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Barbara Windsor
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Celebrities trace their ancestry. Barbara Windsor traces her maternal grandfather to the East London docks and finds that she's related to the artist Constable.
Series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past. Barbara Windsor traces her maternal grandfather to the East London docks and finds that his mother was a matchgirl at the Bryant and May factory. Barbara's father's family has generations of Cockneys, mostly labourers or costermongers and barrow boys. She discovers that her mother's ancestors were Irish, leaving Cork after the potato famine, and that she's related to the artist Constable.
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Tue 22 Dec 2009
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- Wed 6 Sep 2006 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Wales & Scotland only
- Mon 9 Oct 2006 00:55Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One South, Wales & Scotland only
- Sun 23 Dec 2007 11:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two England, Wales, Wales (Analogue) & Scotland only
- Thu 10 Apr 2008 21:00
- Tue 22 Dec 2009 11:25Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland, England, Wales & Scotland only
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