General Chat

Have to say: He was completely miffed was John Hurt that his family weren't from aristocracy. Blimey days, what a blow that must have been for him!

I too wish I had the spare cash to order four certs to double check. What's wrong with checking things out first? He had genealogists working with him I presume, surely they would have encouraged him to check out the details so that he could order the correct cert, let's face it peeps, it's not rocket science is it!

Natasha's the week before was excellent. I was talking about the different programmes and there have been a few exceptional ones, Bill Oddie's first one was heart wrenching, David Baddiel's was also. Looking forward to the next one whoever it is.

Lyn x

Hi

I've only just watched it & so now have my detective hat on :-)

Wonder if this is Sarah Louisa in 1901 - fits quite a bit !!

Louisa Price
Age in 1901: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Bangor, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Civil Parish: Llanelly
Ecclesiastical parish: Llanelly St Paul
Town: Llanelly
County/Island: Carmarthenshire
Country: Wales


Registration district: Llanelly
Sub-registration district: Llanelly
ED, institution, or vessel: 10
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 223
Household Members:
Name Age
Ellen Price 6
Louisa Price 40 - widow - living on relief!!

I'll leave it here so I can ponder tomorrow - off to bed now !

I am glad I am not the only one......I was also puzzled Joan by the number of children, also, did you notice they said the older boy had gone to America.....when, and how did they know? that was left in the air.....and the assumption that the mother was also feckless because her children were in some sort of reformatory......I always understood that poor houses took on folk for any reason, even those who were mentally ill, or just could not cope.....it seemed miserable to me for her to be branded like this when they did not know her circumstances.....

It would have been helpful if they had found if the people who adopted Grif's Granny had been related, as was told to them.....or had she been adopted by a couple before Sarah Louisa had applied for poor relief.....

Whatever happened, it was a very sad story for the wife and young children to be split from each other because of the death of the father....

Sally, I thought showing the other Daniel Price death cerificates was also insensitive.

Also I was sceptical of the 1901 census results of the son and daughter - GRJ took this as proof that he had the right children.

Did I miss something......when Sarah applied for Poor Relief she had THREE children. I thought she had four.

Enjoyed it though.
Joan

I wanted this one to go on and on.....I was like Liz and talking to the screen, saying 'go for the death certificate!!'......a couple of years ago I wouldn't know my backside from my elbow about any of this.....

My Scottish ancestors were Ironstone and Coal miners like his, and it was sad for me to see how they worked in cramped conditions underground and to think before the 1840's woman went down the mines too.....I had a good cry over that one....

I did wonder if anyone else would feel like me, that it was a bit insensitive to show the death certificates and means of death of other Daniel Prices, and where they lived, and then to have mentioned again how they had died by taking poison.....perhaps I think too much.....

thanks for that info Alan as I missed the first one.

Will be repeated in about 3 weeks time.

Natasha's is being repeated next Thursday about midnight.

Alan

was i the only one shouting for him to check the 1901 after he found the family in 1891????

Only last week I found a rellie working at the ironworks in Newport, so was really interested at the history and the footage there.

To be honest, the whole series has been really good this time round so far.

I noticed that too Rose,

Mind you, sometimes Iwish I had the help they get with my lot.

I missed quite a bit of it, but I like Griff (he reminds me of my brother lol) and at least it did show him actually looking at the census on his laptop which they don't usually do which might get the message across that you can 'do it yourself' without a team of BBC researchers lol

rosex.

Ah but we KNOW that because we have the experience. This is his first dabble in it and he didn't have any interest before.....at least thats what the programme would have you believe.

I have a choice of which Smith certificate to order. There are several of dates and places that could be mine.

Must have been a big shock for Griff's mother when she found her grandfather had been killed by manslaughter and not in a supposed rail crash.

I missed it!
does anybodynknow when this is repeated???

little lost

why would you need to afford 4 certs, one of them died in shoreditch he said, so what possessed him to order that one????

Yes it did Mau....it was even better for that.

How many of us recognise that feeling....'theres an answer there somewhere and now I have to find it.'?

Gryff was on earlier on Paul o grady. Couldnt hear it as grandson arrived just when he started to talk but he was saying the bbc didnt want to do the same line that he wanted to as they said that line would be boring. I think that gives the game away that their researchers actually do the research first then take them round filming it all.

oh,was it a bad one or was he happy?

Thought it was great Teresa and Griff Jones made it all the more interesting I thought by his telling the tale! lol me and Oh were in stitches.(makes a change from my usual crying)