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

I didn't see this in time to propose the inclusion of Arthur Guinness.

Answer 2

Struck out on this collection.

Elijah Craig   - 8th cousins 7x removed. That's it!

Answer 3

23 degrees from James Beam

22 degrees from Adolphus Busch

18 degrees from Elijah Craig

34 degrees from Nearest Green

27 degrees from Gerard Adriaan Heineken

23 degrees from Susannah Oland

21 degrees from Frederick Pabst

31 degrees from Antoine-Joseph Santerre

20 degrees from Joseph Seagram

25 degrees from Lars Olsson Smith

21 degrees from Charles Tanqueray

25 degrees from Eileen Robinson

Answer 4

My closest connection is to a distiller not mentioned in the above list:  My 1st cousin thrice removed Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr. was one of the earliest Franklin County, Kentucky bourbon distillers, following closely behind Scottish immigrant pioneer distiller Dr. James C. Crow (1789–1856). One of the last bottles from one of the last batches of Old Taylor made before EHT Jr. died in 1923 was uncorked at my parents' wedding in 1954, and now sits on my family history bookshelf.  The Old Taylor brand is now owned by Buffalo Trace Distillery.

Comments

Also distilled at Buffalo Trace Distillery is Blanton's Bourbon, named in honor of Albert Bacon Blanton, my 2nd cousin thrice removed. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit a bottle (empty or otherwise) of his bourbon $$$ !

Answer 5

14 degrees from Rev. Elijah Craig, who is also my 11th cousin, 6 times removed.  He is the only relation in this group for  me, which is unusual!

Answer 6

17 degrees from Elijah Craig (Godfather of the bourbon process), who is a 12th cousin 7x removed.

Others close in degrees, but not related:

20 degrees: Frederick Pabst

21 degrees: James Beam and Joseph Seagram

22 degrees: Charles Tanqueray

23 degrees: Susannah Oland

Bottoms up!

Answer 7

Ancestors and Cousins

• 15 Degrees - Elijah Craig (8C 9xR)
• 19 Degrees - James Beam (20C 3xR)

Connections

• 17 Degrees - Adolphus Busch
• 18 Degrees - Frederick Pabst
• 20 Degrees - Joseph Seagram
• 22 Degrees - Susannah Oland
• 23 Degrees - Charles Tanqueray
• 25 Degrees - Gerard Adriaan Heineken
• 26 Degrees - Lars Olsson Smith
• 28 Degrees - Antoine-Joseph Santerre
• 33 Degrees - Nearest Green

Answer 8

20 degrees from Jim Beam!

Answer 9

16 degrees from Elijah Craig, my 6th cousin 12 times removed.

Answer 10

Is this only for U.S brewers and distillers? One branch of my  family were brewers in England.http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Reffell%27s_Brewery_Ltd

https://www.reffell.org.uk/this-is-the-reffell-family-history-website/people/breweries-public-houses/reffells-brewery-brewery-ltd/history-of-reffells-bexley-brewery-ltd/

Answer 11

I have a tie between Jim Beam and Elijah Craig at 15 Degrees.

Answer 12

I'm closest related to Elijah Craig, 4th cousin, 10x removed, assuming no NPEs etc.

Answer 13

I was pleased to add a pic and some more detail to the profile of brewer Edward Latham (1839–1905) yesterday.

Born in England, Edward migrated to Australia and, when in Melbourne, found the Carlton brewery on the market. He bought in to the business in partnership with another man, and sold out to the Melbourne Brewing and Malting Co. in 1883.

Answer 14

8 degrees from Elijah Craig.  Direct from his brother Lewis.

Answer 15

Rev. Elijah Craig is 11th cousin 7x removed or 17 degrees.

Answer 16

Elijah Craig, 4th cousins 9x removed

Answer 17

We are connected to the Scottish brewing families such as the Youngers, McEwans, Hunters, Dudgeons etc (Belhaven Brewery) and so on.

I once knew a lovely but very posh lady. It was only recently that I discovered she was a great granddaughter  of Andrew Usher.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Usher) who paid for the wonderful Usher Hall in Edinburgh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usher_Hall)

I also discovered last year that her husband was a connection, so we now have the Ushers in our tree.

Answer 18

Me and Mr Beam are 18th cousins, 4 times removed. And that is TOO close of a relationship! 

Me and booze were not good companions. 

Both my parents worked for the Stroh brewery when it was in Detroit. My dad spent the majority of his career as an engineer there.

Answer 19

my closest links:

6th cousins, six times removed from Col. Jim Beam.

9th cousins, seven times removed from Rev. Elijah Craig

Answer 20

My distiller ancestors made whiskey in Campbeltown.  Not famous enough-- Although Campbeltown used to be THE place for whiskey.

Read more here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Campbeltown_Distilleries