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Old 17-09-2015, 21:39
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I see that BBC TWO Wales are about 20 to 30 seconds ahead of BBC one on showing this programme.
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Old 17-09-2015, 21:47
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My thoughts too, and I really went off her in that far too bossy and full of her opinions. She said in an interview people would not like her in this programme, she is right

Do you mean people wouldn't like her in Last Tango in Halifax or in ' Who Do you think you are ? '

She seemed to think it was funny that her ancestor was a drunkard & a fraudster . When she said she hoped the people who passed sentence on her GG Grandfather died horrible deaths, I was really shocked !

What a horrible thing to say, & what about his wife & children he left behind & the people he defrauded ? !
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Old 17-09-2015, 21:52
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My thoughts too, and I really went off her in that far too bossy and full of her opinions. She said in an interview people would not like her in this programme, she is right
She certainly is. And I'm pretty surprised she has that much self awareness; she's showing precious little in this programme.

Laughing her socks off when the teacher was making such a mess of his life, drinking and being derelict in his duties and disturbing the neighbours. That was poor form, but she compounded it by being incensed when he got transported.

And being proud of him for being involved in literacy programmes among the convicts! No irony there, is there. Oh dear me, no. Not one bit.
Maybe some of those illiterate convicts also had teachers who were drunken bums who didn't bother their arses teaching the kids in their schools. That's why being a teacher and doing it properly was so important then as now. If you leave school illiterate you have far fewer choices and options in your life.

He was an educated man who lived at the time when forgery was punishable by deportation, so he would have known that. For her to witter on now about how she could do a better forgery and his father in law was a pompous git was awful.
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Old 17-09-2015, 21:58
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Do you mean people wouldn't like her in Last Tango in Halifax or in ' Who Do you think you are ? '

She seemed to think it was funny that her ancestor was a drunkard & a fraudster . When she said she hoped the people who passed sentence on her GG Grandfather died horrible deaths, I was really shocked !

What a horrible thing to say, & what about his wife & children he left behind & the people he defrauded ? !
Sorry, didn't make it clear, she said it about WDYTYA. I was so annoyed about her attitude I couldn't finish watching it. Definitely gone off her now.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:00
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Glad it's not just me. What an attitude. Funny isn't it she's someone who I never thought would be like that. Others come across better than you expect like Jerry Hall.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:03
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Sorry, didn't make it clear, she said it about WDYTYA. I was so annoyed about her attitude I couldn't finish watching it. Definitely gone off her now.

OK thanks, good thing you didn't watch the end, she said David Husband who was John Reid's father in law, ruined his life by reporting him as a forger !

She'd got no time for David Husband who brought up John Reid's children & seemed to think her Gt Gt Grandfather was wonderful .

On top of that JR never went back to Scotland to see his family.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:05
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She is very defensive of her criminal ancestor, but that was how it was in those days

I have a ggg grandfather who was sentenced to transportation in the 1840s but he was pardoned 4 years in while still being held in the UK so therefore Im not Australian!

He stole some potatoes, the filthy wretch
I can never fathom how people on this show get so either defensive, angry or emotional about people they've never met, just because they're blood relatives.

Like even if my GGG grandfather was a murderer that wouldn't really affect me the way the celebs all seem to get so involved in it, as though its current.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:08
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Sorry, didn't make it clear, she said it about WDYTYA. I was so annoyed about her attitude I couldn't finish watching it. Definitely gone off her now.

you should have watched it to the end. Yes John had done something wrong in England but for all anyone knows the forgery he was convicted of could have been just one of many. And the place John died in was beautiful.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:15
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Amusing that the amount John Reid would have needed to get home was similar to the cash he defrauded a money-lender of.
Also funny how once he was prosecuting someone who had stolen from him, no mention of him ruining some poor criminal's life.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:28
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I enjoyed it, although I agree that Anne's reactions were unexpected. It was fascinating to learn more about transportation. I had an ancestor who was in prison in this country and probably for something minor, because he returned to his family. I'm not proud of him but it's a fact. It is interesting how the celebs react and it depends upon which ancestor they are investigating.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:35
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She certainly is. And I'm pretty surprised she has that much self awareness; she's showing precious little in this programme.

Laughing her socks off when the teacher was making such a mess of his life, drinking and being derelict in his duties and disturbing the neighbours. That was poor form, but she compounded it by being incensed when he got transported.

And being proud of him for being involved in literacy programmes among the convicts! No irony there, is there. Oh dear me, no. Not one bit.
Maybe some of those illiterate convicts also had teachers who were drunken bums who didn't bother their arses teaching the kids in their schools. That's why being a teacher and doing it properly was so important then as now. If you leave school illiterate you have far fewer choices and options in your life.

