Kim Cattrall Dissapointed at Grandfather's Bigamy | Who Do You Think You Are?

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  • čas přidán 23. 09. 2018
  • Actress Kim Cattrell learns of her grandfathers cheating ways, as she sees records of his bigamy.
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  • @green823jade
    @green823jade Před rokem +30

    I think he just saw no future with his first wife and he was the type of person who could just walk away and not look back. It is despicable behaviour.

  • @charlottebruce979
    @charlottebruce979 Před 4 lety +157

    He could have saved for a divorce and paid for it the legitimate way then kept in touch with the girls through visiting, or even letters, sending money through the post. He was a coward and extremely cruel.

    • @parthsavyasachi9348
      @parthsavyasachi9348 Před 3 lety +8

      He should have divorced but sometimes you can't divorce if other partner doesn't sign papers etc. So hard to know what would have happened.

    • @KayEl58
      @KayEl58 Před 3 lety +15

      Very few working class people divorced in the 1930's and 40's. It was both costly and complicated. My own grandfather (coincidently also from Liverpool) simply had his wife committed to an asylum and though he didn't remarry, he had a string of live-in girlfriends. When I did some research it turned out that this wasn't as uncommon as I thought it was.

    • @satlynutz
      @satlynutz Před 3 lety +8

      Divorcing was more difficult in 1939. Alot of men did this than.

    • @TR4zest
      @TR4zest Před 2 lety +6

      @@parthsavyasachi9348 It does't allow you to be a bigamist.

    • @parthsavyasachi9348
      @parthsavyasachi9348 Před 2 lety

      @@TR4zest any relavance to what I wrote??

  • @anthonyiuculano6002
    @anthonyiuculano6002 Před rokem +20

    Her Britishness is really coming out here

  • @melmccall4850
    @melmccall4850 Před 2 lety +19

    I feel your pain. My Grandfather was also a bigamist. I met his other family after my father died. My dad would have loved brothers and sisters x

  • @thegirlinquestion
    @thegirlinquestion Před 2 lety +28

    oh i do so love KC. she is so classy and well spoken. i aspire to be like her when i’m older (and now!)

  • @janetg112
    @janetg112 Před 2 lety +26

    Just love Kim Catrell!!! One of my Favs!

  • @judis6224
    @judis6224 Před rokem +9

    Makes you wonder what else this man was hiding, to up and leave like that, he must have been in Trouble.

  • @angiecuteass
    @angiecuteass Před 4 lety +54

    My grandfather was a bigamist too at about the same period, often happened during the 2nd world war. Unfortunately my dad would never talk about him so I have family in Ireland but no information about them. She's lucky to be able to trace back!

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 2 lety +3

      My paternal grandfather had a concubine.

    • @CatLady3333
      @CatLady3333 Před 10 měsíci

      Test with Ancestry DNA, you will find answers

  • @terintiaflavius3349
    @terintiaflavius3349 Před rokem +19

    I also found a bigamist in my family while researching. He was married with kids in England and came here to America where he proceeded to marry my ancestor and have kids. He returned to England a decade later to his first family.

    • @Wareaglegirl9960
      @Wareaglegirl9960 Před rokem +1

      I wanna find my history, where do I start

    • @mscanepa
      @mscanepa Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@Wareaglegirl9960Depending on where do you start and what do you need to know about it

  • @bluesky9577
    @bluesky9577 Před 5 lety +65

    Kim is really cheesed off with this grandfather!

    • @TykusBalrog
      @TykusBalrog Před 5 lety +50

      It makes sense given what he did to her mum and her aunts

    • @charlottebruce979
      @charlottebruce979 Před 4 lety +27

      Of course he caused extreme distress and poverty and feelings of abandonment and rejection by the women in the family.

    • @derekc6445
      @derekc6445 Před 3 lety +2

      I'm currently searching my ancestry and I've found no record of any divorces even though they definitely did happen.

    • @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst
      @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst Před 11 měsíci

      As a very important philosopher by the last name Hamilton said: forgiveness..... (Actually it was that choir we didn't see but bigger picture please 😂)

  • @katewalsh7783
    @katewalsh7783 Před rokem +13

    We sure can't choose our parents or our ancestors' behaviors. My heart goes out to KC, this was obviously so painful. Wonder if his second family knows about this now- jeez :(

  • @sandracabrera1748
    @sandracabrera1748 Před rokem +5

    She finding her self im proud of her......to do this in you tube

  • @cynthiaforequity
    @cynthiaforequity Před rokem +6

    There are jerks in all our histories or futures 😮

  • @CatLovezASMR.Funny.Shorts
    @CatLovezASMR.Funny.Shorts Před 3 lety +13

    I had a uncle who did this..had 2 families..I was the one who bused him...I found him terrible for hurting his first family..convinced her to divorce him..he ended up stealing his second wifes money and took off...he was a real LOSER..and to think i was the one who found him for my dad his brother who hadnt seen him for over 30 years since they were broken up in a boys home..i regret ever finding him...dad did write a book i have the papers for that but never published it...what they went thru..anyways..i feel for kims family.but hey they are strong women for what they went thru..

