Which Cambridgeshire or Huntingdonshire notable are you most closely connected to?

Question

Last week's WikiTree Challenge to benefit the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has us looking at notables from that area in the Connection Finder. We start with Oliver Cromwell, the victorious leader of the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil Wars.

Here are the other ten notables. If these connections interest you, join us live or watch our video event on Wednesday, August 16.

• Francis Bacon, inventor of the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell (used in the Apollo missions)
• Joanna Bromley, only surviving child of former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano
• David of Scotland
• Miles Jeffrey Game Day, World War I flying ace
• William Wade Ellis, artist, naturalist, and surgeon's mate
• Winifred Fair, aviator and first female pilot to be checked out on a Hurricane fighter
• Soame Jenyns, art historian
• Ernest Rutherford,  "father of nuclear physics"
• Charles Stacey, US Army Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Margery Stephenson, biochemist

Which of these is closest to you on our single family tree? If you're one of the 30.4 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree, you can check with the Connection Finder.

In addition to the above and our many Featured Connections, you can check your connections to any category on WikiTree, such as First English Civil War and Ace Fighter Pilots. Click the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page.

Let us know how you're related below. If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Ruth Handler and Oliver Cromwell. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

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Comments

Please check the hyperlink for Margery Stephenson. It directs to Charles Stacey.

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Fixed. Thanks, Mack.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Oliver Cromwell at 17 degrees of separaton.

Ancestor:

• 27 degrees from David of Scotland (25th GGF)

Cousins:

• 17 degrees from Oliver Cromwell (6C, 13R)
• 21 degrees from Tom Bacon (10C, 3R)
• 20 degrees from Roger Jenyns (13C, 3R)

No Relationship Found:

• 20 degrees from Charles Stacey 
• 21 degrees from Winifred Fair
• 23 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
• 24 degrees from Miles Day
• 26 degrees from Joanna Bromley
• 28 degrees from Marjory Stephenson
• 31 degrees from William Ellis

Comments

Not sure what it means but my results were very similar to yours Tommy. Oliver Cromwell at 16 degrees and David of Scotland at 27 degrees and my 25th GGF.

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I'm 17 degrees from Oliver Cromwell.

Answer 2

I am 21 degrees from To Bacon (23rd cousin)

21 degrees fro Roger Jenyns (23 rd cousins once removed)

22 degrees from Oliver Cromwell (17th cousin 8 times removed)

24 degrees from Winifred Fair

24 degrees from Ernest Rutherford

25 degrees from Miles Day

26 degrees from Charles Stacey

27 degrees from Joanna Bromley

28 degrees from David of Scotland Fourth cousins 23 times removed

30 degrees from Majory Stephenson

31 degrees from William Ellis.

Answer 3

I am most closely connected to Ernest Rutherford at 17 degrees.

Answer 4

Cousins

• 19 degrees - Oliver Cromwell - 11C13R (MRCA - Roesia Pantulf, William Trussell)
• 23 degrees - Roger Jenyns - 16C3R (MRCA - Elizabeth Butler, Peter Dutton)
• 24 degrees - Francis Bacon - 14C6R (MRCA - John Danvers, Joane Bruley)
• 28 degrees - David of Scotland - 1C30R (MRCA - William de Warenne, Isabel Vermandois)

No Relationship

• 19 degrees - Winifred Fair
• 20 degrees - Charles Stacey
• 23 degrees - Ernest Rutherford
• 28 degrees - Miles Day
• 28 degrees - Marjory Stephenson
• 29 degrees - Joanna Bromley
• 30 degrees - William Ellis

Comments

Hi, Joel!

Joel and Valeri are 12th cousins—and we have 27 other common ancestors!

Joel Zummak and Valeri Shafer are both descendants of Sarah (Unknown) Camp (abt.1600-1645). 27 common ancestors were found between Joel and Valeri.

Answer 5

17 degrees from Oliver Cromwell. 6th cousin 12 times removed. MRCA Elizabeth (Stafford) Tuchet (abt 1375 - 1447).

19 degrees from Charles Stacey.

21 degrees from Francis Bacon. 12th cousin 2 times removed. MRCA Thomas Roydon (abt 1484 - aft 1557).

21 degrees from Winifred Fair.

21 degrees from Soame Jenkyns. 12th cousin 4 times removed. MRCA Elizabeth (Hill) Rhode (1500 - aft 1561).

21 degrees from Margery Stephenson.  

22 degrees from Ernest Rutherford.

24 degrees from David of Scotland. 23rd great grandfather.

24 degrees from Miles Day.

26 degrees from Joanna Bromley.

28 degrees from William Wade Elllis.

