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Looks as if the Liddell family were Scottish. John and Mary were in Auchenleck in Ayrshire in 1881 and 1891. John and the children were in Dalton in Furness in 1901 - his status was married. Ditto 1911 - all children born in Auchenleck. John died in 1932 (at Bleak House) - probate to one of his sons who was a poultry farmer.
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And them coming up with the story of him being reconciled with his Liddell relatives when he "came home from the war with his medals" (as I understand it, the medals were issued a few years after the end of the war?) And the way they explained him joining the army in 1915 as being because he couldn't easily get a job having been in the workhouse - lots of men from all walks of life joined the army in 1915. Anyway, he could have got to know his Liddell relatives at any time of his life really for all they know. But I'm glad they found his will to show that he did know the Liddells, otherwise they might have made up a whole story of how he never knew any of his half-siblings. |
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I did feel that they made rather a lot of assumptions, but then again I suppose we all do at times.
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Makes for 'good' television though
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Here is an article by BTB where she says that she found out her mother was illegitimate in 2004:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...workhouse.html I can't find the ones that I read but I know that in one of them, she said that many years ago, when she was promoting one of her bestselling books she went on a book tour to Australia and because she knew that some of her mother's siblings had emigrated to Australia, she made a big thing of it in her interviews over there in the hope that they, or their children, would get in touch with her, and because she didn't hear from anyone, she took it that they weren't interested. But it does seem that she didn't know how they came to emigrate until the making of this tv series. |
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