People of interest in your family history

[Caligastia]

While I was visiting my family in New Zealand, I was talking with my Dad (he's from England) about his father. My grandfather was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army's Intelligence Corp during WWII. He was captured by the Nazis, but they treated him fairly well because he was an officer. He died a couple of years before I was born, so I never got to know him, but I would like to find out more. I will try and research British Army records if possible.

Who's the most interesting person in your family history?

[BeBMan]

Me

I hope

[Bereta_Eder]

My family line can be traced back to the 300 Spartans that defended Thermopyles against the Persians.

[BeBMan]

Can´t you be a little more specific? Which one was your ancestor? I mean - 300 is a bit much...

[Arrian]

My family had a couple of pirates, one of whom managed to get himself marooned on Madagascar for allegedly being "too nice" to prisoners.

-Arrian

[Bosh]

Mine's cooler
I've got the draft-dodging member of the guard at the Tsar's Winter Palace, the great-great uncle who returned to Russia and was killed in a tragic carriage accident almost immediately, and an Italian great-grandfather who ran a grocery during the depression who gave food on credit to people he knew would never be able to pay, went out of business and then drank himself to dead.

[Bosh]

Arrian: wow another apolytoner in the **** hole we know and love as Middletown. You go to Wes?

[The Mad Monk]

Depends. If you're talking direct bloodline, my great...great (insert as many greats in the ... as required) grandfather on my father's side fought in the American Revolution...for the Brits.

He was one of the Hessians hired by old King George to help put down those uppity colonists. After the war, he took up the offer for farmland (in New Jersey, in this case) given to any of the defeated soldiers who wished to stay and help the new nation grow.

If you include cousins, I have Frank and Jesse James on my mother's side.

Oops...almost forgot my brother, Pete Abrams:

http://www.sluggy.com

Does he count?

[Gangerolf]

My great grandmother used to say that we were descendants of Rollo, ruler of Normandie. She was a psychic so she should know

[Arrian]

Boshko,

No. I'm a Trinity grad, actually (class of '98). I'm moving in to my gf's house in Middletown (previously, I lived in the ****hole known as Bristol ). It's in the southern part of town, which is a lot nicer than the Rte66 ****hole area.

-Arrian

[Bosh]

Yeah, good point, but at least the two Thai places are closer to where I live

[Kassiopeia]

My great uncle, Akseli Anttila, was the Minister of Defence in the government of Terijoki, the group of people Stalin selected as a puppet regime that would be installed in Finland as soon as the Russians would invade and end the Winter War.

During the same war, my grandfather (my father's father; Anttila was a relative of my mother) was a member of a demolition patrol in the Finnish forces...

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by BeBro
Can´t you be a little more specific? Which one was your ancestor? I mean - 300 is a bit much...

the one on the right

[Eli]

Hmph.

My great-great grandfather was a good teacher and everyone in the village liked him. That's pretty much sums it up.

[Arrian]

Yeah, good point, but at least the two Thai places are closer to where I live

Stop&Shop is closer to us, though, so ha!

How do you like Wesleyan?

-Arrian