Which Distiller or Brewer are you most closely connected to?

Question

This week in the Connection Finder, we're featuring distillers and brewers, starting with Joseph Seagram.

Featured alongside him are other distillers and brewers:

• Col. Jim Beam (Jim Beam Bourbon)
• Adolphus Busch (Anheuser Busch)
• Rev. Elijah Craig (Godfather of Bourbon process)
• Nearest Green (mentor to Jasper Daniel)
• Gerard Heineken (Heineken)
• Susannah Oland (Moosehead Brewery)
• Frederick Pabst (Pabst)
• Antoine-Joseph Santerre (Brasserie de la Magdeleine)
• Lars Olsson Smith (Absolut Vodka)
• Charles Tanqueray (Tanqueray Gin)

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 24.3 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other Distillers by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like Brewers and Maltsters.

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. Nearest Green and Jasper "Jack" Daniel. 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

Not on the list but my great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Martin-15475

Answer 1

Elijah Craig Godfather of Bourbon process

and JIm WALKER-2526 

are 12th cousins five times removed

Answer 2

I am most closely connected to Elijah Craig at 17 degrees of separation.

• 17 degrees from Elijah Craig
• 19 degrees from James Beam
• 22 degrees from Adolphus Busch
  • updated 19 Feb 2022: was 25
• 23 degrees from Frederick Pabst
• 23 degrees from Joseph Seagram
• 23 degrees from Susannah Oland
  • updated 28 May 2022: was 25
• 24 degrees from Charles Tanqueray
• 29 degrees from Gerard Adriaan Heineken
• 31 degrees from Lars Olsson Smith
• 32 degrees from Antoine-Joseph Santerre
  • updated 19 Feb 2022: was 33
• 34 degrees from Nearest Green
  • updated 28 May 2022: was 36

Answer 3

Most closely connected to Elijah Craig at 12 degrees (his great-niece married my 6th great-uncle, apparently).

Answer 4

For a guy who grew up almost within smelling distance of a couple of Bourbon distilleries, I'm poorly connected this time.

Elijah Craig is the closest, a 16 degree connection and a 9th cousin 6 times removed.  Busch is 17 degrees, but most are much further away.

Answer 5

I am 22 degrees from James Beam, 22 degrees from Adolphus Busch, 16 degrees from Elijah Craig, 33 degrees from Nearest Green, 26 degrees from Gerard Adriaan Heineken, 21 degrees from Susannah Oland, 22 degrees from Frederick Pabst, 26 degrees from Antoine-Joseph Santerre, 22 degrees from Joseph Seagram, 29 degrees from Lars Olsson Smith, 22 degrees from Charles Tanqueray and 24 degrees from Eileen Robinson..

Answer 6

I am most closely connected to Elijah Craig at 19 degrees. His 5th cousin 3 times removed was married to my great great aunt.

Answer 7

14 degrees from Elijah Craig (6th cousins, 9x removed)
20 degrees from James Beam
20 degrees from Frederick Pabst
20 degrees from Joseph Seagram
22 degrees from Adolphus Busch
22 degrees from Charles Tanqueray
24 degrees from Susannah Oland
24 degrees from Lars Olsson Smith
26 degrees from Gerard Adriaan Heineken
29 degrees from Antoine-Joseph Santerre
32 degrees from Nearest Green

Answer 8

No familial connection to any of them. Of the distillers category, a familial connection to only five and they are all so far back it would take ages to verify the connections.

Answer 9

Elijah Craig - 16th cousins 7 times removed

18 degrees from Joseph Seagram

18 degrees from Susannah Oland (was 20)

From the Distillers category, John Smith Macklem and I are 7th cousins 3x removed.

Update: Jim Beam - 21st cousins five times removed

Update: Elijah Craig now 13th cousins 6 times removed

Answer 10

14 degrees from Elijah Craig and 15 degrees from Charles Tanqueray.

Answer 11

13 degrees from Elijah Craig. 10th cousin 6 times removed. MRCA Alice (Cox) Poyntz (abt 1434 - aft 1507),

19 degrees from James Beam.

21 degrees from Adolphus Busch.

21 degrees from Susannah Oland.

21 degrees from Frederick Pabst.

22 degrees from Charles Tanqueray.

23 degrees from Gerard Adriaan Henekin.

23 degrees from Joseph Seagram.

29 degrees from Nearest Green.

29 degrees from Lars Olsson Smith.

31 degrees from Antoine-Joseph Santerre.

Answer 12

11 degrees from Elijah Craig!

Answer 13

I'm most closely related to Elijah Craig by 26 generations.  I'm 33 generations away from Joseph Washington Dant, whose 4th great-grandson was a former co-worker. 

Answer 14

• Seagram - 22 degrees
• Beam - 22 degrees
• Busch - 23 degrees
• Craig - 6th cousin 10x removed, 16 degrees
• Green - 34 degrees
• Heineken - 27 degrees
• Oland - 25 degrees
• Pabst - 21 degrees
• Santerre - 31 degrees
• Smith - 28 degrees
• Tanqueray - 23 degrees

Answer 15

It seems like most people answering, I am closest to Elijah Craig- this was a fun one from me as a bartender- we are 14 degrees separated but on the relationship finder we are 10th cousins 10x removed.

Answer 16

Elijah Craig is the granduncle of the wife of my 2nd cousin 8x removed. He is also my 12th cousin 8x removed.

Answer 17

Elijah Craig and I are 17 degrees at 8th cousins 8 times removed.  I am more closely connected to Joseph Seagram at 13 degrees, but only through marriage.

Answer 18

It funny but I hit a distiller back in Revolutionary Times. Story goes Alexander Schaeffer built distillery that provided drink at Valley Forge for  Washington Troops. The distillery remains still stand to this day it takes up about half a room so it wasn’t a small home distillery. One link below has the remains as I saw them on visit to homestead. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schaeffer-455

https://hsimuseum.org/archaeological-research-at-the-alexander-schaeffer-farmdistillery/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrailsofhistory/5932696096

Billie

Answer 19

Hey, how about Marvin Popcorn [Sutton-11500]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220369882/marvin-sutton

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Best! Richard J., Amherst County, Virginia

Answer 20

Seems shameful none of the list are Scottish or Irish famous Whisky Distillers of the original twelve major Scottish distillers (and there must be many more) and one Irish, only John (Johnnie) Walker is listed in the WT Scottish Distillers Category.

Together with the English Gin and Rum, French Brandy Distillers and all the European Brewers of Beers etc., etc., 

Comments

Yes, so many famous names like Guinness, Usher, McEwan, Younger, etc etc not to mention the Dudgeon, Hunter, families etc.

One of my favourites is the old Fowlers brewery in Prestonpans. Exactly when Robert Fowler began brewing is only ever mentioned in passing – but 1745 is consistently given as the year. Fowlers's Wee Heavy is still a firm favourite of mine