Who Do You Think You Are (UK) - series 22 announced

[Familysearch]

I have 16 generations. No-one famous, but pretty sure it's accurate.

[Rena]

Constable far more noteworthy than a tenuous link to a long-gone King!
I'm quite delighted that I've no Royal or noble connections anywhere! Quite proud of it, in fact.
TY

Yes TY, but it is always the poor people who died of cold and starvation and the soldiers (both rich and poor)  at the front of an army that die, which means most of us must have descended from a person of higher birth who had a trade (such as a wheelwright/shipwright/blacksmith, etc.) .  When William 1st (William the Conqueror) sailed from Normandy in Europe in 1066 to claim the throne of England from King Harold Godwinson he found that the Anglo Saxon people of the North of England (Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Northumbria) were not particularly welcoming.   William eventually claimed the throne of England after Harold died with an arrow in his eye and his followers ran off.

William exacted revenge on the northern people of England by what is known as "The Harrying Of The North" - in other words he and his men swept into every village, hamlet, etc. killing every living person they could find.

So, when an army kills all the peasants and famine/bad harvests kill off peasants in other parts of the land, it means only the lucky people who own the land such as tribal leaders, Bishops, Archbishops, Monks in Monasteries which are attached to Granges (large farms).

I'm suprised there was anyone left in England when I remember history lessons of various religious differences, when at one time the Roman Catholics were in fear of their lives and at other times Protestants were afraid to disclose their affiliation in case they too were put on the rack and/or hung, drawn and quartered.   Then there was the English Civil War when the roundheads led by Oliver Cromwell, went round the UK killing off anyone who supported the King.

The last sentence has reminded me:  When my late OH was posted to Lincolnshire in 1964 we lived in an  old manor house which had been divided up into three separate quarters.         From the main upstairs bedroom there were three steps up to a laundry room.  One evening OH was in the bathroom and I was reading in  the bedroom when I looked up into the dividing room and saw four men (ghosts) - one man facing the other three and seemngly giving instructions  - all of them were wearing  old fashioned armour and helmets.    Years later I surfed online to see who had owned the place and found that a royalist had owned the original house, which explained why the roundheads were searching for something.   

[ThrelfallYorky]

Oooh! I hope you told them firmly that you did not believe in them!! Many years ago, a rather frightened child after too much late night television, asked me what I would do if I met a ghost... I replied, "it depends if we had been introduced...."
My grandmother was into spiritualism at one time, some relationship via marriage with Helen Duncan, and her ilk, but I really can't say I think "the departed" would want to hang around repeating their own life events. TY

[trish1120]

Just downloaded Will Young episode so will watch later.

As I do it that way I have the ability to pause and look properly at Tree of family lines/connections they are following.

Hard to figure it out sometimes otherwise.

Closest I've got to anyone famous is Iris Murdoch my second cousin.
Have her Grandparents NZ M/C.

[Rena]

Oooh! I hope you told them firmly that you did not believe in them!! Many years ago, a rather frightened child after too much late night television, asked me what I would do if I met a ghost... I replied, "it depends if we had been introduced...."
My grandmother was into spiritualism at one time, some relationship via marriage with Helen Duncan, and her ilk, but I really can't say I think "the departed" would want to hang around repeating their own life events. TY

Well, well, well -  and ooo-er !!!   I typed a response to your posting and low and behold the keyboard spacebar siezed up and I had to get my son to get the darned thing to work again.  Of course, my typed response has vanished into the computer's invisible bin - so this is my 2nd try......

 I remember my dad saying he had to accompany his mother to several public seances as she tried to contact her dead husband (who died when my dad was 16 yrs old) .  He believed that conversations by women in the queues to these meetings were used by the medium on the stage.   My mother always said "When you're dead, you're dead". 

The town of York in England is famous for sightings of Roman soldiers.  I remember in the days of black and white TV there were reports on the news and in the newspapers of a policeman and a sixteen year old boy who, at different times, had seen a Roman Legion (soldiers) marching through a cellar but there were no legs below the knees.  I've just surfed  to find an article and found a few videos and other comments.  Apparently archeologists have discovered that the ground in York is higher than it used to be in Roman times, which explained why they and their horses were walking on a ground at a lower levell.

.... and the different floor levels in the old manor house in Sleaford, near RAF Cranwell, where we lived, probably explained why I could only "see" the top half of the Parliament Roundhead soldiers.

AI just found this for me :-

 "During the English Civil War (1642-1651), Sleaford, Lincolnshire, was a place where both royalist and Parliamentarian sympathies existed. While some families actively supported the monarchy, others sided with Parliament. The Hussey family, who owned the manor of Old Sleaford, were a prominent royalist family, with Sir John Hussey being executed for treason in the Lincolnshire Rising"

[Rena]

Just downloaded Will Young episode so will watch later.

As I do it that way I have the ability to pause and look properly at Tree of family lines/connections they are following.

Hard to figure it out sometimes otherwise.

Closest I've got to anyone famous is Iris Murdoch my second cousin.
Have her Grandparents NZ M/C.

I just view the programmes as light relief but sometimes there's been a hint of something or somewhere that I hadn't thought of when researching my own family.