The Secret History of My Family Season 1 Episode 4 The Nelsons & Margaret Marchant
- March 31, 2016
- 52 min
The story of an Edwardian family locked in benefit dependency, and of a mother, accused of a shocking crime against her own child. Did the welfare given to Susan Nelson's family provide her descendants with the chance to move up in life?
More than a hundred years on, some of Susan's descendants remain trapped in patterns of benefit dependency - while others have freed their families from the grinding poverty of their ancestor. But was it government welfare or hard graft that liberated them from their past?
