Famous relatives
through my natural parents
Famous person and the connecting family |
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John Gay
(1685-1732) Pollard |
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Dorothy (Quincy) Hancock Scott
(1747-1830) Quick |
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DeWitt Clinton
(1769-1828) Rapalje |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) Howland |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) Howland |
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Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888) 1. Quick 2. Chatfield |
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Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Smith & Wilcox |
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Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941) Pollard |
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Humphrey Bogart
(1899–1957) Rapalje |
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Orson Welles
(1915-1985) Wilcox |
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William Holden
(1918-1981) Betts |
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Montgomery Clift
(1920-1966) Quick |
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John Kerry
(1943-) Stoughton |
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Patrick Swayze
(1952-) Betts |
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Tom Hulce
(1953-) Betts |
… plus some connections to nobility and aristocracy
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Ashe |
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Stoughton |
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Rapalje |
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Borden |
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(1770-1840) Sauvagie |
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(1976-) Sauvagie |
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Marie-Chantal Miller
(1968-) wife of Pavel, Crown Prince (in exile) of Greece Howland |
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Alexandra Miller
(1972-) wife of Alexandre Egon, prinz zu Fürstenberg Howland |
Of related interest
The well known Genealogics website by Leo van de Pas traces some descendants, mostly famous, of the following persons ancestral to our great-great-grandmother, Margaret (Comfort) Kennedy:
- Henry and Margaret (____) Howland, the presumed parents of the three Howland brothers of New England
- John and Dorothy (____) Russell, of Marshfield, Massachussetts
- Michelle Sauvagie, wife successively of ____ Flamend and of Jérôme Tricot, by the latter of whom she was mother of Catalyntje Tricot, wife of Joris Jansen Rapalje, of the Wallabout, Long Island, New Netherland
- Theunis Thomasz. Quick and Belitje Jacobs van Vleckensteyn, of New Amsterdam
From the Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
URL = cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/np-famous.html
This page last revised 4 June 2009