Danny Discovers Dark Family Secret | Who Do You Think You Are

Whilst looking at his great grandmothers past, Danny discovers how a pregnancy ended with a criminal record.

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[tachiebillano]

Danny Dyer’s deep “rabbit hole” exploration of his ancestry is probably the best case ever covered by this series. Started out with the woes of his dirt-poor immediate ancestors... and suddenly finding he’s the direct descendant of kings.

[billbillson]

When she revealed that Mary Anne delivered all of the babies in the family I burst into tears. This is by far the most powerful one of these I’ve seen

[jitaamesuluma]

i feel for her, just a kid, and in shock at the birth then because she had no one with her she made a mistake and cut the cord wrongly and she died, she was very young and was not married, so shameful then, its hard to think what she went through

[Angie_]

Talk about turning an absolute trauma into a blessing for so many families. Maryanne took a horrible experience and used it to help many others.

[SARGENTOA]

This bit actually got me. He sounds quite authentic when he says I want to love these people. I don't want to find out these things.

[Sinderlocke]

The historian was very sweet explaining things to Danny, bless his heart ❤️

[KayosHybrid]

Tearing up listening to Danny realising that the poor young woman may have not knowing how to deliver her own baby, or how to care for them immediately after birth. How tragic and horrible a person to experience, and him to really willingly grasp that. Absolutely breathtaking.

[crystalgraves]

Oh my god- made me tear up when they talked about her helping the other women and never touching the cord. She didn’t want any other woman to be alone during that ever. God, how heartbreaking.

[brittanywetherill]

I feel like, as a woman, I imediatly understood what she was charged with and why, while he took awhile to get there, and his first thoughts were that she may have killed the child. I'm not blaming him, or saying that isn't a possibility, but I think it might say something about how boys are raised and women are raised, as to what thoughts pop up first when you read that criminal record.

[AGM-tsbb]

A lot of servant women were impregnated by their employers or their employers families.
She probably made sure to learn how to properly deliver a baby because of this tragedy.

[JeevesReturns]

Digging into family past can be pretty painful. Ignorance can truly be bliss... unfortunately.

[pumpkinlyd]

'I cant read it! Its driving me mad!' Me studying history at uni for 3 years.

[ritajohnson]

My Grandma said, "When you look into your family history, everyone is gonna find a few horse thieves." 😘

[Victoria-hylj]

"I don't wanna be a celebrity" That woman is just darling, I immediately want to have tea with her.

[gentleeyes]

Absolutely heart breaking for this young woman. I am glad he didn't laugh it off like some of the others who find out this stuff in their ancestry.

[deedeewinfrey]

He has inherited her pain you can see it on his face.

[MrTwotimess]

I love the aunt! Great old lady with a sense of humour.

[lucyk]

I try to take a lot of what I find when looking at ancestors with a huge helping of salt. I don't know what perils they were living through or if the report is necessarily true. The shame of being an unwed mother and a teenager had to be scary.

[michaeldukes]

Man, the family resemblance is strong.

[thomassnyder]

We always forget what hard lives that are Ancestors lived just to survive, wars, plagues and famine and just living of the land to make it, one interesting fact when you get to your 8th great Grandparents your 256 line of family to follow, and they will take take you all over the world