WDYTYA Series 21

[california dreamin]

Did we watch the same programme?  Men might have been conscripted to fill war time shortages and therefore remained in the UK under the Bevan Boy scheme however, men who were already miners were in a 'reserved' occupation. This man was not a Bevan Boy.

The man in this programme (somehow) was able to join the Army and was sent to the Far East, he was captured by the Japanese and (unfortunately) ended up in one of their mines, and had a fatal accident.

CD

[martin hooper]

The 'becoming pregnant while husband is at sea' storyline mirrors an episode in my own family. There was a family story that my grandmother had such a child which was subsequently given up for adoption. My research proved that it was indeed the case, by using the same method that they did - I followed the Royal Navy records to reveal that my grandfather was at sea when the child was conceived.

The baby retained his birth name so I was able to follow what happened to him.

Martin

[coombs]

Or you find the baby's father named on the birth cert died 3 years before the baby was born. My 3xgreat aunt's husband died in 1874 and she had a baby in 1877 and gave her late husband's name.

I have ancestors who were fishermen and watermen but it seems they were local ones in Essex and London. Although one of them may have travelled to Oxford one time, hence why he met an Oxford woman and they wed in 1866 in London then he took her back to Essex, unless they met in London.

[dowdstree]

I did enjoy this episode very much. Vicky came over as a really nice lady and interesred in what the researchers had found for out for her.

California dreamin. Just to make a point here about miners serving in WW2. My husbands aunt married a miner in 1937. He served in Malaya and was killed in action there between 1st and 7th February 1942 aged 26.  His body was never recovered and the aunt was left a widow at 22 with 2 little boys to bring up on her own.

Dorrie

[andrewalston]

I enjoyed episode 2 much more than I do Paddy McGuinness's usual TV appearances. This may be because I knew many of the places visited. I didn't get to see the original registers though. Ordinary folk have to make do with microfilms!

I just wish that the programme makers explained how they located where in Ireland to start looking for records. 

[jaywit]

Andrew I think people will think accessing Irish parish records is easy.

Mind you I like the priest writing 'living in fornication' in the  margin.

[Jebber]

I have  come across several Baptisms where a note has been made, Born of fornication.  I think it was in Essex but it was a long time ago. There were other very pointed comments about the lives of some of the parishioners. The incumbent must have been a Preacher of the Fire and Brimstone kind, making clear his disapproval.

[KGarrad]

Fornication was the sin of getting a child on an unmarried woman.

[BillyF]

I wasn`t going to watch the Paddy McGuiness episode, but as I`ve watched every previous series I thought I`d carry on!

Some interesting parts to it, but it did make it look as if it is an easy thing to obtain all the information !!