Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker investigates family mystery: Where's Walter? | WDYTYA UK

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Doctor Who and Broadchurch actor Jodie Whittaker investigates her family history. On her dad’s side, she looks into a romantic story she has been told about how her beloved grandmother Greta came to be given the middle name Verdun - also the name of a First World War battle fought shortly before Greta was born. The truth Jodie uncovers about Greta’s eldest brother’s sacrifice in that war is far more poignant than the family myth. On her mum’s side, Jodie gets to the bottom of how her great-great-grandfather worked his way up from child labourer in a Yorkshire coal mine to mine owner, and how his sons kept the family’s mines open during the biggest miners’ strikes of the 1920s.

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This is almost exactly the same as one of my family stories. My dad's grandfather was born illegitimate with no father on the birth certificate. The year prior his mother had also been working as a servant in the home of a married man, who happened to have the same first name as her illegitimate son. Unlike Jodie though I've been able to confirm the theory through Ancestry DNA.

phoenixfriend

I am 53, and I was abandonned at birth because I was an illetimate child, so I don't know how she could be surprised that it would have happened to Walter many years before ..it was unforgiving time for single mother .

RealSalica