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Some time ago I happened to watch part of the television programme, “Who Do You Think You Are?”. It is a programme that looks into a person’s family history and often there are surprises concerning an ancestor. Sometimes there are smiles of delight and at other times tears of sadness of what an ancestor may have experienced. On this particular programme the actor Ralf Little, who has appeared on television programmes such as ‘Death in Paradise’, was finding out about his forefathers.
He had grown up with a rumour that a part-time footballer on his mother’s side had been an international player. He was delighted to find out that his mother’s grandfather, Albert Lockley, had played for Wales. It was a match against Ireland in 1898. Ralf was really pleased to find out that the rumour or family legend was actually true. He went to the club where his great grandfather had played and sat in the stand as he spoke with a local historian. Then he heard some new information about the footballer that seemed to devastate him. He made it clear how shocked and sad he was to hear that information.
