Laura Linney’s Ancestor Arrived to America as a Prisoner
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- In this clip, Laura Linney discovers that her fifth great-grandfather arrived in Virginia in 1768, being listed as a passenger on a ship transporting felons from London.
#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the February 25 episode, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Laura Linney and journalists Lisa Ling and Soledad O’Brien-telling them stories of tricksters, scoundrels and outright criminals, who nevertheless laid the groundwork for their success.
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Actually her reading here is beautiful!
Hands down, one of the most talented actresses in Hollywood nowadays. She's a national treasure.
Incomparable
My maternal grandmother was from this Linney line, so I guess Laura and I are distant cousins! My cousin, who does a lot of genealogy, gave us the heads up on this episode and we all watched.
I love her laugh lol
She got that rich white woman laugh
🤣🤣
@@lucyg9829 "Ho ho ho ho ha ha ha haaa"😂
WHITE LIVE MATTER ???
Thousands and thousands of english women and men, were sold as slaves, on the north american human market.
They worked for a master for 10 20 30 years until the end of their sentence.
She is so adorable, I love her dimples!
Her ancestor sounds like a stand up guy. There certainly are worse crimes.
Yes he was a great guy that helped build a great Nation.
Yeah, damn harsh times back then. Geez.
Yes There are worse crime's obviously but no a thief is not a stand up guy.
@@KarmaKahn You have no idea. My ancestor was Judge Jeffrey's. He was put in charge of hunting down and punishing the people involved in the peasant uprising in the West Country. Approximately a thousand people went through his courtroom. He was nicknamed the hanging judge for the number of people he hung and also one of his favourite ways to hang people in the tide. He also burned some of the ring leaders at the stake, including the last woman to be burned at the stake by the courts in the British Isles.
One of his other punishments was sending the lesser participants of the uprising to the American colonies as 'indentured servants'. Only the harsh part is that indentured servants means they are supposed to have paperwork that has an end date for their indentured period. Jeffrey's chose not to send a bunch of these peasant with their papers, which basically means it's slavery, because there's no end date.
It was harsh enough that Jeffrey's is used today in British law schools as an example of unfair courts.
yep, you could do hard labor back then for stealing a loaf of bread.
"So he fessed up...." 😂😂😂
i own means confess, own up
She’s aging quite nicely.
WHITE LIVE MATTER ???
Thousands and thousands of english women and men, were sold as slaves, on the north american human market.
They worked for a master for 10 20 30 years until the end of their sentence
Becoming a real tailasaurus.
Laura Linney's 2nd grandfather laundered money for a drug cartel? Holy shit!!
would you like to do my story? I would be more than happy.
@@francoisbasyl1323 My mom and her brothers/sisters worked the cotton fields in the 50's to help the family eat and with a place to live. A home with no electricity and no running water.
She is so beautiful and talented, and with such a nice alto voice!
The French novel "Manon Lescaut" is about a couple of French convicts sent to Louisiana during the 18th century. This kind of stories keeps people's memory alive. I'm wondering if there is a similar novel about an English convict sent to Virginia.
I love her smile and her accent 🙂
Such class. And that laugh.
196 years after that she was born..amazing
Laura Linney is everything.
These events pre-date the First Fleet sailing to Australia by twenty years. Sydney Cove was established as a naval garrison to thwart French colonial expansion into the South Pacific, and used convicts as free labour under the control of the Marines. When the American colonies were lost, Britain simply repeated things in the southern hemisphere with some minor modifications.
America still uses convicts as free labor, which is probably why it has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Such a beautiful person inside and out. Love me some Linney
I was thinking about her role on the Truman show yesterday and here she popped up today!
That's why she is very good at Ozark, she has talent.
Guess England didn't send their best. LOL 🤣🤣🤣😆
Yeah. The Pilgrims were literally Christian Taliban. You wouldn't want to meet them.
England sent their best and the rest remained prisoners of England! the lucky ones got a free ticket, food and lodgings. and they got to escape that weird pomp and ceremony they go on with in England, blowing wind up the A's of their R/F. and the R/F were from Europe, England hasn't had a native King since the Stuarts.
@@gogogeedus oh dear you are rather angry old chap
And forgot to build a big wall
@@thelouderyouscream Not really,just telling it as it is, why would I be angry? my ancestors were on the right side of the law, but it doesn't matter how you escaped from Britain. lets face it a tiny little island full of giant egos can not be a safe place.
