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Offline Trish1908

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WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« on: Monday 11 January 16 12:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi All
just wondered who you would like to see featured on WDYTYA?
To start the ball rolling -
Guy Martin
Helen Mirren
Paul O Grady
Pam Ferris

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Overment - Norfolk
Skillings - Norfolk
Woodhouse - Kingston upon Hull
Fell - East Yorks
Hulse - Repton, Derbyshire
Cooper - Chapel en le Frith

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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 11 January 16 12:28 GMT (UK) »
Mick Jagger because he was born in my home-town and I may learn something new  ;D

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Stoneham - Kent / Essex / Herts / Bucks / Devon
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Chappell - Herts
Hammond - Essex

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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 11 January 16 12:57 GMT (UK) »
Canadian born author David Gibbins :D

I hope we are related :)

Heres an idea to toss around the boardroom table. Fictional Characters.

Sherlock Holmes
Bob Cratchitt
The guy from chapter 8 of HG WELLS Invisible Man... now what was his name? Oh David Gibbins :D
Father Brown
Van Helsing
Colonel Brandon-Sense and Sensibility

Now I understand you wont have a family to work with but showing where the name originates and how - like brickwalls - you can utilize census records to find close matches and then match them to birth records. Such as the series the magazine ran in September to ?? Last year.

Just a thought - oh and I was serious about the author :)

Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

Brickwalls-   Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 11 January 16 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Michael Parkinson - to see if it was as boring as WDYTYA claimed or a lack of imagination by them

June Whitfield - she has traced a lot of her ancestry herself (alleged this is why WDYTYA won't do her) and I would like to see if it does go back to Whitfield in Northumberland as rumoured. Also just got a shock just now when I found out she was born in 1925, I thought she was about 80 not 90.
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 11 January 16 13:48 GMT (UK) »
Bryan Ferry, to see if his Ferrys are related to mine.
Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Kidd, Pescod, Bage Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson, Bage, Nellist N. Yorks
Challnor/Challoner Cheshire/Shropshire. Moore, Mansell: Wellington, Shropshire
Davies/ David, Coity, Glamorgan
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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #5 on: Monday 11 January 16 15:09 GMT (UK) »
Taking angelfish58's  idea.............. Tim Henman to see if he is related to my Henmans!   :D
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #6 on: Monday 11 January 16 15:18 GMT (UK) »
I'd like to see somebody off Rootschat have a brick wall smashed down.  ;D  (Me for instance  ;)  )
Williams, Owens, Pritchard, Povall, Banks, Brown.

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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #7 on: Monday 11 January 16 15:29 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Beeonthebay on Monday 11 January 16 15:18 GMT (UK)
I'd like to see somebody off Rootschat have a brick wall smashed down.  ;D  (Me for instance  ;)  )
Now that't s brilliant idea. We could raise funds by selling £1 tickets for a lottery of whose brickwall it is.

Otherwise Grayson Perry gets my vote.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
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Re: WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.
« Reply #8 on: Monday 11 January 16 16:18 GMT (UK) »
I think that if WDYTYA did a series of programs on "ordinary people" members of the public who applied, they would probably find some very interesting progams, and stories of inventions, bravery, etc.
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