AGI – New Zealand actor Russell Crowe is certain that he is descended from AGI Simon Fraserthe 11th Lord Lovat and the last beheaded in the United Kingdom.
As the artist published in It is said that upon discovering this, Fraser began to laugh, whereupon he was executed, thus becoming responsible for the expression “laughing out loud.”
Simon Fraser (1667-1747) was sentenced to death High treasonfor taking part in the Jacobite rebellion, which sought to restore James II Stuart and his descendants to the throne of England.
On the other hand, Crowe also shared his discovery that the father of one of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was theItalian Luigi Ghezzi, who traveled to New Zealand in 1864 after meeting Mary Ann Curtain, his ex-wife, in Cape Town, South Africa. He admitted he still has a long way to go in researching his genealogy as the Irish origins revealed by DNA testing of some of his close relatives are not yet known. However, he indicated that he had already discovered “Norwegian, Italian, Scottish and Maori connections” in his family history.
“It’s nice to finally discover the Italian connection, which, even though I’ve seen a lot of Italy, comes from places I’ve never been before,” he concluded.
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