Prescott’s great grandfather fathered his daughters children

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John Prescott

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been given evidence his three times great-grandfather fathered children with his own daughter.

Mr Prescott, who was born in Prestatyn, Denbighshire in 1938, makes the discovery in a BBC Wales programme.

Genealogists traced his Welsh ancestry back 300 years.

He is moved to tears when he learns his great-great grandmother, Athaliah Parrish, bore four children while living with her widowed father, Thomas.

Mr Prescott’s family moved from Wales to Yorkshire when he was aged five.

In the series, Coming Home, he returns to Chirk, in the county of Wrexham, to research his Welsh roots further.

His Welsh mother, Phyllis, was from the border town, where she and her 11 siblings lived in a miner’s cottage. 

Posted by Tash on Nov 28th, 2009 and filed under England. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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