{"id":30994,"date":"2024-02-07T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cc5c334b-c8ed-4c71-afe1-68619861355a"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:34:26","slug":"taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-are-distant-cousins-family-historian-reveals","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/rss_feed\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-are-distant-cousins-family-historian-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are distant cousins, family historian reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rosemary Collins\n <\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 07 February 2024 at 14:42 PM<\/p>

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Superstar singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and American football player Travis Kelce have made headlines with their romance since last year.<\/p>

But there\u2019s one thing Swift might not have known all too well \u2013 the couple share a distant ancestor.<\/p>

American family historian Christopher C. Child delved into Swift and Kelce\u2019s family history in a blog post<\/a> for Vita Brevis, the blog of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.<\/p>

As Child explains, Swift and Kelce have a common ancestor in the form of Nicholas Knapp (c.1606-1670).<\/p>

Born in England, Knapp emigrated to America in 1630 as part of the Puritan emigration to America. He initially settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.<\/p>

According to Knapp\u2019s entry on Wikitree<\/a>, the global free family tree, court records show that shortly after his arrival Knapp \u201cwas fined 5 pounds for selling water claiming it would cure scurvy\u201d.<\/p>

In 1631 Knapp married his first wife, a woman known only as Elinor. Among the couple\u2019s nine children were Caleb Knapp, Taylor Swift\u2019s 8x great grandfather, and Ruth Knapp, Travis Kelce\u2019s 9x great grandmother. According to our cousin relationships<\/a> chart, this makes the couple tenth cousins once removed.<\/p>

Christopher C. Child stresses that this remote degree of kinship shouldn\u2019t be a concern: \u201cPeople related this far back would likely have little, if any, DNA<\/a> in common\u2026 I find distant kinships between couples this far back frequently. My own parents have common 17th-century New England ancestors, even though my father was from Florida and my mother was from Kansas.\u201d<\/p>

At the Grammy Awards on 4 February, Taylor Swift won the awards for best pop vocal album and album of the year for her album Midnights<\/em>, becoming the first artist to win album of the year four times. She also announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>, which will be released on 19 April.<\/p>

Travis Kelce is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, who will play the San Francisco 49ers at the Super Bowl on Sunday 11 February.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n