Author Topic: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #6 Lulu  (Read 7448 times)

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Re: WDYTYA-LULU
« Reply #9 on: Friday 18 August 17 07:48 BST (UK) »
They didn't look at many people Annie but it was quite a story. I think it really illustrated well that genealogy is about more than just getting their names and showed different ways you could potentially find out about our ancestors lives.

Although I did laugh when they said "between the wars marches could be a flash point for fights", was thinking just between the wars?
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« Reply #10 on: Friday 18 August 17 07:54 BST (UK) »
The very one I really wanted to see, I missed it, forgot about it  >:(

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« Reply #11 on: Friday 18 August 17 08:31 BST (UK) »
They didn't look at many people Annie but it was quite a story. I think it really illustrated well that genealogy is about more than just getting their names and showed different ways you could potentially find out about our ancestors lives.

Although I did laugh when they said "between the wars marches could be a flash point for fights", was thinking just between the wars?

I agree.  Not a massive fan, so I was expecting to be a bit bored, but not so, I found it really interesting. Anna

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« Reply #12 on: Friday 18 August 17 08:32 BST (UK) »

EDIT: And that of her Gt Grandmother Helen R Kennedy a leading member of the Glasgow's Ladies' Orange Lodge

It was Helen Orr Kennedy, rather than R

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« Reply #13 on: Friday 18 August 17 10:19 BST (UK) »

StevieSteve - I shall report your findings to the leading genealogy site that provided me her name  :)
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« Reply #14 on: Friday 18 August 17 10:41 BST (UK) »
I started off interested as I thought they were going to discover somebody who had been a mystery/gone missing .... but then it seems the aunts/uncles/cousins knew the story all along anyway!

So that spoilt it for me as then it became pointless/boring.

It was nice to find the grandmother was buried with the great-grandmother - and nice for her to see the stone.  But it seemed to me the family knew the story.....

I think they probably just did her story because "It's got Scotland in it .... we've not done much Scotland, or Orange stuff before have we...." so just became a tick-box diversity criteria choice.
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« Reply #15 on: Friday 18 August 17 12:21 BST (UK) »
REALLY enjoyed this one ... comes down to; don't mess with Lulu LOL.

Seeing shock on her face when she should about all the prison time must be our faces when we find such things ...

Glad she had a positive end to her search.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday 18 August 17 12:22 BST (UK) »
Thanks Claire,

Just googled Lulu...she's changed her name  ::)

Reading between the lines there wasn't much story line so I didn't miss much  ???

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Must admit Annie I was not keen on this one  ::)

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« Reply #17 on: Friday 18 August 17 18:27 BST (UK) »
I wonder what the relationship between Lulu's grandmother (Elizabeth) and great-grandmother (Helen) was - Helen came across as quite formidable, certainly very strong in her convictions with her involvement in the Orange Order.  What must she have thought of her daughter's relationship with Hugh Cairns (considering the issue of the two religions) and the life that Elizabeth had to endure with Hugh's criminal history and time spent in jail?   

After watching so many other participants of this programme crying over the lives of sometimes very distant ancestors, it was understandable that Lulu got so emotional over what had happened to her own mother.  What a pity her mother never learned what Lulu found out in her lifetime.

I have to say, though, that one aspect of the programme did make me angry - when filmed talking to camera in the taxi/car on two occasions, Lulu was not wearing a seatbelt!
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