Who Do You Think You Are - Clare Balding 20th Jul

[Ann from Sussex]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

This is Gerald's parents and siblings on the 1911 census:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...nSearchResults

Keyham Hall, Leicester (sixteen rooms)
Albert Charles Balding Head 34 married Horse Dealer New Cross, London
Florence Mabel Balding Wife 31 married 10 years, 5 children, 4 living, 1 died, Hendon, Middlesex
John Barnard Balding Son 4 East Langton, Leicestershire
Ivor Godfrey Balding Son 2 East Langton, Leicestershire
Humphrey Quinton Son 1 East Langton, Leicestershire
plus 2 servants.

So, pretty wealthy, though not compared to the Hoagland family!

Not quite what springs to mind when you hear "horse dealer"!

[anne fraser]

I read Claire's autobiography as well which is suprisingly well written. She does seem to be more interested in the pedigree of her horses than her family. I was given some family history which someone had worked out from a dog stud book so it might not be that unusual. I imagine the family all own copies of Burke's peerage so that part would have been easy enough.

I enjoyed the episode and was quite suprised to find it led back to the early Dutch settlers in New York which I think is a first for the series. I liked her enthusiasm.

[Ann from Sussex]

The Dutch settler connection interested me too as I also have them in my tree, thanks to my gt. gt. grandmother's family. Mine don't go back quite as far as Clare's - only to the early 1700s and to New Jersey, not New Amsterdam but they did eventually fetch up in Manhattan. Clare had an American grandmother, I had an American grandfather and I think that both of us, through our early settler connections (I also have early German settlers in my direct line) are more "American" in our ancestry than most present day Americans!

[Anstey Nomad]

Clare's wife is actually Alice Arnold

[kiterunner]

Thanks, AN.