General Chat

Just watched and was very interesting I thought... is it me being a tad irreverent to suspect that if, as was stated , approx 10% of the population a hundred years ago might have had syphillis, then a number of researchers might be scurrying with trepidation to their trees at the moment to check gaps between living children ?

If you didn't watch, sorry that will be incomprehensible lol.
And please don't think I am being unsympathetic, it just occured to me that some might find it more worrying than others.

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Have to say at the end of the programme when they showed address of where the granma was born..........I fell of the settee!.......I will have to watch prog. again,but sure it read 45,Camden Street,Tynemouth..........the house my Dad was brought up in.He was fostered there in 1913.

I too found it very interesting and if had I been Martin Freeman I would be wanting to check for anything in the present generations and doing something about it. Grand-daughter is specialist in HIV and maybe this is why I take this more seriously.

well now how abot world famous syphilitcs
1 Beethoven
2 paul gauguin
3queen elizabeth the first
4 adolf hitler
5 oscar wilde
6jonathan swift
7 monet
8 mussolini
9 john keates
10 captain James Cook
to name just a few , so check your trees people
igor

Mau, sorry I didn't notice that, how interesting though.

May Blossom, i thought that myself, but I assume that with the advent of blood tests for pregnant women it would be picked up early, and so not carried on down the line as it were.

Rose xx.

It was very interesting to hear what syphillis can do. I was unaware of the death of children but did know about blindness. I really enjoyed this episode as it was very informative.

Viv

Hi Igor :)

well none of them are in my tree ;) but since some of my ancestrs lived near the charming sounding area 'slut's hole' in Chiswick I don't think I will go looking too closely.......

Hi Rose, One would hope so, but would they really be looking for it.?

Perhaps g. daughter will be able to answer that one for us.

I bet that gave you goose pimples, Mau!

Do you know, Igor, how Queen Elizabeth 1 contracted syphillis - was it congenital from her father, her mother or indeed both of them, or was it from some lover of the "virgin" queen?

Sue x

hi rose
think that's maybe where my first girlfriend came from lol
igor

lol Ouch Igor !

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Another interesting thing about the house is, it was pulled down and the town library built on the spot, the very place I go to look at records & fiches.........life can be very weird!!

I was shaking Sue ... my poor Dad was abandoned as a child.

hi suz
father probably , or maybe that wiley old seadog Walter who i'm sure it was kept on QT.
She was in her maidenhood a stunning woman , till she had all those wooden teeth put in and suffered from aloprecia and meglomania .
Never trust a sailor or explorer
igor

I can only imagine, Mau. One of those coincidences that really can make your blood run cold, I guess.

Talk of Walter Raleigh, the wily old sea dog, brings back memories of Blackadder!!!

Sue x

Did anyone notice that, when Martin was in a car - on his way to his brother and driving to Kent - a single magpie was in the road!
Didn't know all that about syphillis - none in my family that I've found so far!!

hi every one may i join u?

On the subject of Magpies, have I mentioned that Newcastle won tonight......

Sue x

Of course, Rachael, and welcome

Sue x

Umm - may have noticed a thread about it Sue!

hi susian thank you