John Hurt Meets With His Brother - Who Do You Think You Are?

John visits his brother, Michael, who has a photograph of Emma Stafford, and reveals that she was a Ward in Chancery - a means by which wealthy fathers commonly provided for illegitimate children. Emma later married Walter Lord Browne, who built Westport House School in Grimsby.

From the moment John Hurt first set foot in Ireland, he felt a strong affinity to it - he felt that it was his home. Equipped with a family tale that his great grandmother, Emma Stafford, was the illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Sligo, John sets out on the trail of his Irish roots - and to see if this story is true.

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