Robert Burns. |
There are a lot of them, he was meant to be a bit of a ladies man.  |
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Martina
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| Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Sarah R wrote: | | razzledazzle134 wrote: | | Well my grandad keeps bragging that he is an descendant of Robert Burns. |
There are a lot of them, he was meant to be a bit of a ladies man. |
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razzledazzle134
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Well thank you for ever so politely implying my great times whatever grandad was a man wh*re *note the sarcasm* I did not know this by the way, I don't know anything about Robert Burns! |
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Sarah R
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| razzledazzle134 wrote: | | Well thank you for ever so politely implying my great times whatever grandad was a man wh*re *note the sarcasm* I did not know this by the way, I don't know anything about Robert Burns! |
I don't know that much about him either but my Dad was Scottish and when we were younger he took me and my sister up to Scotland for a holiday and we actually visited Robert Burns cottage, as a kid I wasn't that interested but now I would be all over it!
From his pictures he was an extremely handsome man. I believe he died penniliess (and probably worn out with all the female attention).
It might be interesting to research some stuff about him, his poems are great, I had a book where the poem was printed on one page in the way he would have written it and on the facing page was an "English translation", my favourite poem is "To A Mouse". When he was farming he disturbed a mouse nest and he wrote about the wee mouse that looked at him, terrified at being discovered.
Dad also took us to Rob Roys grave but, as usual me and my sister just wanted to sit in the car and listen to our Wham cassette. He virtually had to bribe us to get out of the car to have a picture taken by the grave, what philistines we were back then! |
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razzledazzle134
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| thank you for redeeming yourself by saying my great times whatever grandad was extremely handsome....that must mean I am too!! (J/K) |
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Martina
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I keep getting told that I'm related to President McKinley. Also some Lovelace person, but I'm still trying to figure out who.
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Sarah R
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| razzledazzle134 wrote: | | thank you for redeeming yourself by saying my great times whatever grandad was extremely handsome....that must mean I am too!! (J/K) |
It could run in the family, have you seen his picture? |
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Mademoiselle_Boleyn
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Yes. on my mother's side, my ancestor is Queen Maria Leszczynska. She was a Polish princess who grew up to be the wife of King Louis XV, and was the grandmother of Marie antoinette's husband, louis XVI 
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tudorwolf77
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:37 am Post subject: Robert the Bruce |
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Genealogy... one of my favorite pasttimes!! I recently discovered Robert the Bruce in one branch of my family tree as well as a French Contess! This is exciting work!! I am at a brick wall on 2 other branches of my tree so far though, so wish me luck.  |
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Lettice
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There are some really interesting ancestors here!
My great x3 grandmother had the surname Hartshorn, and according to the Hartshorn family website, the Hartshorns had links with Robin Hood and his Merry Men, so I like to tell myself I might be descended from Robin Hood, which would be pretty amazing!
On a more recent note, my dad's second cousin (or something like that) is the 60s pop star Barry Ryan who had a huge hit with the song Eloise! |
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Sarah R
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| Lettice wrote: | There are some really interesting ancestors here!
My great x3 grandmother had the surname Hartshorn, and according to the Hartshorn family website, the Hartshorns had links with Robin Hood and his Merry Men, so I like to tell myself I might be descended from Robin Hood, which would be pretty amazing!
On a more recent note, my dad's second cousin (or something like that) is the 60s pop star Barry Ryan who had a huge hit with the song Eloise! |
I know that song! My Dad used to go around the house in the early morning singing it at the top of his voice! My sisters name is Emma Louise and she used to get it the worst!
I know the group "The Damned" covered it in the mid 80's? so we had it for a few weeks as Dad then got backing music for his daily warble!
Did your Dad's cousin write "Eloise"? I hope so as the re-make was quite a hit and he'd have got royalties. |
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Lady Rebecca
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Heh, apparently Robert Burns is my great great however many greats, Uncle...
long lost cousins razzledazzle? |
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| Heather Ann wrote: | My dad's cousin is Randle Mell who is an actor, he played in Wyatt Earp, he was the guy the Wyatt wouldnt let arrest him, but Randy is married to Mary McDonell who was in a lot of movies....
1984 Garbo Talks - Lady Capulet
1987 Matewan - Elma Radnor
1990 Dances with Wolves - Stands With A Fist
1991 Grand Canyon - Claire
1992 Passion Fish May-Alice Culhane
1992 Sneakers - Liz
1994 Blue Chips - Jenny Bell
1996 Independence Day - First Lady Marilyn Whitmore
1999 Mumford - Althea Brockett
2001 Donnie Darko - Rose Darko
2003 Nola Margaret - Langworthy
2004 Crazy Like a Fox - Amy Banks
I got to meet both of them a few years back..... |
Lucky you, I know her from dances with wolves, I love that film!
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Kata
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My dad's cousin Joyce married some-one related to george washington.
All I remember is their awful (American) son Lee who broke all our toys on their one and only visit!! |
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yeah she was really good in that one, I also just saw that she has a reoccurring role on The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick
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