Who Do You Think You Are - Nigel Havers 31st Jul

[ElizabethHerts]

This looks like the young George with his family in 1841:

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/CensusHo...23&pagetype=6#

However, it says he is born in county.

[kiterunner]

Have they ever had an episode with so many old newspaper extracts in it before?

[ElizabethHerts]

Off to bed now, I'll look in the morning to see what has been added.

[Olde Crone]

Oh, a minor point but it's niggling me.

Georgina died of scalding caused by a "white pot" which the archivist said was probably the pot they made clotted cream in. I don't think this is correct. I've lived in Cornwall for over 40 years and never heard a cream pan called a white pot, it's called a cream pan! (Wide and shallow). Also, the pot never gets above blood heat, so unlikely to cause a scald of any sort, let alone a serious one.

Wasn't one of the other sons a blacksmith? Blacksmiths were often Whitesmiths too, particularly in Cornwall and I wondered whether the white pot was in fact molten tin and the child was in the smithy perhaps?

As I said, not important really but niggly!

EDIT - Seems there are two ways to make clotted cream (news to me!) and the other way involves scalding the cream, so maybe it was correct. Still never heard of a white pot though.

OC

[kiterunner]

Also Nigel apparently assumed from the fact that the illegitimate child's name was Eleanor Couch Bryant that David Couch acknowledged her as his child and was involved with her upbringing and "must have been devastated" at her death. Maybe, maybe not.

[Olde Crone]

If he acknowledged the child as his, you wonder why her mother had to take him to court for maintenance!

OC

[Guinevere]

I enjoyed the programme, interesting to see the newspaper archives used as Kate said.

I like Nigel Havers. He seems typical of a lot of people who had never really questioned their heritage but were interested when they found things out. I wish my cousins felt the same way. *sighs loudly*

[Shona]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Also Nigel apparently assumed from the fact that the illegitimate child's name was Eleanor Couch Bryant that David Couch acknowledged her as his child and was involved with her upbringing and "must have been devastated" at her death. Maybe, maybe not.

Too much emphasis was placed on Eleanor having Couch as a middle name. Wonder what happened to Eleanor's mother?

[ElizabethHerts]

David Couch left a will:

Name: David Couch
Probate Date: 6 Sep 1871
Death Date: 17 May 1871
Death Place: Cornwall, England
Registry: Bodmin

His widow, Maria Caroline, was the sole executrix. Effects under £300.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/19...l=ReturnRecord

[ElizabethHerts]

Maria Caroline Couch also left a will:

Name: Maria Caroline Couch
Probate Date: 10 Jun 1914
Death Date: 29 Sep 1913
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: London, England

Probate was granted to Georgina Mary Jefferies, one of the daughters (not Nigel's line).

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/19...l=ReturnRecord