For many of us Anne Reid is a familiar face on our TV screens. Perhaps we remember her as Valerie Barlow from
Coronation Street, or Jean in
Dinner ladies?
Or it may be from the more recent series of programmes in which she stars along side Derek Jacobi as Celia Dawson in
Last Tango in Halifax.
Acclaimed British actress Anne Reid MBE, is the next of the celebrities to feature in the Who Do You Think You Are? programmes. In her episode she discovers that her family tree features ancestors who were employed as solicitor’s clerks in Liverpool, but who came originally from Scotland. Tracing this respectable line further back in the records she comes across a Scots schoolmaster and becomes upset to find out that he ended up marooned on the other side of the world having served a sentence for fraud that saw him transported to Australia from Scotland.
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