Jerry Hall discovers her great-grandfather was one of the first few to travel from England to Texas, back when it was still a buffer between the still new USA and Mexico.
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Jerry Hall knows her father's family were originally from Oldham but wants to find out how they ended up in America. Her journey takes her from the cotton mills of Lancashire to the plains of Texas at the time of the railroads. Once there, Jerry also investigates her mother's side of the family and discovers her ancestors' pioneering roots as they blazed a trail west across America at the time of the Frontier, and a connection to the original pioneer and folk hero - Daniel Boone.
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The Texan supermodel Jerry Hall first found fame soon after moving to Paris as a teenager. But where did Mick Jagger’s partner for more than 20 years get her “pioneer spirit”, her sense of adventure? “I suppose it’s in the genes,” she says at the start of her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? “We’ll find out.” The first forebear Jerry goes searching for is a paternal great grandfather, James Hall, but she doesn’t initially find traces of him in the New World. Rather, Jerry heads for Oldham in Lancashire, where she learns James was a child labourer, who worked in a cotton mill as a ‘piecer’, responsible for repairing yarn breakages even as the mill’s machines kept running. James was promoted to become a supervisor, but in 1881, as he turned 30, his life changed forever when he shipped out for Texas. He was drawn by the prospect of well-paid work constructing the railways and the opportunity to acquire land. Initially, he left his family, a wife and two children, in the UK, and Jerry fears he was “an adventurous cad” who did “a runner”. James’s family joined him in 1882, only for his wife, Martha, to die of kidney disease in 1883. It’s unclear what happened to James’s baby son, but it seems a family friend adopted his daughter, Clara.