On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:04:37 +0100, <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting that you too have a Shackleton connection and that our > "ancestors" sailed > together to the Antarctic. Not that I could possibly claim Sir Ernest as > an ancestor, he is more > what we call a "collateral ancestor", i.e. we descend from a common pair > of ancestors but on > different lines. > I worked out once that my kinship to the great man is something in the > nature of a 12th cousin 8times removed. But you know what we family > historians are like, we will grasp at a connection toanyone famous, > however remote! Hi Listers, Roy's last comment has reminded me that I have a possible famous ancestor in the Welsh king, Rhodri Mawr. One of my ancestors, William VAWER, was Mayor of Bristol in the mayoral year 1601-1602. His family came from Haverfordwest in Wales and there is still a charity in Haverfordwest, which bears his name. Information on the internet, takes the ancestors of this family back to the 9th century and Rhodri "Mawr" ap Merfyn "Frych", King of Gwynedd, Powys and Seisllwg!!! In English, he is known as Rhodri the Great. When I told my other half that he should now call me Tywysoges (Princess in Welsh), he added an additional name in English to Tywysoges and that's Five Horses. For anyone who can't work out the English bit it means 'Nag, Nag, Nag, Nag, Nag!' :-) Josephine