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#166243 7-Mar-2015 11:18
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Everyone must have someone that is famous or well known in their family(doesn't have to be immediate family)... who do you have?

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  #1252624 7-Mar-2015 11:44
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Hmmm... One of my ancestors was Captain John Grono, who named (English) most of the South Island including Milford Sound.




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  #1252786 7-Mar-2015 15:33
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"famous"? well 2nd cousin is Sam McKendry (for the League followers)

er.. no one else I can think of 




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  #1252788 7-Mar-2015 15:42
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My wife's family consider themselves direct descentants of Hone Heke



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  #1252794 7-Mar-2015 15:56
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To answer my own question,

There are a couple in my family - Boyd Webb a pretty well known photographer and Tui St George Tucker a composer.
Also one of my relations was the only person in NZ to paint on cobwebs, but not sure if she was well known.

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  #1252858 7-Mar-2015 17:56
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My Eldest Daughter is the current Editor of the Matamata Chronicle. Famous im my eyes of course




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  #1253208 8-Mar-2015 10:31
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i'm a pretty big movie star, most of you will know who I am.................. oh wait, that's Edward Regan Murphy, not me ;)




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  #1253315 8-Mar-2015 14:11
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I thought of one - not exactly famous, but I had a great step uncle who was captured at the fall of Singapore by the Japs and forced to work on the Burma railway before being moved to a POW camp on mainland Japan and then being liberated by the Americans.

He actually ended up moving to NZ a few years after the war ended.





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#1253320 8-Mar-2015 14:20
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Jack Tame - One News. Case Closed lol




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  #1253377 8-Mar-2015 15:57
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I am from a family of common folk :(

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