He was an educated man who lived at the time when forgery was punishable by deportation, so he would have known that. For her to witter on now about how she could do a better forgery and his father in law was a pompous git was awful.
She had some really strange inappropriate reactions to things I found. Her emotions seemed to be all over the place.
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Old 17-09-2015, 22:49
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Yes I do wonder what her opinion of John Reid would've been had his wife been her direct ancestor.
A drunken ne'er do well who did'nt provide for his family and who was constantly bailed out by his father in law.
The forgery was probably the straw that broke the camel's back as far as said father in law was concerned.
Pity she couldn't or wouldn't see the bigger picture.
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Old 17-09-2015, 23:04
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Yes I do wonder what her opinion of John Reid would've been had his wife been her direct ancestor.
Surely his wife was her direct ancestor?
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Old 17-09-2015, 23:15
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Surely his wife was her direct ancestor?
Yes I know
But she was a "Husband" and he was a "Reid"
Tis all in the name for some.
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Old 17-09-2015, 23:37
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The thing I thought was daft was when she criticised I think it was Reid's son Thomas for naming his child after his Grandfather, the man who brought him up, and said something dismissive about him not having done much with his life except name his son after the man who condemned his father. Er, that would be the (probably) alcoholic father who got himself sacked, committed a crime and condemned his own children to poverty.

Now, fair enough he suffered greatly for it himself and sort of made good for himself at least in the end, but to hold him in high esteem in comparison to Thomas seems very revisionist and odd. I think that it's because she imagines him as a lovable rogue, railing against the stuffy system but if I were a Victorian woman I think I know who I'd rather be married to.

It was one thing to admire John Reid, I can understand that in a romantic idealist sense, but to condemn the others left to pick up the pieces of his bad choices was unfair.
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Old 18-09-2015, 00:30
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The thing I thought was daft was when she criticised I think it was Reid's son Thomas for naming his child after his Grandfather, the man who brought him up, and said something dismissive about him not having done much with his life except name his son after the man who condemned his father. Er, that would be the (probably) alcoholic father who got himself sacked, committed a crime and condemned his own children to poverty.

Now, fair enough he suffered greatly for it himself and sort of made good for himself at least in the end, but to hold him in high esteem in comparison to Thomas seems very revisionist and odd. I think that it's because she imagines him as a lovable rogue, railing against the stuffy system but if I were a Victorian woman I think I know who I'd rather be married to.

It was one thing to admire John Reid, I can understand that in a romantic idealist sense, but to condemn the others left to pick up the pieces of his bad choices was unfair.
I agree I thought her values were very strange !
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Old 18-09-2015, 00:34
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She was funny having a laugh about her ancestors drunken antics and the can understand feeling sorry for him but I went right off her when she got really nasty about the people he defrauded. As the expert said, 50 years earlier he could have been hung.

As the expert said, he would have been an ex-convict if he had returned to the UK so he was best staying in Tasmania. He could presumably have written to his son.
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Old 18-09-2015, 01:27
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I'm so glad I wasn't the only one surprised/upset/annoyed by Annie's' (so sweet at that stage) reaction. I really couldn't stomach watching the end though like an earlier poster said I missed put on the story of transportation. I just found her so rude at times and I think even the researchers couldn't quite believe her attitude. Definitely not a favourite episode that I could watch again for info and enjoyment
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Old 18-09-2015, 08:42
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I can't imagine what the guy in the courtroom must have thought when those vile words came out of such a seemingly sweet lady's mouth.
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Old 18-09-2015, 08:44
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Even the people she met seemed bemused by her. She kept interrupting them at the wrong time and talked over their greetings. I found it very uncomfortable viewing.
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Old 18-09-2015, 09:09
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Even the people she met seemed bemused by her. She kept interrupting them at the wrong time and talked over their greetings. I found it very uncomfortable viewing.
She did seem an odd character, I have only seen her on Dinnerladies previously. It was almost as if she was trying to act like characters she has played on TV but she could be like that in real life.
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Old 18-09-2015, 09:29
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I enjoyed it, although I agree that Anne's reactions were unexpected. It was fascinating to learn more about transportation. I had an ancestor who was in prison in this country and probably for something minor, because he returned to his family. I'm not proud of him but it's a fact. It is interesting how the celebs react and it depends upon which ancestor they are investigating.
That was fascinating ......but Anne Reid, came over as very stupid, couldn't believe what she was saying about the victims and prosecutors of her ancestors crime.
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Old 18-09-2015, 09:30
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She had some really strange inappropriate reactions to things I found. Her emotions seemed to be all over the place.
To be fair she is 80, maybe she's going ga ga.
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Old 18-09-2015, 09:40
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I enjoyed this immensely. By far the liveliest episode of a very poor series.
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Old 18-09-2015, 11:03
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To be fair she is 80, maybe she's going ga ga.
Or she has got to an age where she doesn't give a stuff what others think of her or her views, thinking about it, it must be quite a liberating attitude to adopt.
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