David Tennant Meets With His Protestant Cousins - Who Do You Think You Are?

David is off to meet his cousin Billy Blair, who can hopefully shed more light on the lives of both David's great grandfather William and Archie Macleod. Both were affected by the political battles that surrounded Irish independence and Northern Ireland's secession from the Republic.

Famous for playing the time-traveller Dr Who, David Tennant has decided to abandon the Tardis and investigate his own history.

David was born in Bathgate, a post-industrial town between Glasgow and Edinburgh, in 1971. His father, Alexander McDonald, is a minister in the Church of Scotland. David changed his second name, as many actors do. Tennant being inspired by The Pet Shop Boy's Neil Tennant.

Beginning his historical investigations by focusing on his father's side of the family, David quickly discovered that the paper trail goes cold relatively early on. This means David's hope of tracing his family back to the time of the clans would take a huge amount of research, so he instead turned his attention to the ancestry of his maternal grandfather, Archie McLeod.

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