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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 24 August 11 22:51 BST (UK) »
Like the US shows, this is the 3rd of the new series that has only concentrated on one particular line.   Is this to be the continuing theme?   If so, I, for one, am extremely disappointed.

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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 24 August 11 23:36 BST (UK) »
I suspect  that many of us watch WDYTYA from a differant perspective to the non ,family  researcher viewer

I often feel that the programme throws up questions which I would really like to be followed up, but there is only an hour!! (and it is supposed to be mass entertainment after all)
For instance, are there any descendants of the legitimate Hyde Clarke children as well as the other illegitimate offspring,especially the daughter mentioned in his will.
As has been said before, what about other ancestral lines? There again it would take a number of hour long programmes for each subject and that would probably be just too boring

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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 25 August 11 01:22 BST (UK) »
Here's an interesting book - Voyage of George Clarke, esq., to America.

http://www.archive.org/details/voyageofgeorgecl00clarrich

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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 25 August 11 02:44 BST (UK) »
Not having seen it yet, it doesn't inspire me to watch it when it comes to Australia.
Even if they don't dwell long on each ancestor I like to see how far they can go back (and any little thing which may be interesting), which I thought was the idea of the programme from the beginning.
Just because the US concentrate on one particular line does the UK version have to do the same?
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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 25 August 11 03:59 BST (UK) »
I wasn't too impressed with this one from the production side and Sir Seb himself was as boring as a politician can be!  His cousin, who did the initial work must have found everything out from here as its not too difficult  if you are lucky enough to hit on privileged lines and wills.

From our prospective, showing how you can access the Jamaican documents at the Familysearch HQ in London and NA for the wills and other military and NY docs would have been better, though probably a little too boring without the backdrops of Jamaica or New York for the non-FH researchers.

I was also a tad annoyed how they stopped at George Clarke... and dismissed his wife Ann Hyde as it was pretty obvious she also came from a wealthy family as the listing in the NY book listed her entry rather than the other way round! The name Hyde didn't come down the line for no reason after all and most of us would have been intrigued s to why the name had been passed down the line so much.

On the bright side, at least the Will entries stopped Sir Seb from mentioning his running at every opportunity, that was beginning to get on my nerves.  ;D ;D ;D

ps, thanks for the link Rewcastle! it explains alot about the Hydes ;) I now realise why they didn't go any further as it broaches on a subject line that is going to be used on a later episode.
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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 25 August 11 06:16 BST (UK) »
He was clearly uncomfortable about the slavery issues - and who wouldn't be?  But as one of the researchers involved pointed out, (the "inexorable") George Hyde lived the typical life of white male West Indian Plantation owners - a lifestyle probably comparable to the more dissolute film and rock stars of the twentieth century.

I thought it was a fascinating bit of British social history - even though it had no real value for my own research.

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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 25 August 11 06:48 BST (UK) »
Well, I enjoyed this one 8)
I liked his real interest in all the portraits , wills etc. that he was shown.
I agree that a mention of the illegitimate siblings' descendants would have been interesting.
Also, where in England did the New York governor originate?
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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 25 August 11 07:36 BST (UK) »
 
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His cousin, who did the initial work must have found everything out from here as its not too difficult  if you are lucky enough to hit on privileged lines and wills.

It seems odd to me that his cousin hadn't managed to uncover all about this line given the relatively abundant availability of information about it online  - for example, this is available on Ancestry:

The annals of the parish of Swainswick (near the city of Bath) : with abstracts of the register, the church accounts and the ov.

It gives quite a bit of detail re the Hydes and Clarke's. Could've saved him the trip.... :-\

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Re: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #3: Sebastian Coe
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 25 August 11 07:45 BST (UK) »

On the bright side, at least the Will entries stopped Sir Seb from mentioning his running at every opportunity, that was beginning to get on my nerves.  ;D ;D ;D


And me JC  ;D ;D ;D

I said that to my husband,when June Brown's episode was on she didn't go on and on about being an actress,nor did JK Rowling about being one of the richest writers ever.

Seb obviously felt we needed reminding all the time  ::)

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