Pamela Flood traces her family history

Pamela"s biggest fear was that her family history would be too boring and normal.... She needn"t have worried! An innocuous letter written by her grandmother opens up an amazing adventure through 19th and early 20th Century Dublin, taking in grand gentry houses and red-light districts, millionaire solicitors and pawnbrokers, contested wills, illegitimate children and, eventually, murder. The only inkling Pamela had of something unusual in her family tree was a story her granny used to tell, about being sent to stay with her grandmother at Corballis House: a grand country home that, until this year, stood at the entrance to Dublin Airport. How could such an ordinary, working class family be connected to such a posh house, and why did they leave? Pamela arranged to meet historian David Nolan, who has written a history of Corballis House. His records show that a man named Donoghue was listed as the owner of Corballis for a period of time, and before that, the house was owned by a very wealthy Dublin solicitor, Joseph Wall. Then Pamela remembered that on David Donoghue"s 1880 birth certificate, his mother"s maiden name was "Wall". There must be some connection between Pamela"s great great grandmother Mary Wall, and this wealthy solicitor Joseph Wall .. but what is it? In doing further research into the Wall family Pamela comes across an article which refers to a suspicious death for which various members of the Wall family were under suspicion! Join Pamela as she gets to the bottom of a family mystery which finally gets resolved. Who Do You Think You Are? is on RTÉ One on Monday at 9.35pm.