Danny is off to meet his father Tony Dyer to find out about his paternal line
East Londoners proper geezer, Danny Dyer old school that's us yeah
love your pizza
they push that one like we're at school selfie he's meeting his dad for a pint
in an East End Pub to see what he knows about his ancestors who is that young
man look what's up what popular sit down you got one limb good well you see Carl
what will be all mystery
what are several look at some of these smudges that one I remember well because
we're that up on our wall you've one thing your mother did get
white is you've got beautiful looking kids in you miss it
got some Moria yeah 7.0 everybody's dog man and granddad at me so they're the
only old man look there's meaning in any choice go ahead John
with nanny and what was her parents like know my memory grand ed not mean end
because obviously died he died of her a kidney failure they're all Lucia she
meant winner a mother-daughter that no one years old knowing ya never know it
never know huh the Grenadiers and aren't you still at what we mother up that was
silver was it she's beautiful no silver it up absolutely stunning
but maybe am she loves no way she looks like sinks with a right hand I don't
like yeah this is strong face fascinating about this she's
great-great-grandmother it's a great night bright man I've quite quite quite
grandmother on the back look I'd say 51 say I love all this I love all this a
year ago son wanted he'd seen 51 whole face when I wait we are an open-air
butter butter him the aren't still said they've done the work cast any Moreland
him to they run to work ass that's what sold so anything going past Albert and
al got no no further you don't go no further in it yeah yeah
this just this just seems to be the world all gonna be going down yeah I'll
put an in butter butter them ice near either Moreland
Danny's learnt that his paternal grandmother Joyce whose mother Marianne
Wallace died young was brought up by her grandmother Mary Ann but Avant Danny
knows nothing about the butter van family except that his father Tony has
told him Albert and Ann his great-great-great grandparents ran a
workhouse in London's East End
for me that to tell me about me man losing her mom and knowing you know it's
freaking me out out a little bit I didn't expect that you know I feel free
I'm also intrigued about the fact that an an Albert butter van ran a workhouse
there must have been a real tough gig that one I think want to learn a little
bit more about and see what it takes me Danny's going to the Tower Hamlets
archive to meet professor David Greene who studied the records of the Mile End
workhouse so professor green a good night : I'm Matt oh great
Corey now this is a picture of Miriam who's my two times great-grandmother who
is the daughter of and battle van and this is Albert but event so I like that
these to run a workhouse as far as on honking I'm going to show you something
from workouts records just have a look so I'd seen 78 yeah 1878 December the
second and there is an but event so there's and so res Marianne who was born
in 1877 so just a few months before they were admitted into the workhouse she's
in there the mother with a very very young baby Marianne entering the
workhouse as a pauper as a pauper as a pauper
so she was so she didn't run the workhouse she's just in it that's right
when you stop David has scoured the Mile End workhouse records and compiled a
list of all the butter burnt family admissions Albert all I'm seeing here
really is obviously Marianne and Eliza Emma which is obviously adult was yeah
that's right no Albert now Albert knocking about it's
all I think any comes in or do i okay they don't just go in once they go in
often that's a kind of three-year period between 1878 and 1881 down here and
they're just in and out the whole time usually without Albert and he may be
trying to find work outside this wood been the poorest time of their life
because they had three young daughters at least because we see their names here
and he was the only breadwinner it's over death really starved to death few
kids especially if you got a baby they've got no choice of that they
commit no crime I wasn't being poor that's their crime
he's having no money so these are the bare bones of the world you know like in
the workhouse but you get a really great feel if you could see the buildings the
Mile End hospital next door still uses the old workhouse buildings where
Danny's great-great grandmother spent most of her childhood she's incredibly
rare to see these buildings still still standing and you're your relative Marian
button which was a baby this is where she would have been that's the front
overhunting see she not changed very much well that looks quite grand yeah
you know it's a hellhole so Marianne but even very little
education no connections so coming out of the workhouse I don't know where your
story is going to go from here but too often these people fell foul a little
you know it might be a really good idea perhaps to look at the police records to
see if they picked her up yeah it's a strange feeling to think that a sexual
building Marianne and an Albert actually not too bad
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