Family secrets on BBC Radio 4

[Mart 'n' Al]

I'm just listening to a short program about this subject, and I'm sure it will be of great interest to anybody here. A similar thing happened to me when I found out that a favourite aunt was actually my father's mother. The description of the show is as follows:

"For the Victorians, privacy meant keeping people out of your business. We hear from geneticist Sir Paul Nurse who has had several family secrets kept from him. We learn the importance of secrecy within the family as he describes the revelation of these secrets."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0869tfs

Martin

[louisa maud]

Having delved into my family I have found out things no one else knew about, well didn't till I discovered it,  one being a child born, father named and shown as  dec'd on birth cert (he wasn't) only for me to discover another man was taken to court for maintenance, and she won,  his name not even on the birth cert, no DNA in those days, really don't know how she got away with it.
I suspect there are many a secret gone to the graves with the persons concerned.

Louisa Maud

[Mart 'n' Al]

I'd love to confront some of my dead ancestors about the lies that they tried to conceal. It's ironic but I almost know more about my ancestors than they did about themselves.

Martin

[brigidmac]

BBC 4 may look into the missing babies that Lottie. Roberts took from single girls and placed with respectable couples

These babies b1902-1907 would have known nothing about their origin as taken very enough to have official baptisms and even birth certificates with new couple .....
But I bet it's thrown some people comparing DNA

So they didn't necessarily lie ..just ignorant
1 baby was returned to grandparents  who brought him up ..the descendants knew nothing of this adventre" abduction/traffic/n fostering

1 generation fascinated the other shocked not wantingredients their grandmothers to be known as having had baby out of wedlock.
(I could do with some DNA  of the babiy who was lotties to see if she is indeed my great grandmother not another woman with same name ) still sleuthing ....looking for actress friends of hers whow could have had a boy at the same Time as Lottie .l906