Researching my 5^th great grandmother, Sarah “Sally” Webb b. 1750, opened a whole new line of Ancestors for me. So not only can I trace them back to ancient English Royalty and Scottish Kings, but they expose the potential of many famous and well-known people in my family. As I note on my page …of Cabbages and King, I find that I have a large number of Ancestors of reknown. To understand the relationships between us, refer to my page regarding calculating cousin relationships - click here

The search for relatives can be quite daunting. Looking up and down all of the branches of your family can be very demanding. Fortunately, there is help available. And, of course, it’s on the Internet. And the site is https://famouskin.com. I stumbled across this site just recently and I find it quite fascinating. For instance, if I go to the site and search for William de Ros b. 1237, my 22nd great grand father, I get a long list of Famous Kin of William de Ros. Click here to see the entire list.

Included in the list are:

5 Queens of England
15 Presidents of the US
2 signers of the Constitution
9 signers of the Declaration of Independence
2 Justices of the Supreme Court (1 Chief Justice)
the Father of the Bill of Rights
the author of the "Star Spangled Banner"

So here is an accounting of the most notable relatives on the list. I have used my Cousin Calculator to determine my relationship to each person on the list

8^th Cousins 14 times removed

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
Catherine Parr, Queen of England, 6th Wife of King Henry VIII

9^th Cousins 13 times removed

Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England

14^th Cousins 8 times removed

George Washington, 1st U.S. President
Thomas Nelson, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

15^th Cousins 7 times removed

Benjamin Harrison V, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Meriwether Lewis, Lewis and Clark Expedition
James Madison, 4th U.S. President
Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Caesar Rodney, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Richard Henry Lee, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

16^th Cousins 6 times removed

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
William Floyd, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
John Langdon, Signer of the U.S. Constitution

17^th Cousins 5 times removed

General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
George Mason, Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
Nicholas Gilman, Signer of the U.S. Constitution
John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

18^th Cousins 4 times removed

Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President
Helen Keller, Author and Activist
Susan B. Anthony, Women's Rights Advocate
Francis Scott Key, Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American “Fireside” Poet

19^th Cousins 3 times removed

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
General George S. Patton, U.S. Army - World War II
William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President
Admiral Richard Byrd, Polar Explorer
Olivia De Havilland, Movie Actress
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice

20^th Cousins 2 times removed

Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction Writer and Author of The Martian Chronicles
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President
Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Alan Shepard, Mercury and Apollo Astronaut

21^st Cousins 1 times removed

George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President
Walt Disney, Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company

22^nd Cousins

George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President
Gerald Ford, 38th U.S. President
Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President

22^nd Cousins 2 times removed

Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President