‘MY ANCESTORS SUPPLIED SPUDS TO QUEEN VICTORIA’
Finding a successful entrepreneur in the family can be very exciting. It becomes all the more enthralling if your ancestor grew up in humble circumstances. How was social mobility possible for working-class people in Victorian times?
Jeremy Cripps from South Shields has discovered an ancestor who managed to leave the world of agricultural labour behind to become a merchant who supplied the highest echelons of society.
MY BRICK WALL
My mother Beryl told me intriguing stories about her great grandfather John Malin. He came