Convicts? For us Australians, that is considered to be the most celebrated thing to be related to. The next best thing is being related to royalty.
I loved her energy in this ❤ wonderful to see
One goal of transportation was to reduce population overcrowding in England, so many people were shipped out for very small crimes.
wow.... So in the 18th century England they already felt overpopulated. Do you recommend any book on this subject?
@@enzopotel Here's the book where I saw it mentioned that someone was exiled to Australia for the crime of stealing a scarf. This book however is is about transportation to western China as a solution to overcrowding. But many books on Australia and New Zealand should cover the topic in detail. www.amazon.com/Exile-Mid-Qing-China-Banishment-Publications/dp/0300048270
Britain wasn't overcrowded. It still isn't. It's just that most of the land is owned by a few people.
She's fantastic.
My Great Grandmother, Lydia Dugger, was called into court for having a child out of weddlock. This happened in May, 1748 in Surry County, Virginia. She had to pay a fine of 500 pounds of tobacco or fifty shillings. She was also in court for the same reason in June of 1749 and May of 1750.
Her sister Elizabeth, was in court with her in May of 1748 and June of 1749 for the same reason.
On 30 April 1762 Marmaduke of Surry County Virginia made his will. He left a cow and a calf to John Dugger, son of Lydia Dugger He does not state his relationship to John and Lydia. ( Surry Co. Virginia will book 10 page 416).
John Dugger applied for a pension on Aug 21 1832 for Revolutionary War Pension.
Wow!Thank you for sharing.
Makes sense why she fits so good in Ozark.
He didn't know then one of his descendant would be a beautiful and talented woman.
I'm waiting for OZARK S4..here in Seoul, Korea.
A great actress
I love Laura Linney.
Got a major crush on her ever since Dave..in 93. 😍
This is a nice reminder that many early white settlers in the New World were forced immigrants just like black slaves. I'm not saying white and black suffering was the same, only that being forced to leave one's homeland and families behind forever is traumatic to anyone.
Your ancestor was an SOB! Great. Thanks, Hank.
This makes it ironic how Americans belittle Australia for being a former penal colony.
I have never once seen an American belittle Australia for that
lol, we don't belittle them. We sent many american men to their deaths protecting your territories from the japanese.
I don’t know where these Americans are.... most Americans love Australians
When do Americans belittle Australia?
@@ElephantPatronus go on a discord server and have an Australian accent, been called a dumb convict by English, Irish, Scottish, welsh, Americans.
Lovely woman and great actress!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the kind of research I'd love to have the resources to do.
America is the Continent and only the Continent!!!
I am from Europe and I knew that England and France sent their prisoners to the US to populate the new American colonies. Don't they teach you your history in the United-States??
I guess they concentrate more on the "Great migration" part. I wish we Europeans did a better job though. We live in Austria, my daughter has finished the elementary school and still no teacher told her about Adolf Hitler. She is in middle school now and I don't know how to start this conversation
:-(
@@floatingsara Yes, I understand. That is in very preoccupying that they don't teach about this evil man! I think we have this problem in many countries..
S Floating I am a middle school teacher in Austria. I teach English and History. Kids normally do WWI and WWII in 8th grade, including the rise of Hitler and Nazis, concentration camps and so on.
@@floatingsara I don't think elementary school is a place to start with World War 2, kids that young can't really comprehend what happened. In Germany you don't really talk about it in school until 7th or 8th grade, at least that's how it was 20 years ago. I still think we learn more than anyone else about this time period, we had a full 2 years dedicated to it - not just in history class but also in german and religion class.
No they don't. It's mostly glamorized. Winners write the history books.
In every family there's a criminal.
Where can I see the rest? This is interesting ☺️
My name is Benjamin Woodbury.
Cecil Benjamin was murdered, his pregnant wife, Daisy, caught in a love triangle, and fled with the murderer John F. Woodbury from Napoleon, ND to Sultan, WA.
She bore twins, Charles and Clarence, and while Charles died and Clarence lived, John F. Woodbury took them as his own.
Clarence was my grandfather.
Once I was born, my mother named me Benjamin, in namesake for Cecil and the line I was truly bourne from.
Daisy never acknowledged me by name, nor John, and would merely call me, "the baby" as it eluded to their past sins.
