Parent Family Relatives:

Madonna, Céline Dion, and Camilla Parker-Bowles

 

What do pop queen Madonna, Canadian singer Céline Dion and the Prince of Wales' mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? One genealogist claims that they are all related.

 

American genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner has found that Bowles' great-grandparents from nine generations ago were also ancestors of the two singers. The relevant individuals, all French-Canadians, lived in the seventeenth century. Camilla and Madonna are both descended from Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677), while Camilla and Céline descend from Jean Guyon (1619-1694) - both of whom died in Château-Richer, Quebec. In fact, almost everyone with French-Canadian ancestry can find these two men in their family trees as well. So if you can find these two men in your lines, you, too, are a distant cousin of Madonna, Céline Dion, and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

 

Using Vernon and siblings as an example: Zacharie Cloutier is Vernon’s 9th Great Grandfather. Jean Guyon is among his 8th great granduncles. Madonna and Vernon are 7th cousins, once removed. Céline Dion and Vernon are 8th cousins, once removed

 

You can see William Addams Reitwiesner’s work at: http://members.aol.com/eurostamm/camilla.html.

 

You can also view Madonna’s ancestry on Genealogy.com’s website. In fact, you can even download a GEDCOM file from that site to your hard drive and then import that data directly into your Windows or Macintosh genealogy program. That certainly saves a lot of manual typing! Look at http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/madonna/index.html for details.

 

You can find an excellent webpage detailing Céline Dion’s ancestry (in French) at http://jfloiseau.homestead.com/files/celine/menu/frame.htm

 

NOTE: All of the information presented on the webpages mentioned is offered on an "as is" basis. Accuracy of the information is not guaranteed by anyone. As with any genealogy information, it is up to you to verify the accuracy of the data by independent means.

 

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