BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 8 Episode #2: Rupert Everett

[mshrmh]

I'm wondering if this series' theme is undiscovered families - bigamous marriages/illegitimate children not known to the "first" family?

I can't say I took to Rupert Everett on what we saw, but I did find the "story" interesting - the grains of truth in amongst the rest. Like others I'd gathered from press reports that they seemed spoiled for choice on which angles/lines to follow on the programme.

[groom]

As Dave said, the content of the programme was interesting, but the way it was presented was poor.  I thought Rupert appeared bored at times with the whole thing and seemed to be wishing he was else where.  He jumped to conclusions without looking properly at the facts. Best bit was his great aunt.

Jan

[Rena]

I found the programme interesting.  Like quite a few people on here I would have liked more information on certain facts which had been ommitted but I realise the producer probably had too many filmed scenes and had to choose which ones to discard.   I cringed at the meeting where Rupert said the rellie owed him £1K - then wondered if it was left in to shock us and who's to know whether it had been filmed more than once because somebody fluffed his lines.

[singingsusie]

I quite agree there were the elements that could have made an excellent programme.  It is often said clogs to clogs in three generations!  There were odd gaps, and so much unanswered, I can only assume it was as I said earlier a cobbled together rush job.

[Emjaybee]

A refreshing hours snooze.

[katherinem]

I found Georgina in 1881 and her parents in 1861 but on a quick skim nothing obvious in 1871 - I think I found her mother's death in 1883 .  Her father's death in 1875 in Marylebone.  Her marriage to Frederick Everett in 1883. No sign of the Teague's in 1871 .....where does Georgina go.  I did a quick search for Georgina Everett  but nothing seemed to jump out !!!
N

I thought Georgina was dismissed far too quickly.  She was actually born Georgina Esther Martha Teague.  Have been looking at the 1891 census; have found a Georgina Ester Lethersich born 1866 in Middlesex, living in Tunbridge Wells, which looking at the map isn't far from her son in Horton Kirby.  Unfortunately I do not have a subscription to any census so cannot look at the name, of course it could have been misheard.  Just a thought!

[avm228]

I thought Georgina was dismissed far too quickly.  She was actually born Georgina Esther Martha Teague.  Have been looking at the 1891 census; have found a Georgina Ester Lethersich born 1866 in Middlesex, living in Tunbridge Wells, which looking at the map isn't far from her son in Horton Kirby.  Unfortunately I do not have a subscription to any census so cannot look at the name, of course it could have been misheard.  Just a thought!

From FreeBMD:

Birth, Sep qtr 1865

Georgina Esther LETHERSICH

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[Floss]

Seems like I'm going to be in the minority here but I really enjoyed this weeks episode    I liked Rupert Everett and I found it amusing that he made up stories whenever he found out new information, like Frederick with his tattoos who must be living with a fish woman, or how he left the house in Picadilly saying he would never return and ran off to sea.   Yes they skipped over a lot of information and left alot of questions unanswered but on the whole I liked it.

 The trouble with WDYTYA is that they make family research look so easy and anyone wanting to start tracing their family tree must think its a doddle. 

[sarahsean]

I absolutely hated this episode! Rupert Everett is a horrible man. How he looked down his nose at anyone who is not upper class like himself. I was born in Balham and my family had lived in that area for generations. Nothing wrong with it at all. I was delighted to hear his ancestor had been a thief. 

I was interested in the mariner details as one of my ancestors had done this although 50 years earlier.  Something to look into.

I would have liked them to have concentrated a little more on Georgina Teague and looked into why she gave away her child. Even to have let us know when  she died would have completed the story a  little more.


Far too rushed an episode but will be watching again next week.

Sarah