Family history, like world history, is never really how it happened, or what you're brought up to believe.
She is so lively and gorgeous
How do I watch this if I'm in Canada?
You can't "arrive to" anywhere because it is a preposition of movement and the verb is not. This guy is a professor at a prestigious university?
How do they find this stuff?
Georgia!
That laugh, hahahhahah!
She is stunning
The Neptune to Virginia? Actor that played Doogie Houser, Neil Patrick Harris has ancestors that came over on this ship to Virginia as well.
My ex's ancestors were some of them too.
Gotta remember how bad living conditions were in England during that era of 1500 to 1800's.
It's ---- WHY ---- Cockney spoken English was developed.
A great many English and Scottish were deported by Court Order to Colonies.
If you were a convict in the Colonies, you were deported to what we call New Zealand today. But it had a much different name in the late 1700's and 1800's.
Actually no. Convicts who committed crimes in Australia were shipped to Van Diemens land (Tasmania) and on a second offence to Norfolk Island.
England transported its criminals and political dissidents, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the Revolution in 1776, when laws to transport were temporarily suspended by the Law Act 1776. Then they began to send them to Australia. And a good thing too! :)
How is that a good thing?
@@AmandaFromWisconsin
It's good because it meant that I got to be born in Australia and not the US. :)
In possession of stolen pail hoops and a rivet tool. A high crime indeed.
Love her
Me too.
Mine escaped the English as soon as they arrived in 1773 and joined up as a revolutionary in 1776.
'Mine escaped the English as soon as they arrived' - you mean your criminal ancestor went on the run from the law, and joined a murderous rebellion in order to not have to complete his sentence? Lovely, you must be proud.
so lot of virginians with english convict roots
Most Virginians will be predominantly English. Period.
What is going on here? The comments do not match the present video being showed. The comments match a video about lineage for the subject named Laura Linney. Meanwhile a video is playing regarding the Schumann resonance by Vert-Arbusto.
Teal Jade's Research Notes and Anecdotes : That was a glitch in the Matrix. It has been fixed now.
Maybe put down the bong.
That is very funny! 😅 That explains alot about America. 🤣
Welp 😅
@@trafishscott5250 ???
What if she turned the page and it turned out her ancestor was banished for rape and murder? All those smiles would have quickly disappeared lol
He stole someones livelihood...tools were custom made and very expensive in 1766. Still love you Laura☺
She COULD BE AUSSIE wow.
Arrived in not "arrived to"...
Stealing iron hoops is no joke. Every year, the Dickensian metal pail industry loses billions to theft of supplies.
ARRIVE AT; ARRIVE IN
Big deal!
... from Australia.
He was a fence
Had an old crush on Laura.
Never knew convicts were sent from here London to the USA..
They shipped convicts the American colonies for 160 years and Australia for half that time.
Laura's still hot in 2020. I loved her in many movies
It’s a wonder he didn’t wind up in Australia. Many prisoners were sent to Australia, as you probably know.
Richard Bell...Transportation to Australia did not begin until 1787! Almost 20 years after her ancestor was sent to America!
They only decided to send them to Australia because after 150 years of sending them to America those colonies were no longer available due to the Declaration of Independence. Convict transportation to America went on longer than it did in Australia.
A vivacious lusty minx will she ever age its criminal 😳
Was hoping she'd be related to Abigail Adams lol
Back then you could be transported to the colonies for stealing bread.
Always give more and more and more to those who already have more than they could ever possibly need. Hey, why not?
Jesus Christ! she is so beautiful
1768 is before Captain Cooke "discovered" Australia in 1770...
You can discover things that others have previously discovered......eg "I discovered a new restaurant.'
Is the restaurant 'new'? Probably not. Many others have been there before. But it is what we would say in the english language. Or I suppose you could say 'found', 'came/happened upon'.
@@EchoBravo370 My country, Portugal, was the first one to embark in the adventure of the Discoveries. We were the first ones to use terms like "Descobertas", "Encontros", etc., which then other countries translated to their own languages...So, there!
@@josealbinosantosnogueira6013 Your country is completely irrelevant. Go cry in a corner!🤣😂
I love her dimples
Moll Flanders is a story about the fall and rise of a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison.