Answer 6

16 degrees from Charles Stacey, four branches (2-3-3-9)

17 degrees from Oliver Cromwell, Cromwell-39, 8th cousin ten times removed MRCA Eleanor (Strange) de Grey (abt. 1328 - 1396), Strange-931, Reynold (Grey) de Grey (abt.. 1323 - 1388), Grey-8

18 degrees from Winifred Mary (Harrisson) Fair, Harrisson-102, 9th cousin once removed MRCA Jeanne De Marets (1590 - 1631), De_Marets-12, Roeloff Lucassen Seubering (1596 - 1654). Seubering-1

20 degrees from Roger Soame Jenyns, Jenyns-47, 15th cousin MRCA Robert Constable (1423 - 1488), Constable-47, Agnes Wentworth (-1496), Wentworth-7

22 degrees from Ernest Rutherford OM FRS

22 degrees from Francis Thomas Bacon OBE FREng, Bacon-6108, 14th cousin MRCA Margaret (Mainwaring) Grosvenor (abt. 1463 - 1510), Mainwaring-19, Randall Grosvenor (1452 - 1522), Grosvenor-7

24 degrees from Marjory Stephenson

24 degrees from David of Scotland, Dunkeld-132, 22nd great-granduncle MRCA Ada (Warenne) Countess of Northumberland and Queen Mother of Scotland (aft. 1123 - abt. 1178), Warenne-18, Henry (Dunkeld) Earl of Huntington and Northumberland (abt.  1114 - 1152), Dunkeld-1.  Dunkeld-132, (1), his daughter, Isabelle (Huntingdon) de Bruce (1199 - 1252), Huntingdon-10, 22nd great grandmother, her husband, Robert (Bruce) Bruce Fourth Lord of Annandale (abt. 1195 - abt. 1245), Bruce-177, 22nd great grandfather, Dunkeld-132, (2), his daughter, Ada (Huntingdon) de Hastings (abt. 1200 - abt. 1242), Huntingdon-25, 21st great grandmother, her husband, Sir Henry (Hastings) de Hastings (abt. 1205 - bef. 1250), Hastings-1272, 21st great grandfather.  Dunkeld-132,  (1), his brother, Malcolm (Dunkeld), King of Scots (1141 - 1165), Dunkeld-41, 23rd great grandfather,  Dunkeld-132, (2), his sister, Margaret "Margery" (de Bohun) Dunkeld (abt. 1145 - abt. 1201), Dunkeld-28, 23rd great grandmother

26 degrees from Miles Jeffery Game Day DSC

27 degrees from Joanna (Vassa) Bromley

29 degrees from William Wade Ellis

Answer 7

16 degrees from Oliver Cromwell (8th cousins, 14x removed)
17 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
18 degrees from Charles Stacey
19 degrees from Winifred Fair (8th cousins, 3x removed)
20 degrees from Roger Jenyns (11th cousins, 2x removed)
22 degrees from Tom Bacon (11th cousins, 3x removed)
25 degrees from Miles Day
25 degrees from William Ellis
26 degrees from Joanna Bromley
26 degrees from David of Scotland (24th gg uncle)
26 degrees from Marjory Stephenson

Answer 8

I am related to four of the Cambridgeshire/Huntingdonshire notables:

1) 18º Oliver Cromwell: 6th cousins/10xr, MRCA Cecily (Hinkley) Caldebeck

2) 20º Roger Soame Jenyns: 16th cousins/1xr, MRCA Elizabeth (Butler) Dutton

3) 22º Tom Bacon: 17th cousins, MRCA Elizabeth (Butler) Dutton

4) 26º David of Scotland: 1st cousins/25xr, MRCA Maud (Huntingdon) of Scotland

Other non-related Cambridgeshire/Huntingdonshire notables:

16º Charles Stacey; 19º Winifred Fair; 20º Ernest Ruthford; 26º Miles Day; 27º Jonna Bromley, William Ellis and Marjory Stephenson

So proud to have this heritage from Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire!

Answer 9

 I am

•  17 degrees from Oliver Cromwell
• 22 degrees from Tom Bacon 11th c 1xr
• 25 degrees from Joanna Bromley
• 24 degrees from David of Scotland 23rd great grand uncle
• 25 degrees from Miles Day
• 28 degrees from William Ellis
• 19 degrees from Winifred Fair 8th c 2r
• 20 degrees from Roger Jenyns 15 c 1xr
• 23 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
• 18 degrees from Charles Stacey
• 26 degrees from Marjory Stephenson 

Answer 10

Related to Cromwell on my mother's side - he would be my 6th cousin many times removed.

Duncan of Scotland is my 23rd great grandfather on my father's side. Already had him in my tree. My Dad's mother seems to be related to everyone interesting - bunches of mistresses, rulers, a few saints and a pope.

Answer 11

My closest by degrees were (at 18):

Oliver Cromwell (9th cousin, 12 times removed)

Tom Bacon (14th cousin, twice removed)

Joanna Bromley (no known relationship)

Winifred Fair (9th cousin, 3 times removed)

David of Scotland is a 25th great, grandfather.

