Interesting lineage?

[Uisce Beatha]

JD, there's a statue of John Barry in Wexford town that being his birthplace.  I've looked at it sober and bumped into it otherwise.

You didn't piss on it, did you?

Oh no, Americans love their Irish ancestry and the Irish love their American offspring.  Pissing on that statue might get you killed.

Threadjack story re: Wexford and pissing.  Last time I was down there was after my grandmother's funeral.  My cousin and I had made it there somehow and watched a match in a pub.  We decided it was lager day and proceeded to try all the guy had on draught.  He was kinda bent with us after a bit as he thought we were saying his pints were bad - people don't switch mid-session there.  Anyway, we had to ride the slow bus back up the coast road to get to Gorey.  About halfway I was set to burst.  The bus stopped at a wide spot in the road to pick up a woman and I told the bus driver I was getting off to visit a hedge.  If he wanted to wait for me I'd appreciate it but if he felt he had to leave that'd be fine too.  And when is the next bus due please?  He waited but must have been on a tear about useless Yanks as when I got back on the bus I caught it from pretty much every old one on board.  Didn't matter.  That was the greatest piss of my life.  I still remember it fondly.

No Cork.  Wexford and Carlow.

[JDerion]

JD, there's a statue of John Barry in Wexford town that being his birthplace.  I've looked at it sober and bumped into it otherwise.

You didn't piss on it, did you?

Oh no, Americans love their Irish ancestry and the Irish love their American offspring.  Pissing on that statue might get you killed.

That's good to hear. 

[E-A-G-L-E!]

As far as I know, no one of note.

[Spanky]

Me: No one famous but I had a great great grandfather that held by Blackfoot when pappy was a baby. On my mom's side someone working in the kitchen of Queen Victoria. Otherwise a lot like UB, mostly hooligans and heathens.

Wife: 7 Great Uncle was Ben Franklin. Her 6 Great grandfather was his brother. (or something like that)

Pfft, whatever. My great great great great great great great great grand Uncle was arrested for public intoxication in London then pissed on a bobby. Ben Franklin my ass.

[campy]

My mom has gone way back on both sides of my family, nothing really interesting.  My fathers side of the family are irish, my great grandfather immigrated to Boston from Belgium where he worked as a fisherman and cigar roller.  Somewhere between Ireland and Belgium, a surname change from Chambers to Campers took place and no one way is really sure why. 

On my moms side, her mother was a Sicilian immigrant, so little is known.  Her fathers family goes way to England, with a long history in the states.  There was a time when it was believed we were also related to Jesse James, but it turns out this Jesse was a female, and died a few years before the other more famous Jesse died.

[PaunchyBald]

Well now, nobody what's truly famous.  Several Generals and Admirals, but them are as what's from the 'literate' side of the family.

My maternal great, great grandmother was a tavern wench somewhere in Virginia.

On my fathers side there are assorted felons.  You know, one brother killing two other brothers in a gunfight circa 1890 or so.

Civil war era, 'Union' cousins hanging 'sesech' cousins.  That sort of thing.

We tended to breed alot too.  My grandfather had 11 brothers and sisters.  My father had 16 brothers and sisters what lived.

Holy crap, I've got over 75 first cousins on the paternal side of the family.

I might be a redneck if....................................................

Oh yeah, We (the family)go way back to Ireland circa 1705, and Scotland before that.

IOW, we like to drink, but we're too damn cheap to pay for it.

[Blader]

As far as being related, who knows? I'll drink to that, anyway! I don't know much of the Barry's in County Wexford though. I actually have many more ancestors (that I know of) from County Cork (Hannigan, Murphy, and Scully, if that helps).
 

Imagine that, we are probably related, afterall.

Perhaps my most well-known ancestor is Augustus Blader IV, who almost saved the passenger pigeon from extinction and at one time had the largest collection of mammalian baculum in the western hemisphere.

Him and some King in England from way back.

[Uisce Beatha]

Him and some King in England from way back.

Does Blader Industries have an Incest Division?

[Clive]

Him and some King in England from way back.

Does Blader Industries have an Incest Division?

It's referred to as "horizontal integration".

[stroh]

If I was younger, single, and looked a lot more like Tom Brady, I would totally use that line at the bar.

"Hey, baby!  You interested in some horizontal integration?"   

[Clive]

Alan Greenspan never got any tail with his "Wanna stimulate some growth in my private sector?" line, either.




EDIT: And that, my friends, is Post #2000.

[Seamus]

Hate to follow Clive and his 2K (congrats Clive).

Me: The aforementioned Norman pillagers.

Wife: Annie Oakley.

[stroh]

Alan Greenspan never got any tail with his "Wanna stimulate some growth in my private sector?" line, either.




EDIT: And that, my friends, is Post #2000.

    That's good stuff.

Nice way to hit 2k.  I would expect nothing less.   

[Aske]

LMAO @ this thread.  nobody really of note, then again i barely know even much about 2-3 generations back- too big, varied, and spread out of an extended family. 

one great-grandparent was apparently quite a well-off businessman who back in his time had some major major cash for the day ($2-3M). he was even written about in time magazine or something.   from what i have understood most of that went into the medical / care  of my grandparents in their elder age.