  • @hollylile
    @hollylile Před 10 měsíci +3

    My Grandfather on my Daddy's side did the same thing. He left his wife and 6 children during the middle of the depression and started another family. I've been on ancestry, and I can't find any divorce records or remarriage. Yet the new woman carried his name, and they had a son who was a Jr.

  • @shafaghb
    @shafaghb Před 3 lety +46

    And they call the second wife a spinster. At 21. Poor girl. What a life.

    • @leynaripley5250
      @leynaripley5250 Před 3 lety +25

      Its not meant to be demeaning the way we think of it. That was just the name they used for the female equivalent of a bachelor - a woman who had not been married before

    • @ceciliaramoscastillo2809
      @ceciliaramoscastillo2809 Před 3 lety +4

      @@leynaripley5250 Exactly

    • @TheKayes81
      @TheKayes81 Před 3 lety +12

      Bizaare seeing this series isabella was my grandmothers aunts sister in law and seeing my great great auntie maisie on tv wow especially now shes no longer with us, lovely to have the memories of her on tv sadly under such sad circumstances for kim xx

    • @AndrewMartinIsHere
      @AndrewMartinIsHere Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheKayes81 sorry to hear that. In this brief glimpse, she seems like a lovely lady. Must have been so strange seeing this story unfold.

    • @thegirlinquestion
      @thegirlinquestion Před 2 lety +4

      @@leynaripley5250 of COURSE it is meant to be demeaning. jfc

  • @kimvenezia6903
    @kimvenezia6903 Před rokem +5

    I have the identical story with my biological father.

  • @katarzynamuszynska5426
    @katarzynamuszynska5426 Před rokem +7

    Do you think that happened only 100 years ago?
    No
    There is men having kids and leaving woman behind and sometimes women leaving children as well .. its not only men who do that !

  • @CatLady3333
    @CatLady3333 Před 10 měsíci +1

    My grandmother was a bigamist, and so was her sister!

  • @sarcasticallyrearranged
    @sarcasticallyrearranged Před rokem +5

    I wish that the videos were labeled since I started at the end apparently.

  • @eaccristo
    @eaccristo Před 2 lety +26

    My grandfather also. What a piece he was. He left his freckles and ginger hair for many generations. Left for a pack of cigarettes. Took their bank account and left her with 5 children under the age of ten.

  • @gloriadodds7102
    @gloriadodds7102 Před 2 lety +18

    embarassing but we're not responsibile for our ancestors.

  • @grayb7420
    @grayb7420 Před 2 lety +19

    Kim’s dad reminds me of my father who is also British. What he said was law despite the fact he was a lazy momma’s boy. He and my mom had 10 kids and as a younger child I never remember him working. My mother supported us all waitressing. Needless to say I don’t have the fondest thoughts of him but a great deal of respect for my mother.

    • @sarcasticallyrearranged
      @sarcasticallyrearranged Před rokem +4

      Crazy that men are assumed to know best and layabout while the women do everything all because he’s male.

    • @wandertree
      @wandertree Před rokem +1

      @@sarcasticallyrearranged There are these cases, but there are also cases of terrible, abusive women who do nothing but damage the people around them. Stop trying to paint all men with the same brush. It's shameful.

    • @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst
      @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst Před 11 měsíci +1

      My husband was raised like that tee hee..... His momma does his laundry.... Good! Jennifer Lopez said it right: # I ain't doing your laundry, I ain't your momma

  • @giftedplanksify
    @giftedplanksify Před rokem +4

    Kim is pretty down to earth. The British saved my dad from death when he was torpedoed by Nazis and was a hit with the women in Liverpool even before The Beatles. They called him Clark because of his mustache lol thanks 😊 🎉

  • @rmwhite9425
    @rmwhite9425 Před 10 měsíci +1

    He got out of “Dodge”, because he didn’t want them finding him.

  • @yayuso
    @yayuso Před rokem +3

    Mi grandfather esa a bigamist to.

  • @lazaruschernik18
    @lazaruschernik18 Před 3 lety +14

    Why aren't these in order?

    • @sarcasticallyrearranged
      @sarcasticallyrearranged Před rokem

      You’d think that they would at least label the clips.
      I realized afterwards that I had watched the last two parts before I found the first video.

  • @connectingthedots100
    @connectingthedots100 Před rokem +6

    Grandfather is a narcissist.

  • @michmerry
    @michmerry Před 5 lety +8

    wow

  • @grahamepigney8565
    @grahamepigney8565 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Based on my experience of family research startng looking for children before the date of marriage is a good idea.
    Did they check the 1939 Register which is the most complete civilian census taken in the UK between 1921 and 1951 (most of the 1931 census was destroyed during WWII and there was no census in 1941) and was used to issue identity and ration cards.

  • @nikkistarr8
    @nikkistarr8 Před 10 měsíci

    Wow I'm from county Durham 😮

  • @marthamcanally3422
    @marthamcanally3422 Před rokem +2

    I’am sure it was very common forMan to do that, my Husband Grandfather , it supposed to died in Battlefield, but in Reality , it was in Texas, just move like Few Miles !!!!! so it was a little sad for them to know the truth 😊

  • @genthorpeee
    @genthorpeee Před 5 lety +7

    You spelt her last name wrong

  • @maga6252
    @maga6252 Před 2 lety +6

    I'm sure people at this time also just shacked up together without getting legally married. The advantage of that would be you wouldn't be prosecuted for cohabitation and having children out of wedlock. Just a thought.

