Who Do You Think You Are - John Simpson 25th Sep

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Shona

Humph.

Article from the Daily Telegraph from 2007, which covers much of what was in last night's episode.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mot...n-Simpson.html

Feel cheated!

I did feel as though I had watched a programme or read an article about this before! I'm not a Telegraph reader, but probably someone had sent me a link at the time.

[kiterunner]

Oh, so it says in that article that Lela "ran off to America to pursue a career as an actress"! Maybe that's why we haven't found her in 1891 yet?

[kiterunner]

So... the youngest "son", "Frank".

On the 1901 census he is Samuel Frank Leslie Cody, age 5, born Switzerland Basle, and on the 1911 he is S F L Cody, 14, born Switzerland. I know the birthplaces on those censuses are all lies and the ages quite suspect, so when and where was he actually born? They said on the programme that all the children were really Edward's, but they also said that he and Lela split up around 1891 so something doesn't add up.

[anne fraser]

Hmm the Telegraph seems to have found out more about the family than the BBC. I think if I had been Lizzy I would have rather lived with my grandfather than join the family shooting act. I did not think Bright's disease was actually associated with alcoholism which tends to cause liver rather than kidney damage. I did get irritated by the producers making John Simpson try everything. I wonder how they worked out that his ability to shoot straight was genetic.

I hope the next series gets back to genealogy. On a Cody web site the youngest son is said to be Lela's.

[kiterunner]

Samuel Franklyn Cody, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, killed in action 23 Jan 1917. He seems to have got married in 1913 so I'm guessing he was older than 14 in 1911. But if he was Edward's son I guess he had a completely different name at birth! Probably the information is somewhere around already though...

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by anne fraser

I hope the next series gets back to genealogy. On a Cody web site the youngest son is said to be Lela's.

All the sons were Lela's, surely? I was just trying to work out who his father was.

[anne fraser]

Sorry I meant Samuel's. Samuel's real name was Cowdery. http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/FSCowdery.html. He changed it when he claimed he was the son of Buffalo Bill who was William Coady.

Here is the grave of the Coady's at Aldershot. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=93235979

[kiterunner]

Right, I see.

Samuel jr's age at death (in 1917) is shown as 21 on the CWGC site and it says "Son of Lela M. Cody, of Vale Croft, Ash Vale, Surrey and the late aircraft pioneer, Samuel F. Cody; husband of Maude H. Cody, of 'Notre Dame', Church Road, Aldershot, Surrey." The marriage to Maude is Apr-Jun 1913.

[kiterunner]

Samuel Franklyn Cody (jr)'s service papers are available on TNA site for £3.36 but his date of birth is not shown in the description and some of the other officers' dates of births are. So I'm guessing his date of birth is not shown in the service record.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Right, I see.

Samuel jr's age at death (in 1917) is shown as 21 on the CWGC site and it says "Son of Lela M. Cody, of Vale Croft, Ash Vale, Surrey and the late aircraft pioneer, Samuel F. Cody; husband of Maude H. Cody, of 'Notre Dame', Church Road, Aldershot, Surrey." The marriage to Maude is Apr-Jun 1913.

Just been looking at that. A public tree on Ancestry names his wife as Maud Heliere Carroll.