BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #8: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

[toni*]

well i was trying to read the other names on the grave stone

it did seem a bit boring this time 

[lizdb]

well i was trying to read the other names on the grave stone

same here! Seemed to be a wealth of information there.

I was disappointed that there was nothing at all on the Llewelyn Bowen side.

Quite interesting - another trip to Greenwich was interesting to me as I've been there, but Mariners were mentioned in David Suchet's so not so interesting for others.

Agree that lots seemed to be skipped over - not a good example to anyone starting the hobby. And left those longer-in-the-tooth at it a bit frustrated.

[Nick29]

anyone fancy reading the Chancery account regarding the disputed Will of George Yeo which they skipped over quite quickly

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hbADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275&dq=George+yeo#PPA275,M1

Well, that seems a lot more complicated than the programme outlined !

In the programme, under the notes where it showed that Mr Tricker had paid £2000+ for the estate, there was a part about "conversion to freehold", so it appears that he may not have actually owned the land that the grand house stood on ?

[Romilly]

Just wish they'd covered the Llewellyn side - purely for the selfish reason that I have Llewellyns in my tree. But I suppose the likelihood of there actually being a connection was pretty minimal!! 

I spent the last 20 minutes of the programme shouting "Where are the Llewellyn-Bowens ?" at the screen !
His mother's side was all very intriguing, but we do recognise the personalities by their father's names.

I was doing this too!!!

(I wonder if it's because they were really called 'Brown' or something...& just invented the 'Llewellyn-Bowen' bit as being a suitable moniker for a Harley Street Surgeon?)

Romilly

[lizdb]

(I wonder if it's because they were really called 'Brown' or something...& just invented the 'Llewellyn-Bowen' bit as being a suitable moniker for a Harley Street Surgeon?)

but that would hav emade an interesting programme!

[tauntonbuff]

Well I have enjoyed the whole series.  I kept an eye open for anyone I knew at Taunton Records Office where I live but saw no-one!  I have now watched the repeats of previous series on UK TV History (I think) and have been rivetted to the screen.  If one ignores the questionable celebrity status of the subjects I think it was very informative for family history delvers like me.  It has certainly spurred me on.  The memsahib who has very little interest in my family history researchings has also thoroughly enjoyed this series.

I thought that the Jodie Kidd episode (whoever she might be) was the most interesting and I was fascinated by the full circle to Yorkshire....good stuff indeed.  John Suchet...........well I love Poirot so this was a must


Regards

Alan

[suey]

We sat through it and enjoyed seeing straight forward research being done,apart from the quick visit to Germany all home grown at last. It showed the importance of researching even well established family stories. He used many of the basic tools so familiar to us all, census, wills, Parish Registers, military records and memorial stones as well as family recollections  infact all the things we advise beginners to try. perhaps this should have been the first in the series rather than the last
Trees

I agree!  If you are just starting out it does show that you never know what's out there in the archives waiting to be found.

They skipped past several names to get to a few of the more interesting bits,

Obviously nothing interesting to say about them but a mention of where born and an occupation would have been good.

What about poor old George, I'll bet as the eldest son he thought he was up for inheriting the whole estate, with perhaps a small bequest to each of his siblings.
I can imagine that he truly did think he was 'done out' of his inheritance, especially as it was his youngest sisters husband who had the cash to buy the place....he must have seen it as adding insult to injury.

Suey

[Petros]

It was a disappointing episode The first 15 minutes devoted to the sinking of his grandfather's ship was of little interest as family history, but the Chancery case later did show how information might be gleaned from such events.

His father was apparently born in 1932 but FreeBMD doesn't like hyphenated names so it is not easily possible to search for other L-Bs to try and ascertain whence the hyphen arose.

[toni*]

re the visit to Germany when Laurence was trying to establish whether anyone was to balme for teh sinking of his grandfathers vessel, i didn't think this was right and could have caused concern to relatives of the captain of the ship in question (was it the Narcissus?) i was glad that the German guy said that even if the Captain was drunk in charge the other crew members should be capable of carrying out their jobs.