BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #5: Emilia Fox

[roopat]

really enjoyed this programme but like Scintilla a bit sceptical right from the start when Emilia's father was showing her old family photos with grandparents etc & she seemed totally amazed by them - we grew up rooting through all the old family photos, my daughters all grown now, still love to get out all the family albums on occasions. How had the Foxes never done that?

Still thought they were great, especially the great-aunts

Pat

[Lydart]

really enjoyed this programme but like Scintilla a bit sceptical right from the start when Emilia's father was showing her old family photos with grandparents etc & she seemed totally amazed by them - we grew up rooting through all the old family photos, my daughters all grown now, still love to get out all the family albums on occasions. How had the Foxes never done that?

Like I said ... its a programme for the general public .... and they ARE all actors, anyway ! 

Off to stick photos in albums ... just in case I get asked to do WDYTYA !!

[panda40]

I must agree with the last post. I spent lots of school holidays staying with my granparents. I loved looking at my Gran's photo album and she would tell me who they were. I now have the album and it is still treasured to this day. I could recognise everyone and knew who was related to who long before I got the family history bug. (mind you I have lots of other photos from other families and I haven't a clue who they are so swings and rounderbouts as they say
regards panda

[Eking]

Has anyone found the second marriage of Arthur William Fox? They divorced in 1923 and according to his will the date shown at the end was 12/3/1963 so it would be interesting to locate his death as well, any luck so far???
regards panda

I wondered where all the money had gone: it might be interesting to find the will of the second wife - I wonder whether he had made some of his fortune over to her, to prevent his first wife and family inheriting it?

Cati

I wonder too. How did Hilda survive as a single Mum, did she remarry , perhaps her family supported her.

The entire Fox family appear to have grown up in well to do households

[Elliebob]

I loved this episode, especially as the great- aunts live near here and I used to see Mary walking in Fowey with her dog when I was young. A formidable lady!

Ellen

[Sandymc47]

I loved the episode of Emilia Fox as I was born in Armley, Leeds and so was my family. When she went to Armley Mills I was really chuffed as I havent been there for years as I have moved away from Leeds now. Armley Mills is about 100 metres from where I was born and lots of my family used to work in Mills like Armley and further across the River Aire in Kirkstall, Leeds. Leeds Forge is so famous a Company in Leeds and around the World and to find out it was Emilia's GGGrandad was a lovely surpirse.  When I looked on the 1881 census to find Samson  Fox I found that he lived not far from Armley Mills, or from where I was born so I feel totally connected with Emilia and her family.  Thats what I love about ancestry and you all know someone who knows somebody.   
Larry Lambs ancestry last week also connected me because his Albert Day who was connected to the menagerie with lions, reminded me of a book I have about things that happened in Armley many years ago.  When the lions came to the Armley Feast (or Fair as they call it now) the lions would stand to attention when the national anthem was played.  That is what it stated in my book. I Love WDYTYA?

regards Sandymc

[toni*]

I wonder too. How did Hilda survive as a single Mum, did she remarry , perhaps her family supported her.

my great grandfather did a flit with another woman leaving my great gran as asigle moter with 4 children the same time as Wille & Hilda. My great Gran supported her family by cleaning jobs

[xenia1]

I was told that Angela Fox, Emilia's grandmother, wrote a book about the the family.
Do not know the title. my mother had read it years ago.

[Lydart]

This one ??

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slightly-Foxed-Angela-Fox/dp/0002171619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315512642&sr=8-1