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I love WDYTYA .There has been the odd one thats been a bit off. I remember Robert Lindseys story. He found a relative that had died and no one really knew much about him and it turned out the date he died was Roberts birthday with about 100 years inbetween. Funny things family trees .
The things you find out the relatives must be spinning in their graves lol |
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Amanda Holden tonight. Hope she doesn't keep giggling throughout the whole thing like she usually does.
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"Amanda Louise Holden was born in Portsmouth on the 16th February 1971. She has always heard stories about rumoured French ancestry on her mum's side as her middle name is Louise and there were lots of generations called Louis"
Just like, for example, almost every girl of that generation. It's the middle name of my girlfriend, born in 1974, and my cousin, born a year earlier, and about 85% of girls in my year at school. Nothing to do with being French! |
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He seems to have turned into a caricature of himself. I wonder if he walks around with that silly walk and talks like that to everyone off camera.
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"Amanda Louise Holden was born in Portsmouth on the 16th February 1971. She has always heard stories about rumoured French ancestry on her mum's side as her middle name is Louise and there were lots of generations called Louis"
Just like, for example, almost every girl of that generation. It's the middle name of my girlfriend, born in 1974, and my cousin, born a year earlier, and about 85% of girls in my year at school. Nothing to do with being French! "Family stories" are often wrong but there is also often an element of truth in them. |
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She has a pronounced trout pout.
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She has a pronounced trout pout.
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"Amanda Louise Holden was born in Portsmouth on the 16th February 1971. She has always heard stories about rumoured French ancestry on her mum's side as her middle name is Louise and there were lots of generations called Louis"
Just like, for example, almost every girl of that generation. It's the middle name of my girlfriend, born in 1974, and my cousin, born a year earlier, and about 85% of girls in my year at school. Nothing to do with being French! ![]() Quote:
But she says there were lots of generations using the name though it has long been a common girl's name. Louis is less common for boys. It might just that someone was named after one of the Royal family in the 19th Century but there can be a reason behind a name being used, one branch of my family continue to use my 2x Great Grandmother's maiden name as a first name because of someone who used the name in late 1820s.
"Family stories" are often wrong but there is also often an element of truth in them. ![]() I was watching WDYTYA last night and it did rather get away from Lesley's family line, by researching what happened to a couple of orphans who had temprorarily lodged with her great great grandfather, but it was very interesting nevertheless, and eye opening on what information is out there. |
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She has a pronounced trout pout.
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I've seen worse, it's not too awful.
She doesn't look 45 anyway (well, she probably does, because what does '45' look like?).. |
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Yes, Louise became the 2nd name of choice around 1974 (for the girls, anyway)
![]() I discovered this custom whilst researching my ancestry, most unfortunate for some when the maiden name was a bit innapropriate for the chosen son being called 'Flowers'. ![]() I was watching WDYTYA last night and it did rather get away from Lesley's family line, by researching what happened to a couple of orphans who had temprorarily lodged with her great great grandfather, but it was very interesting nevertheless, and eye opening on what information is out there. |
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Does anyone know when the Cheryl Cole epsisode is airing? Want to avoid it like I did with trout pouts episode
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Does anyone know when the Cheryl Cole epsisode is airing? Want to avoid it like I did with trout pouts episode
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Does anyone know when the Cheryl Cole epsisode is airing? Want to avoid it like I did with trout pouts episode
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Does anyone know when the Cheryl Cole epsisode is airing? Want to avoid it like I did with trout pouts episode
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How dare you call her Cheryl Cole! she is much too important & wonderful to have a surname like common (non super-star) people do.
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You missed a really interesting programme, much better than last week.
Last week's was far better, more entertaining too. I mean who'd have thought that 'Uber Cockney Geezer' Danny Dyer was related to a Cromwell, one of Henry's inner circle ?? ![]() Tonight's episode was a nauseating display of smugness. |
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You missed a really interesting programme, much better than last week.
To be fair I thought last weeks was really good but we all have our own opinions I suppose? |
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It is not uncommon to use a single name in the world of entertainment just in case you have not noticed - Boneo, String, Madonna and many others.
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Last night's programme showed a common weakness out of the series. A lot was made of her ancestor being shown as 50 in the 1841 Census so he would have been 15 at an earlier event but other records showed he was actually 17. But the 1841 Census rounds off ages. No one corrected her about this so she was convinced he had earlier said he was older than he actually was (not uncommon of course).
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Gor bloimey gavna give a geeza a brike eez ownly doin the lirmbef wowk .
1 out of 10, must try harder; bloimey? gavna? brike? lirmbef? wowk? You're 'avin' a Turkish, surely? Quote:
Does anyone know when the Cheryl Cole epsisode is airing? Want to avoid it like I did with trout pouts episode
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So much press for "Cheryl's" episode as if she is the star of this series. Ian McKellen is clearly a much bigger deal.
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Last night's programme showed a common weakness out of the series. A lot was made of her ancestor being shown as 50 in the 1841 Census so he would have been 15 at an earlier event but other records showed he was actually 17. But the 1841 Census rounds off ages. No one corrected her about this so she was convinced he had earlier said he was older than he actually was (not uncommon of course).
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So much press for "Cheryl's" episode as if she is the star of this series. Ian McKellen is clearly a much bigger deal.
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I thought that too. His age would have been rounded down to the nearest five so he would have been anywhere between 50 and 54 in 1841.
Probably the BBC trying to draw in younger viewers who know her from the X-Factor. By the way, "More or Less" is just analysing the number of descendants of Edward III. |
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So much press for "Cheryl's" episode as if she is the star of this series. Ian McKellen is clearly a much bigger deal.
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