WDYTYA - tiny gripe

[katerimmer]

A few months ago I was contacted by a WDYTYA researcher, who had found me via RootsChat.  She wouldn't say who she was researching, but I gave her the records I had and she kindly informed me later that they appeared to be correct!  I'm now waiting to see if I am connected to some "celebrity" in the next series.  Trouble is, I shall have to record the whole series, as I don't know who to look out for.

Could it have been last night's episode, since there was mention of a Feary from Huntingdonshire?

[JAKnighton]

I read a tiny piece in a newspaper recently by an eminent research geneticist who said that DNA testing to 'prove' anything about ancestry was a complete waste of time.  (No, sorry, I can't remember the name of the authority).  All the DNA companies must be laughing all the way to the bank, I suspect.

Melbell

I imagine that researcher had their words misrepresented or was speaking very broadly. One of the first things I did after getting my DNA results was connect one woman's ancestor as a previously undiscovered brother of one of my own Irish ancestors.

Perhaps they were referring to ethnicity estimates which are indeed mostly fluff.

[StanleysChesterton]

Could it have been last night's episode, since there was mention of a Feary from Huntingdonshire?

It was.
Gillg was after Thomasina of Warboys - Thomasina was the first-born illegitimate child of Elizabeth, who was the mother of the Louise Voss in last night's episode.  Elizabeth had her child, then married Richard.  Elizabeth & Richard had a few children, one of whom was the Louise, the main focus of last night's episode.

[Gillg]

Oh, no!  And I missed it!  And I did ask the researcher to let me know when it was coming on, too! Must try and find it on iPlayer/Catchup or whatever.  Thomasin (Lawson) wasn't actually from Warboys, but from Eynesbury and she was married to John Fairey/Fairy/Feary/Farey, etc. of Easton, Hunts., so her mother was Elizabeth Lawson, who later married Richard Voss.  Elizabeth became the mother of naughty Louisa Voss - it will be interesting to see how much of her naughtiness was revealed in the programme.  I suspect that the father of her illegitimate child was also a Farey, but from a different Warboys family and as far as I know not related to my Faireys.

[jan57]

Oh, no!  And I missed it!  And I did ask the researcher to let me know when it was coming on, too! Must try and find it on iPlayer/Catchup or whatever.  Thomasin (Lawson) wasn't actually from Warboys, but from Eynesbury and she was married to John Fairey/Fairy/Feary/Farey, etc. of Easton, Hunts., so her mother was Elizabeth Lawson, who later married Richard Voss.  Elizabeth became the mother of naughty Louisa Voss - it will be interesting to see how much of her naughtiness was revealed in the programme.  I suspect that the father of her illegitimate child was also a Farey, but from a different Warboys family and as far as I know not related to my Faireys.

The show is repeated tonight at 11.45pm on BBC 1

[LizzieW]

They did seem to reveal quite a lot of her naughtiness, whether you know more though you can let us know when you've recorded/watched the programme that's on late tonight, or on iplayer.

I enjoyed last night's programme, Johnny Peacock appeared very interested and didn't blub once, until the very end, even then it wasn't really blubbing.  I think he was hoping Louisa Voss would have died of old age after her hard life and when he found out she hadn't, his eyes started watering.

[Gillg]

Finally managed to watch the programme and was a little disappointed to see that my Thomasin, half-sister of Louisa, wasn't mentioned.  I had supplied a lot of information to the researcher, taking Louisa's family back another two or three generations, but that wasn't used, and I guess Louisa was more interesting, especially as there was a good trail of records for her and her children.

[LizzieW]

They used to show the parts of the recordings that they didn't have time to fit into the main programme on the WDYTYA magazine website, but I can't see anything for this series.  Perhaps they don't do it for a couple or so weeks after the final programme - which was this one.

[Gillg]

I'll keep my open for that.  Thanks, Lizzie.