  • @teebee5326
    @teebee5326 Před 3 lety +6

    Aaaannnd scene!

  • @eaccristo
    @eaccristo Před 2 lety +11

    I wonder if he knocked up this young girl and chose the younger new girl. Maybe that’s why he wanted his older daughter to come with him when he left. To be a babysitter/ slave to the new wife. They say SHE wasn’t aware of the girls. But I think she knew.

    • @leynaripley5250
      @leynaripley5250 Před rokem +1

      Going by the age of their oldest child it was a very real possibility she was pregnant when they married

    • @pixiejemm
      @pixiejemm Před rokem +2

      It would make sense how quickly he left his wife for Bella and remarried. If his wife had found out he had got another women pregnant that would mean he would have had 4 children to provide for which he didn't want to do. Also the fact that his wife has 3 girls, he probably hoped Bella had a boy so that's why he was so quick to marry again.

  • @Zoldidi
    @Zoldidi Před 3 lety +15

    Nobody wondering why a 21 year old was classified as a 'spinster'?

    • @leynaripley5250
      @leynaripley5250 Před 3 lety +14

      Its what they use in reference for a woman who had been unmarried before, not the negative connotation we attribute to it now (like we call an unmarried man a bachelor)

    • @KayEl58
      @KayEl58 Před 3 lety +18

      The female version of batchelor. I got married in 1988 and I'm listed as 'spinster' on my marriage certificate. What else could she have been called?

    • @vivavoice7211
      @vivavoice7211 Před 2 lety +1

      Bad old ignorant days. No wonder women married idiots and narcissists. The pressure and shame of being unmarried was very stigmatising,

    • @sarcasticallyrearranged
      @sarcasticallyrearranged Před rokem +3

      She could’ve simply been called “single woman?”
      Spinster was used in a demeaning manner for a reason.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před rokem

      Why would we be wondering why an unmarried woman was called a spinster, sweetie? That word is still used on many legal documents.
      Please keep your ignorance to yourself - it would have taken you about 5 seconds to answer you own dullard's question

  • @user-zg9kw4rd1y
    @user-zg9kw4rd1y Před 2 lety

    Такая красивая, явно не по папиной линии.

  • @macker8017
    @macker8017 Před rokem +1

    He liked bonking

  • @Angry.Dinosaur
    @Angry.Dinosaur Před rokem +1

    Narcissist

  • @katarzynamuszynska5426

    What is the town name Toadhole ?

  • @brianvesta
    @brianvesta Před 3 lety +7

    Kim is trigged big time...😂
    But but women love bad boys.....Kim is gonna love telling the story of her grandfather being bigamist at dinner parties....😂

    • @charlottebruce979
      @charlottebruce979 Před 3 lety +37

      I'm pretty sure she didnt think of her grandfather as anything but an irresponsible despicable man who left Kim's mother, very poor and without a father figure. Women might like a 'bad boy' for about five minutes they are young, but when you get older you realise what pathetic losers they are, like her grandfather was.

    • @thegirlinquestion
      @thegirlinquestion Před 2 lety

      okay incel

    • @sarcasticallyrearranged
      @sarcasticallyrearranged Před rokem +1

      Brian, what in the hell are you talking about?
      What “bad boy?”
      Her grandmother was married to someone who obviously turned out to be a loser, yet you still somehow excuse his behavior?

    • @kierabyrnemusic
      @kierabyrnemusic Před rokem +5

      I disagree, He destroyed their lives. So much so Kim carries the pain from her mother. He left them so unbelievably poor and completely erased them from his memory. Then to learn, he made a new family and vanished from his first families lives forever. Wow.

  • @0351nick-ch8ee
    @0351nick-ch8ee Před 2 lety +1

    Hypocrit...you know she wouldn't be upset if it was a female relative.

    • @katarzynamuszynska5426
      @katarzynamuszynska5426 Před rokem +5

      What would be matter ?
      Woman or man ?
      No difference

    • @lillyess385
      @lillyess385 Před 11 měsíci

      Of course she would. You think women abandoning their children is celebrated? Women who abandon their kids are seen as the lowest of the low. This man could have divorced his wife and moved on, had some contact with his kids.

  • @pattyajones
    @pattyajones Před rokem

    I simply cannot understand why these people take this stuff personally? Who are they to judge? Why put yourself through all that agony. What's done is DONE. You asked to look them up, grow up and move on.

    • @madeleinalazaris8138
      @madeleinalazaris8138 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Maybe so but her mum and aunts wanted to know and understand what had happened to their dad and why he left. They never had closure before now.
      She's getting angry and reacting because her grandfather left his first family in such dire poverty that they had to sell the furniture whilst he started a new family and seemed to be doing pretty well for himself but didn't seem to care for his daughters that he left behind.