Does anyone else have family members or relatives on Wikipedia - or are you on it yourself?
I had to change details on my relative who has an entry on there - gawd knows where the person who wrote the entry got their info from.
Relatives on Wikipedia
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 22 2009, 11:23 AM BSTDoes anyone else have relatives on Wikipedia?
Yes.
Quote: Aaron @ May 22 2009, 11:29 AM BSTYes.
Is it your dad, Gordon?
Or his uncle, James?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 22 2009, 11:23 AM BSTDoes anyone else have family members or relatives on Wikipedia
This is the only one who springs to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lilburne
My friend keeps adding himself and someone (probably an ex) keeps deleting the entry.
Quote: chipolata @ May 22 2009, 11:30 AM BSTIs it your dad, Gordon?
If that were the case, I would be writing this from a prison cell following a conviction for patricide.
Quote: DaButt @ May 22 2009, 11:32 AM BSTThis is the only one who springs to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lilburne
My friend keeps adding himself and someone (probably an ex) keeps deleting the entry.
What an interesting charaacter! How are you related?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 22 2009, 11:36 AM BSTWhat an interesting charaacter! How are you related?
Through his mother. She was a Hixon and my surname is Hixson. My family has been traced back to his.
From http://mises.org/story/2861 :
John Lilburne's mother, Margaret, was brought up in a royal palace. This was because her father, Thomas Hixon, was the Keeper of the Standing Wardrobe to Queen Elizabeth I at the ancient royal Palace of Greenwich, on the south bank of the Thames. The Hixon family lived within the palace precincts and Thomas was responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal carpets, furniture, and wall hangings.
In 1599, Margaret Hixon married Richard Lilburne of Durham, and Richard moved south to come and live with his wife. Richard's family came from Thickley Punchardon, County Durham, in the North East of England. The family's claim to fame was that Richard's grandfather attended Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. The ancient family of Lilburnes were merchants and landowners from the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Richard was the eldest son of a country gentleman and only 16 years old when he married Margaret.
When Richard's father died in 1605, Richard and his wife moved to Thickley Punchardon, so that Richard, as the eldest son, could take over the family home. While living in the north, Richard and Margaret had three children: Elizabeth, Robert, and John. John Lilburne was born in Sunderland in 1615. He was just one year younger than his brother Robert, who later became famous to history as one of the regicides who signed Charles I's death warrant. Later, the family moved back south, to Greenwich, where Richard and Margaret's fourth child, Henry, was born in 1618.
In the following year, Richard's father-in-law, Thomas Hixon, died. In the same year, only four months after the death of her father, Richard's wife Margaret died. This means that John Lilburne was only about four years old when his mother died. Richard, now a widower, took his three sons and daughter back to the family home in Thickley Punchardon.
The young John Lilburne studied at grammar schools in Bishop Auckland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, on the completion of his education, was encouraged by his father to take up an apprenticeship in London.
Wow, that's great to have that sort of info. The most I have on a direct ancestor only goes back to the 18th century and that's that he's buried in Arbroath Abbey very close to the King of Scotland.
I have plenty of information about most of my ancestors in the U.S. which dates back to their arrival in 1670. It gets a little sketchier after that, but there's a famous brewer in London and everything supposedly goes back to the village of Hixon in Staffordshire.
This nice fellow in the UK has erected a massive website for all things Hickson/Hix(s)on:
Woo Greenwich. \o/
And I must point out that there's a lot of great genealogy being done based upon DNA test results. You have to be male, but your brothers or fathers can be tested in your place. Thousands of people have been tested and more are coming in every day. I've discovered a lot of distant relatives that way.
http://www.smgf.org http://www.ysearch.org https://www.familytreedna.com
Quote: Aaron @ May 22 2009, 11:52 AM BSTWoo Greenwich. \o/
I thought you'd enjoy that.
I've been trying to get one of my brothers to do this.
Actually I have a love-hate relationship with the place now. I loathe the uni but adore the campus.
Where they're currently re-shooting scenes for Wolfman. I've not seen such a big production in my life.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 22 2009, 11:57 AM BSTI've been trying to get one of my brothers to do this.
It's not very expensive and completely painless. The first test I took required me to rub a foam-tipped swab over the inside of my cheek for a few seconds. The second test consisted of a few seconds of swishing of a minty mouthwash followed by a spit.
The results of the test can be fascinating. I was relieved to learn that I'm not a bastard and neither were my last 10-15 generations of ancestors.