BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 10 Episode #1: Una Stubbs

[pennyannesherratt]

I really enjoy it, but found i didn't enjoy Cherie Lunghi voice over please bring back Mark Strong,  it felt like she was talking down to me, it's hard to explain,but i just want her to shut up

[dinkey]

I thought Una very modest. She said she did not tell people about ther Gt Grandfather Ebenezer because she did not want to boast.

However, I found it a bit odd that she never obtained her father's birth certificate herself to find out her grandparents names.

[Lydart]

I think some people just don't know how to do these things .... I didn't until I started serious FH

[SmallTownGirl]

One of her cousins knew that her own father was illegitimate but said that Clarence, Una's father, was definitely ("Oh, definitely!") Arthur's son with Annie before they got married; and Una said she could "see" her father in Arthur.

I don't see what was definite about it at all. 

Clarence's middle name is Watson, and that's a bit of red flag to me for him being Arthur Stubbs' son.  It was quite usual for an unmarried mother to give her child a name referencing the father, even if he couldn't be named officially on the birth certificate.  Just because Arthur and Annie lived opposite each other in the same street and Clarence was born at Arthur's house, doesn't actually make Arthur the father.  If he was, would it have been so unusual to have his name on the birth certificate? and if Arthur was Clarence's father, why didn't they marry before he was born? 

I appreciate we'll never know, but I felt that this bit was skated over a bit too easily.

[halhawk]

Arthur states there were 2 children born to the marriage, at a point when Alwyn has also been born - so some support to the idea that Arthur is Clarence's father?

[stonechat]

One of her cousins knew that her own father was illegitimate but said that Clarence, Una's father, was definitely ("Oh, definitely!") Arthur's son with Annie before they got married; and Una said she could "see" her father in Arthur.

I don't see what was definite about it at all. 

Clarence's middle name is Watson, and that's a bit of red flag to me for him being Arthur Stubbs' son.  It was quite usual for an unmarried mother to give her child a name referencing the father, even if he couldn't be named officially on the birth certificate.  Just because Arthur and Annie lived opposite each other in the same street and Clarence was born at Arthur's house, doesn't actually make Arthur the father.  If he was, would it have been so unusual to have his name on the birth certificate? and if Arthur was Clarence's father, why didn't they marry before he was born? 

I appreciate we'll never know, but I felt that this bit was skated over a bit too easily.

I didn't mention earlier but this grated with me too

[lizdb]

 Me too.

Also when they looked at a census on Ancestry, and immediately said "it wont be this one" rejecting the first on the list," but it is this one".

OK, I know they had looked at it all before, and worked out which entry was the right one, but it doesnt give a good example to would-be searchers if the impression given is that a quick glance at an index will leàd you to the right person when there are several to choose from.

[Lydart]

Its all to do with getting the whole thing into a 55 minute programme ............ I often wish the programmes were a couple of hours long !!

[Petros]

If Arthur was Una's grandfather than surely her father's birth would have been re-registered after their marriage, usually seen as a handwritten correction in the GRO index.  Simply being shown as his son in the 1911 census isn't conclusive proof