Answer 12

• 16 Degrees to Oliver Cromwell 9C 11xR (Uncertain)
• 17 Degrees to Charles Stacey
• 20 Degrees to Roger Soame Jenyns 17C 3xR
• 21 Degrees to Ernest Rutherford
• 21 Degrees to Winifred Mary (Harrisson) Fair
• 23 Degrees to Francis Thomas Bacon 13C 4xR
• 25 Degrees to  David of Scotland 24th great grandfather
• 26 Degrees to Miles Jeffery Game Day
• 28 Degrees to Joanna (Vassa) Bromley
• 28 Degrees to William Wade Ellis

Answer 13

Ancestor:

24 degrees - David of Scotland (23rd GGF)

Cousins:

17 degrees - Oliver Cromwell (10C, 10R)
19 degrees - Winifred Fair (8C, 2R) - 1 branch
20 degrees - Roger Jenyns (9C, 1R)
21 degrees - Christol James (22C, 1R)
22 degrees - Tom Bacon (12C, 1R)

Connections:

17 degrees - Charles Stacey
22 degrees - Ernest Rutherford
25 degrees - Miles Day
27 degrees - Marjory Stephenson
28 degrees - Joanna Bromley
30 degrees - William Ellis

Answer 14

My closest Connection is 12 Degrees from Ernest Rutherford, but that's mostly the Kiwi Connection. He died in Cambridge (UK) in 1937 - the same year my parents were born. 

Answer 15

David of Scotland- by virtue of the gateway ancestor  Audrey Barlow (Almy) ---   Grand Uncle only I think -- by virtue of his brother William Dunkeld.  Aylesbury, Pabenham, Engaine, Fauconberg, Ros/Roos  ... otoh - considering that I misread David of Scotland to have meant David I ...   well, it made a difference.   I'm guessing it is about 25-27 generations back - although I haven't mapped the exact distance yet (too much other stuff to do) - although once you get into the Dunkelds, those sort of end up standing out.

Am pretty sure I am related to Oliver Cromwell - but considering, effectively, he sold another Great Grandfather to indentured servitude at the Saugus ironworks (James Adams) -- I guess, since Adams only had children once he got to North America, and despite how horrible the post battle of Dunbar was for Scots' prisoners, still in all, technically I owe my existence to Cromwell and the events of September 1650.

Answer 16

The closest of the listed group is 15 degrees for Oliver Cromwell and the rest are in the lower 20's.

Answer 17

I live in Cambridgeshire and loved working on this as my first ever challenge  didn’t think I’d find personal connections as not born on the area.  No direct relationships but we are all connected nether the less  

• 30 degrees from Oliver Cromwell
• 30 degrees from Tom Bacon
• 30 degrees from Joanna Bromley
• 33 degrees from Miles Day
• 35 degrees from William Ellis
• 32 degrees from Winifred Fair
• 30 degrees from Roger Jenyns
• 22 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
• 32 degrees from Charles Stacey
• 34 degrees from Marjory Stephenson
• 32 degrees from Christol James

Answer 18

I live in Cambridgeshire and loved working on this as my first ever challenge  didn’t think I’d find personal connections as not born on the area.  No direct relationships but we are all connected nether the less  

• 30 degrees from Oliver Cromwell
• 30 degrees from Tom Bacon
• 30 degrees from Joanna Bromley
• 33 degrees from Miles Day
• 35 degrees from William Ellis
• 32 degrees from Winifred Fair
• 30 degrees from Roger Jenyns
• 22 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
• 32 degrees from Charles Stacey
• 34 degrees from Marjory Stephenson
• 32 degrees from Christol James

Answer 19

My closest relation is David of Scotland, who is my 21^st great-grandfather. My closest connections are Oliver Cromwell and  Charles Stacey at 18 degrees.

 

Ancestors and Cousins

• 18 degrees from Oliver Cromwell – 10^th cousin, 10x removed.
• 20 degrees from Soame Jenyns – 14^th cousin, 1x removed.
• 20 degrees from Francis Bacon – 9^th cousin, 1x removed.
• 23 degrees from David of Scotland – 21^st great-grandfather.

Connections

• 18 degrees from Charles Stacey – 4 branches (3-2-5-9)
• 21 degrees from Winifred Fair – 3 branches (11-3-8)
• 22 degrees from Miles Jeffrey Game Day – 4 branches (4-8-3-8)
• 23 degrees from Ernest Rutherford – 4 branches (3-3-5-13)
• 23 degrees from Joanna Bromley – 6 branches (1-3-2-3-10-5)
• 26 degrees from Margery Stephenson – 7 branches (2-4-4-4-4-3-6)
• 29 degrees from William Wade Ellis – 6 branches (2-7-5-2-5-9)

Answer 20

18 degrees from Oliver Cromwell - 4 branches (2-6-6-5) 9 cousin 11x removed

20 degrees from Charles Stacey - 4 branches (2-7-9-3)

21 degrees from Winifred Fair - 4 branches (8-3-7-4)

21 degrees from Soame Jenyns - 3 branches (11-4-7) 15th cousin 5x removed

22 degrees from Francis Bacon - 3 branches (1-6-16) 12th cousin 4x removed

24 degrees from Ernest Rutherford - 4 branches (2-8-3-12)

24 degrees from Margery Stephenson - 5 branches (2-4-5-2-12)

26 degrees from Miles Jeffrey Game Day - 5 branches (4-7-5-3-8)

27 degrees from Joanna Bromley - 4 branches (5-5-13-5)

29 degrees from David of Scotland - 1 branch (30) 27th great grandfather

29 degrees from William Wade Ellis - 6 branches (2-7-1-13-3-4)