BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 7 Episode #6: Martin Freeman

[margaret103]

A rather unsatisfactory ending - what happened to Emily the second wife. Where did she dissapear to? If the professional Researchers can't find her what hope have the likes of us got?
Also why did Robert leave Worthing?
But a very interesting programme which was quite enlightening.
Margaret

[Siamese Girl]

A rather unsatisfactory ending - what happened to Emily the second wife. Where did she dissapear to? If the professional Researchers can't find her what hope have the likes of us got?
Also why did Robert leave Worthing?
But a very interesting programme which was quite enlightening.
Margaret

I thought "that's throwing down the challenge for Rootschatters!"

Carole

[Spidermonkey]

Fascinating info about the syphilis - didn't realise it could 'work itself out'.

[lindylou2_2002]

A rather unsatisfactory ending - what happened to Emily the second wife. Where did she dissapear to? If the professional Researchers can't find her what hope have the likes of us got?
Also why did Robert leave Worthing?
But a very interesting programme which was quite enlightening.
Margaret

The syphilis thing was interesting, wonder if Richard also passed it through his other children from the earlier marrages as they said that some had died and some were unaccounted for.

Do you think they really searched for the marriage of Richard and the 3rd wife as it showed as a search on free bmd. Not going through the fiches. I do think that if people who are starting out watched and think if they cant find it on Freebmd it didn't happen, is a misleading.

[Spidermonkey]

A rather unsatisfactory ending - what happened to Emily the second wife. Where did she dissapear to? If the professional Researchers can't find her what hope have the likes of us got?
Also why did Robert leave Worthing?
But a very interesting programme which was quite enlightening.
Margaret

I thought "that's throwing down the challenge for Rootschatters!"

Carole

Is that permissable, or is it thought to be not the Done Thing?

Cos, I've just found Emily on the 1891 before she married Richard, I thought it might help to find her in 1901........

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[pjbuk007]

For me, one of the best because of the explanation and pics re 19th century congenital syphilis.

Have a death 1895 age 4/12 from congenital syphilis; current pathologists thought this unlikely but the expert from GOS revealed so much.

My saga re this was rather similar to his, so thrilled, as it explains what I thought was not possible.

[Springbok]

Really interesting, especially that she had been infected twice. Which possibly means that the father had caught it from one of his previous wives (or a caual encounter?)

I wonder if any of his  earlier children had also suffered the same fate. ( I see that possiblity has already been mentioned!) occured .
An hour wasn't enough for this search
Spring

[Viktoria]

Well it all too often didn`t! The tertiary stage often manifester itself in what was called General Paralysis of The Insane and meant sufferers were not of sound mind, it is a frightening thought that Randolph Churchill(Winston`s father ) was Foreign Secretary whilst in the tertiary stages with the  associated mental health problems .
Aristocracy and society women expected to lose their first child at least because when they married their husbands were in the active stage of the disease ,by the second child the birth was premature and the third child often survived .It was a great tragedy that many women whose husbands infected them were blamed for these losses and  their subsequent inability to conceive .The wife of Prince Rudolph( ,who committed suicide (or did he?) with his mistress at Mayerling)was unable to conceive because she was infected by him and was shunned at the Austrian court  because of that when it was not her fault -but little was understood in those days.                                                    The disease could lie "dormant" for many years and then manifest itself in later  life as G.P.I .  It really could pre peniciilin days be passed down the generations. Getting Biblical now! ! !
 We had to do a good bit of work on it in one of my jobs as we had to recognise babies born with it .  They have a different cry and the bridge of their nose is flattened, they look rather wizened and the ear shape can be pixie-like . Poor little lambs. Viktoria. now!!                                                                                                                                  

[Spidermonkey]

Perhaps the 1911 census hadn't come on line when the researchers were doing their stuff, but there is an Emily Freeman bn 1857 Petworth in East Preston district (the district Tarring comes under I think)