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Offline MarieC

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #216 on: Wednesday 02 January 08 03:33 GMT (UK) »
D'ya think it would help me with my elusive Martins, Trish, if I could find a famous descendant of theirs to be on the show??  ??? ???

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #217 on: Wednesday 02 January 08 06:59 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: MarieC on Wednesday 02 January 08 03:33 GMT (UK)
D'ya think it would help me with my elusive Martins, Trish, if I could find a famous descendant of theirs to be on the show??  ??? ???

MarieC

I would have thought you may have considered renaming those Martins by now MarieC - a slight modification to the spelling & we will surely find them on another planet  :)  :)

I think someone famous (preferably from show biz from what I have seen) is needed to be on the program  :D

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #218 on: Wednesday 02 January 08 10:05 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: trish251 on Wednesday 02 January 08 06:59 GMT (UK)

I would have thought you may have considered renaming those Martins by now MarieC - a slight modification to the spelling & we will surely find them on another planet  :)  :)


 ;D ;D ;D  It would be really funny, Trish, if I didn't cry into my evening glass or three of wine every time I think about them!

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #219 on: Wednesday 02 January 08 11:41 GMT (UK) »
Looking at the list of names & localities appearing under your name MarieC - it reminds me what a mixed up heritage we have over here (or down under as is said). Sometimes I'm amazed that we have found as many as we have.  Perhaps we should thank some of the early "Colonial Secretary" employees for being fastidius about recording who/where everyone came from on our BDM certificates  :)  - then again, some didn't care at all, as evidenced by certificates with 90% of the data missing!

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« Reply #220 on: Wednesday 02 January 08 12:03 GMT (UK) »
And that's only some of them, Trish - the ones I'm looking for on here!  I haven't put my Scottish and Irish Camerons, my Hampshire Coxes, my Welsh Halls, my West Indian French, Dutch and Irish people....

I agree, Australian certs are wonderful when compared with the English and Welsh ones!

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #221 on: Sunday 06 January 08 11:24 GMT (UK) »
Wasn't totally wrapped in the Jeremy Clarkson episode tonight.  I think I was put off by the fact that he had had a family tree done by a genealogist and handed to him completed - we all know that the fun of family history is in doing it ourselves!  Also wasn't too impressed by his cavalier disregard of ag labs and other humble folk and his preference to pursue the wealthy side of the family, as if these were the only ones who counted!  Pleased when he found there was no hidden fortune coming to him!  :)

However, the social history associated with glass making firms in the 19th and 20th centuries was interesting!

And next Sunday the Australian series starts, with Jack Thompson - WOOHOO!!!!  Though sadly I'm going to miss that episode...

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« Reply #222 on: Sunday 06 January 08 11:26 GMT (UK) »
I thought his attitude was quite "off" too, Marie.......but like you, I really enjoyed the history of the glass making company.

Can't wait for next week to see what the Aussie series is like.

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #223 on: Sunday 06 January 08 11:36 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: deeiluka on Sunday 06 January 08 11:26 GMT (UK)
I thought his attitude was quite "off" too, Marie.......but like you, I really enjoyed the history of the glass making company.

Can't wait for next week to see what the Aussie series is like.

......dee

That's just the way that Clarkson is, I presume you have not seen him on Top Gear! 

By the way, BBC Radio 4's Tracing Your Roots did a section on a couple of people who had ancestors who were transported to Australia in yesterday's programme which should be available online in Listen Again until the end of the week.

Tracing Your Roots

Martin Briscoe
BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, ClwtyBont, Brynrefail, TalySarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera

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Re: WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ
« Reply #224 on: Sunday 06 January 08 11:46 GMT (UK) »
You are right, Martin, I haven't seen him - don't particularly think I want to, actually!  Didn't warm to the man at all.

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