Let me explain........
For years now my potty old Mum has sworne that comiedian Johnny Vegas (real name Michael Joseph Pennington) is a close relative!!!!
Any family resemblance here??
The reason she thinks this, is the surname "Pennington" was my maternal grandmothers, maiden name!!! My nanna Ball. Born in Merseyside at the turn of the century, was married twice, and by all accounts had a sting of lovers during the war, and had 3 daughters of which my mother is the eldest, Joyce Greenall born in 1933...my auntie Anne Greenall in 1936 and my Auntie June Ball in 1942. My Nanna's maiden name was, however, Adaline (Ada) Pennington!...and like Johnny Vegas, hails from the St Helens area of Merseyside...All too sadly though its difficult to trace as the Pennington name is very common in St Helens and even has Heraldic or royal connections!
Now on Paul O'gradey Johnny is playing a flamboyant pantomime dame, and he is the "sptiiting image" of my old nanna Ball, echoing her mannerisms too!!! I nearly fell of my chair!!!!!!!!!!
I guess that will be a huge topic of conversation with my mum on our usual, nightly 9pm phone call!!! is Johnny Vegas my cousin???????
My nanna Ball was one of 15 children....does anyone know where I can trace this info, that is not ancestry.com??
Derek and Sirius think I am potty........have they only just noticed?? LOL!!!!!!!!