New series next week on the Beeb of Who Do You Think You Are?

[Top-of-the-hill]

    "Re Ed Balls' family, I would be interested if anyone found out what happened to Mary Green."

 Rather to my surprise, I think I have found them in 1841; did they live in Winfarthing? Christopher 59. Mary 58, and 2 sons.

[Romilly]

I really enjoyed this one, - at last someone who wasn’t related to Edward III!
Much more relatable, I thought.

Romilly 🙂

[Millmoor]

I thought this was an excellent end to the series.

Following on from the above post Christopher Green appears to be recorded as a widower and a pauper in the workhouse in the 1851 census ( showing as Christopher Green Senior in the index I looked at). Possible burial for Mary Green in Winfarthing May 23, 1848, age 66.

William

[Keith Sherwood]

Didn't they show on the programme with his death registration  at the age of 80, that Christopher Green died there in the Workhouse? I wonder whether he remained to the last as radical as he had been as a younger man.  Or whether he slowly bent to the regime of the institution where he eventually spent so many years.  Whether the authorities there kept a special eye on him as a known former "troublemaker"...
Keith

[Familysearch]

I need to watch this one again.. Blean, Kent was mentioned, and I have someone in my tree (very little information) who was born in Blean.
It might not progress my tree any further, but nice to see where she might have walked!

FS

[Top-of-the-hill]

  If you want any help with that, F.S. let me know! My ancestors stayed the other side of Canterbury, but I drive through Blean quite often.
  The workhouse was near Herne; if I remember rightly it was the Blean Union.

[Familysearch]

Might take you up on that TOT.  She married a Canterbury man!
FS

[Familysearch]

Hi TotH.  Have started a new thread on my ancestor, born in Blean.

FS

[IgorStrav]

Have only just caught up with the Josh Widdecombe episode last night (I'd watched all the rest, good series), though I knew he'd had some interesting results.

What a fantastic tree to uncover (although of course we're probably all related to Edward I in some way), and how engaging a subject was he.

Every single discovery was welcomed with complete incredulity and amazement by Josh who evidently regards himself as just an ordinary person.

Which of course, we all are,(possibly) related to Henry VIII, and to Edward I, or not.   


Added:  I'd love to know if he told his family, or made them watch the programme so he could see their amazement in real time