"I'm a distant relative of William The Conqueror"!

[Levo-Lon]

Im a descendent of Spartacus..

 

[stephec]

I bet Will the C is turning in his grave at the news.

 

[stephec]

I've shook Richard Branson's hand (limp like a lettuce)

Do you mean that you went limp as a lettuce when he touched you?

 

[ozboz]

Im a descendent of Spartacus..

My mate reckons he is a distant relative of Spartacus , his name is Fartacus !

 

[Drago]

My sisters mate was a cousin of Gary Numan.

I'm not sure I'd own up to that myself!

 

[Dirk]

I've shook Richard Branson's hand (limp like a lettuce)

I shook the hand of my old workmates dad, who shook the hand of someone very famous when he was awarded a medal in WW2.
That means I'm 'one handshake away' from them.

 

[Drago]

I shook the hand of my old workmates dad, who shook the hand of someone very famous when he was awarded a medal in WW2.
That means I'm 'one handshake away' from them.

The iron cross?

 

[raleighnut]

Im a descendent of Spartacus..

No, I'm a descendant of Spartacus.

 

[Globalti]

There's something of the John Darbyfield in many of us.... Hardy's vain man who craved respectability and wealth so sent his daughter Tess off into the clutches of the seducer Alec Durberville.

My mother thinks we are descended from a secret liaison between Irish hero Robert Emmett and Sarah Curran, daughter of Emmett's nemesis John Philpott Curran. She keeps telling me I ought to research it but I really can't be bothered.

 

[Accy cyclist]

My sisters mate was a cousin of Gary Numan.

I was only talking to an elderly chap on my mum and dad's old street yesterday. We got on about the old days and who lived here and there and how they've all departed this life now. I mentioned the couple across the road from our house. She was half Japanese and the grand daughter(or was it niece?) of Basil Rathbone of Sherlock Holmes fame.

 

[Dirk]

The iron cross?

Yup!
I even held the medal.

 

[MichaelW2]

I believe most people in Hastings have Norman ancestry. Their post battle parties were legendary.

 

[Beebo]

My sisters mate was a cousin of Gary Numan.

Fascinating fact.
Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.
So Oldman is a newer man than Numan.

 

[Arjimlad]

You are Adam Ant AICMFP.

 

[Cavalol]

Not sure if anyone famous in our ancestry, but a minimal chance of being distantly related to a former (possibly original?) owner of Chitty Bang Bang.

As that’s an utterly utterly hopeless lame-to-fame, my family surname originates from a village two miles from my house.