BBC "Who Do You Think You Are?" Gareth Malone (WDYTYA Series 12 Episode 5)

[kooky]

This was a happy episode, no tears, no graves!
Agree too much singing, but he did do some of his own investigating.
Some real genealogy, but lots of family info left out.
Kooky

[sallyyorks]

....I would have liked them to look into Dan's parents I think they were probably Irish. Dan was baptised in an RC church in Leeds in 1823. His parents were called Patrick and Mary....

There was plenty of  English Catholics though, especially in areas like Yorkshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire .
I have 3 completely seperate branches of English Catholics in my tree at this time period. My grt grandmother was born in Leeds and her family were Catholic ag labs from around the Knaresborough / York area originally . On another branch  my grandmother was Catholic, from her fathers family , who were all from Lancashire.

I think Lowry is a name quite common to Lancashire /Yorkshire

[jennifer c]

Ok, it was a bit 'light', but at least it made be smile.

It is not all about dates, names and places, how many of us would love to have this type of insight into our relatives lives.
Jennifer

[Vengeur]

What the prog. didn't address (and I don't think I'm going mad here!) is that Gareth's grandfather was Edmund WHITE (the son of a male PAYNE) [Gareth's mother was born Sian WHITE].

So what happened?

[california dreamin]

Yes!! Was just signing on to say the same thing!   

Did I miss something....

[Blue70]

....I would have liked them to look into Dan's parents I think they were probably Irish. Dan was baptised in an RC church in Leeds in 1823. His parents were called Patrick and Mary....

There was plenty of  English Catholics though, especially in areas like Yorkshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire .
I have 3 completely seperate branches of English Catholics in my tree at this time period. My grt grandmother was born in Leeds and her family were Catholic ag labs from around the Knaresborough / York area originally . On another branch  my grandmother was Catholic, from her fathers family , who were all from Lancashire.

I think Lowry is a name quite common to Lancashire /Yorkshire

I couldn't find a local marriage for the parents so I thought they weren't locals and could have been Irish migrants. Can anyone find the marriage of Patrick Lawry/Lowry/Lowrey to Mary some time before 1823? I know the surname appears in Ireland and there are Irish people of this surname living in England on various census records. Being called Patrick while living in England, being RC and having a son who sings Irish songs makes me think Dan had Irish ancestry.


Blue

[Vengeur]

Yes!! Was just signing on to say the same thing!   

Did I miss something....

Glad to say then I'm not going mad! It wasn't mentioned at all in the programme but it surely deserved some comment!

[Mowsehowse]

Yes!! Was just signing on to say the same thing!     Did I miss something.... 

Glad to say then I'm not going mad! It wasn't mentioned at all in the programme but it surely deserved some comment! 

Not necessarily perhaps...... after all Gareth was wanting to find out about further back and that is what he did.

Although it seems the family did know quite a lot, I suspect this programme was inserted to balance the series budget.  A much cheaper episode, (though for me, more interesting,) than Ms Hall touring the USA.

[Mowsehowse]

p.s. In life there can NEVER be too much singing, surely??