On 16/06/2013 12:22, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > And Scottish actor Brian Cox apparently became furious and outraged when > learning that his great-grandfather ended up in a Scottish workhouse, "at one > point Brian looks as if he might punch the archivist"..."B******s!" he declares > as the full horror of his family history is laid bare. I am going to a short course at our local archive and the archivist told a similar story about when he found a visitor's ancestor had been the Poorhouse. It took some time to convince him that it was true.