From Newgate prison white convicts sent to America
Had it not been for the US independence Britain would not have colonized Australia and the county would be called Australie and speak french. Which would be difficult for me as I can't speak french. Between US independence and the first fleet to Australia the unwanted convicts were sold into slavery in the North African slave markets. Some considered it immoral to sell a white Christian into slavery to heathen black people and an alternative was found, New South Wales (ie Australia).
Immigrated legally?
What makes people think guatemalan, salvadorian, hondurian and mexican governments don't have the same practice when it comes to getting rid of felons as the XVIII century english? You see, the whole benefit of a mass migration is that you can hide wolves among the sheep. I'm an inmigrant myself, but even I recognize we need to have a reasonable inmigration law in place and benefit those who abide to the law, not the law breakers.
I always thought Britain rid itself of its worst criminals by shipping them to Australia.
After America got independence they started transporting criminals the Australia
Nope...not worse..some of those only stole chickens! You 'll enjoy reading the history
They shipped them to the America's before independence was won - 1776. Then started to send them to Australia in 1788.
@Nicky L And some of the "worst" criminals were children. One little girl transported to Australia escaped hanging because it was the sovereign's birthday and the sentence was lessened.
If you read "Manon Lescaut" novel, France did too, to Louisiana
Awwwwe ... if he'd waited with his "thievin ways" just a few more years ... she could have been an Aussie!! Lol.
You are convicted of stealing a loaf of bread! I BANISH you to the colonies!!!!
I enjoy this PBS program, but it bugs me that celebs get so much free help with their ancestry / Family Trees.
Does anyone really think that missionaries could have subdued the natives and occupied their land? Think again
If you stole a loaf of bread because you were hungry, and were caught, you'd be sentenced to transportation to the colonies. This idea of low life criminals is exagerated. Their only crime was to be poor.
You arrive "at" not to.
Travi Com pays better than the CIA hahaha
This is America.
Arrived 'in' or 'at', not 'to'
At least they weren’t sold to slave traders.
How did she not know this ?
JC JC...Do you know what your ancestors were doing in the 1760’s?
Laura linneyage
England didn't send us their best? 😁
Wait till you find out what some of the people who are crossing the southern border are like!
If your ancestors started out here in Maryland or Virginia before the 1750's, chances are they were indentured servants and most indentured servants were prisoners, a few bought their way to America by indenturing themselves. Once slavery took hold in America though there were less and less indentured servants ,as economically for plantation owners they preferred slaves as indentured servants earned their freedom. So after that they were sent to Australia. Now , most of my father's family came from Virginia, started with John Chandler in 1609 who at 9 years old was the firs British child brought to Jamestown. He was an indentured servant. I wish I knew if he was a poisoner. I suspect though since he ws so young his mother who was a widow she sold him because she was destitute. Anyway, I know he married well and became wealthy. However, even though I don't think he was a prisoner I am sure some of my other ancestors were as I have too many lines through my father going back to 1600's and early 1700's Virginia. Now my mom's ancestors started in Massachusetts. Puritans.
The ancestors of African-Americans also arrived in America as prisoners -- but they had committed no crimes.
Ancestors who were sold, as slaves, by their fellow African's. Fellow African's that also kept slave's, for themselves, from village's they had raided. As you continue to whine about history(which will change nothing), remember, every country on this earth, at one time or another, made slaves out of conquered people. The difference is, that most of the enslaved masses throughout world history didn't allow slavery to define their race, or nationality, once they were freed.
@@kibblenbits The level of distortion, misconception, and erroneous presumption in your post is staggering. The greatest enemy of wisdom is the belief that one is already wise. An intelligent, thinking person would never have written what you did.
We think our justice system is bad now lul if you stole some iron hoops for pails boom banished.
And he had that All that White Privilege!!
Lame acting rich people
It is really cool when this happens; I found out as a young adult that my earliest ancestor, a John Vaughan arrived here (Jamestown; that’s all there was) in 1619, That’s the year before the pilgrims got here by the way… He secured his passage, which he could not pay for, by indenturing himself for a pre-agreed length of time as a servant to a British officer… His trade was listed as a “knife sharpener“… Something I do all the time. We have paperwork showing his great-great-grandson applied for a pension for service in the revolutionary war. This places the arrival of my earliest ancestor around 140 years prior to this lady’s ancestor. Just to put 140 years in perspective, by my math, in 1881 the nation stood at the brink of Civil War. You poor people have had to put up with me and my kin for over 400 years now… I can’t really get my head around that kind of number.