Who Do You Think You Are - Gary Lineker 21st Aug

[Shona]

Fine by me to pass on the Pratt details.

[marquette]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

I found this interesting and was pleased when Gary started to take it more seriously as I had been shouting at him.

After she was widowed, OH's great-grandmother, Emily Newton, was a matron at Christ's Hospital. She is living there on the 1901 and 1911 censuses.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...871792&recoff=

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&rhSource=7814

I was very interested to hear there was an archives at the school. I tried contacting them once for details of her time there but I got no reply. I shall have to try again.

I would be interested if you have any luck - some of my ggg uncles attended Christs Hospital as students.

[ElizabethHerts]

Marquette, I'll let you know if I get a reply.

[Shona]

Pupil records (unless more recent) are held at the London Metropolitan Archive.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/thing...at-schools.pdf

[Piwacket]

Originally Posted by Shona

Fine by me to pass on the Pratt details.

Thanks Shona

[Merry]

I just got round to watching this on iPlayer.

I thought it was OK. Could have done with less Gary (didn't mind some of his quips, but there were way too many!) and less seeing him in the TV studio etc and more on the framework knitters.

Plus, I would have liked three minutes on what sort of lifestyle Thomas Billingham may have had as a successful law writer compared with his likely lifestyle had remained a gardener's son in Kent.

I can't face Nick Hewer as well this evening, so will leave his programme for another day!!