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Gallery: Who Do You Think You Are?

Here stands Maggie Beer out the front of her great great great grandparents ancestral home in Cockfighters Creek, NSW.

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wd4Here stands Maggie Beer out the front of her great great great grandparents ancestral home in Cockfighters Creek, NSW.

It is but one of the moments in upcoming episodes of SBS’ excellent genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?

Beer appears in the episode on October 25th on SBS ONE.

Tomorrow night it is singer Christine Anu who traces her family tree. These photos are from those episodes.
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Christine Anu in front of the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum in Cambridge, UK.
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Christine Anu and relative Ama Rona visiting the gravesite of Christine’s late great grandmother Waiwai on Saibai Island.
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Maggie Beer Standing in front of Tower Bridge in London on the trail of her bigamist ancestor Dr Thomas Parmeter.
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Maggie Beer in Hill End holding picture of great great grandparents Michael & Anna Marie Ackermann.

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Maggie Beer looking through church records of her German descendants in Budenheim Catholic Church, Budenheim Germany.

The series concludes a week later with John Butler.

Who Do You Think You Are? airs 7:30pm Sundays on SBS ONE.

16 Responses

  1. Maggie
    we are trying to locate the Old Bailey trial report, we loved your program, our family line is from the first of the children of Thomas and Jane

  2. Hi Marie and Fred,

    Am still waiting for you both to send me your email address and what it is you both wish to know!

    It appears to me that both of you are not that interested.

    Again ,I leave the option open to you both!

    Cheers,
    Caroline Parmeter

  4. Hi , Im Maggie Beer’s cousin and loved the “Who Do You Think You Are” program. I would like to make contact with Caroline Parmeter or any other Parmeter re family history.

    Fred Carter

  5. Hi Maree Croxon,

    If you write to me at above email address I will give you information re Dr. Thomas Parmeters 5 children and descendants.

    Cheers,

    Caroline

  6. Hi,

    I have been researching my Parmeter line for 30 years and Anne, (October 25th 2009 8.46pm) ,as you only saw and heard a minute of Thomas’ life and you must remember the show is just that, a “show” put on to entertain!

    You certainly do not know early Australian history as is obvious.
    Statements of “no respectable woman” and “bedwarmer”!

    Jane and Thomas were always on good terms and he surely did not think less of her!
    He is buried at “Rathlubra” as is Jane Rotton.

    I think the show is great but you must not take it to heart!

    Cheer
    Caroline

    What happened to the 5 children?……..No she did not take them with her.
    I am a descendant of one of the 5

  8. Hello,
    My husband’s family are related to Thomas Parmeter and I watched your program with interest. My husband’s grandmothers sister Doreen Lambert, wrote a book about Thomas Parmeter. I would love to get the references for the information you have on the tree. Stephen (my husband) his grandmother Enid Joyce Minton nee Gilbert is the daughter of Elizabeth McGowan, Samuel McGowan and Jane Anne Parmeter.

    Thanks
    Maree Croxon

  9. Hello Maggie, What a wonderful story, of you bigamist g.g.g.grandfather and the four women.
    I too are doing my family tree the hard way. I have been searching my g.g.g.grand parents in Tasmania. And have just received after searching for along time she was an Irish convict who did her sentencing in Cascade female factory in Hobart for 15 years hard labour for arson in Limerick. She seemed a bad red haired girl two babies one still born and the other 5 weeks old before she died, then later she married a young English farm servant but not a convict.

    Maybe why Dr Parameter never married Jane Meredith is because convicts were never allowed to marry fellow convicts.

    I am having trouble finding my g.g.g.grandfather who was sent out to Tasmania as free person as a 19 year old on the “Bolivar”‘in 1841.
    Just thought you might like to read some of my great convict ancestor story.

    Regards and best of luck Robyn

  10. i would like to know if Maggie has her Husband family history, Beers. as i have Beers on my Family. and would like to know if she has a John Beer Married to Grace Ann Mitchell. Please could she contated me. are your Beers from the Burra Mines. and did they oridgenate from the Redruth Cornwall, England
    Teresa Ann Drewett

  11. hello, really enjoyed tonight’s prog, maggies journey, and the added interest that i hail from near hillend.
    Im left with the query, i hope can be answered…What was the fate of Dr Thomas Parmeter after jane left him? Did he stay there? When did he die? etc.
    many thanks , deb bonham

  12. I coulnd’t find the chat board, so I’m putting my comment here.

    Fantastic program, Maggie and researchers. What a wonderful story — better than a novel. I’m a romantic, too, and for me, the best part is when your GGGmother “jumped the fence and became Mrs Rotten.

    I could never believe Thomas was a true romantic and that their relationship was real. He was a snob — he married pseudo countesses and heiresses of Halls — and my guess is he was vain and selfish with a romantical bent rather than any real romance in him — starring himself in his own story. I bet he thought himself above the usual convicts and since he couldn’t marry and no “respectable” woman in the colony would have him, he picked out a convict girl. I’m sure she was housekeeper and bedwarmer and I don’t believe there would be much respect for her. So when you were hoping for it to become a love match, I was saying, no, no to the TV and I was thrilled when she jumped the fence and went to Mr Rotten and later married him.

    But I really, really wanted to know what happened to the first 5 kids — did she take them with her?

    Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your history with us. I loved every minute of it.

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