Six Degrees of Separation

[salymap]

And author of a book on Bruckner which I was given for my birthday in 1971....

Yes Richard, because he was our packer [!!] whenhe first arrived and was a nice man I ordered the book from our dreadful local library.

It cost me severalpounds to borrow it, when it arrived the print was too small for me. Ah well.

[Richard Tarleton]

Lovely!

On an altogether different tack, I gave a presentation at a conference in Malaga where the guy in charge of the electrics had previously worked for the Bill Graham organisation and had rigged for Dylan, the Stones, the Grateful Dead......I think he'd opted for a quieter life....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Are relations permitted? William Wordsworth, Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells - all related in one way or another to Yours Truly's family tree.

Impressive, S_A!

But not exactly John of Gaunt.

(You've actually got a "twofer": if you're related to the composer William Wordsworth, you've also got the poet there somewhere, too!)

[MrGongGong]

Impressive, S_A!

But not exactly John of Gaunt.

(You've actually got a "twofer": if you're related to the composer William Wordsworth, you've also got the poet there somewhere, too!)

Or even Barry ?

[Petrushka]

Or even Barry ?

[amateur51]

Lovely!

On an altogether different tack, I gave a presentation at a conference in Malaga where the guy in charge of the electrics had previously worked for the Bill Graham organisation and had rigged for Dylan, the Stones, the Grateful Dead......I think he'd opted for a quieter life....

Ah not Billy Graham then

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or even Barry ?

Is he? I didn't know that.

[Richard Tarleton]

Ah not Billy Graham then

No

[gurnemanz]

I also once spoke to Evgenny Kissin as he signed a cd for me,there must be loads of possibilities there,wonder if there is a link back to Alkan ?,I will have to investigate.

A while ago we went to a Kissin concert in Malmesbury Abbey and at the end he stood by the exit door, rather like a vicar, and shook the hands of all the audience members as they left.

[salymap]

This may not qualify as a link but.....

My maternal grandfather, who died back in 1931 worked all his life in the localPost Office, rising to near the top.

I have a newspaper cutting about him; his first job as a lad in 1860/70 ish was taking messages on the new fangled telephone when the StageCoach from London was due. He then contacted Dover to letthem know how many hotmeals would be required upon arrival.

The old Coaching Inn, where the horses were changed and the big Post Office building are still there.

If they had weather like this Spring and were on the open part of the coach they must have needed warming food.

Sorry if it's off topic but I love that link with the past. .

[mangerton]

This is probably too tenuous, but it is a musical connection.

My great great uncle married the great great niece of William Shield, Master of the King's Musick, 1817-1829.

[Richard Tarleton]

My family history researches have thrown up some curious connections. I can get back to Lord Nelson two ways, in six and five degrees....My great grandfather's [2 degrees] first cousin was Jack Fisher [3], who joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman aged 13, and went on to become First Sea Lord before and during the 1st World War (he fell out with Churchill over Gallipoli). Jack was born in Sri Lanka, and was sent to England to live with his grandfather (my 3 greats grandfather) who was a struggling wine merchant in New Bond Street (no 149, these days Louis Vuitton ). The grandfather used to recall a maidservant called Amy Lyon scrubbing the steps of the house next door. She changed her name to Emma Hart, became an, erm, model and dancer, and eventually married Sir William Hamilton, Ambassador to Naples....

That's the 6 degrees. The five - Jack was sent away to boarding school in Coventry and spent the holidays with his godmother. Her neighbour was Admiral Sir William Parker. Sir William took an interest in the boy's education and sponsored Jack when he joined the Navy at 13. Admiral Parker was Nelson's last surviving captain.

[amateur51]

No

So I see

[Ferretfancy]

An uncle of mine had a niece on his side of the family who married Max Mosley, thus linking me by marriage to the Devonshires via the Mitford sisters. Unity Mitford had a pash on Hitler, so that ties me in to him quite neatly!
On a vist to Chatsworth I cheekily announced that I was family, but they still made me pay!

[Nick Armstrong]

An uncle of mine had a niece on his side of the family who married Max Mosley, thus linking me by marriage to the Devonshires via the Mitford sisters. Unity Mitford had a pash on Hitler, so that ties me in to him quite neatly!
On a vist to Chatsworth I cheekily announced that I was family, but they still made me pay!