In tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are, Champion swimmer Lisa Curry, wants to discover where her drive to succeed and her fighting spirit comes from.
When swimmer Lisa Curry delves into her maternal family past, she finds hard-working German immigrants who risked everything to become the masters of their own destiny in Queensland.
Lisa’s distant relationship with her late father had a profound effect on her life. But by tracing his life and her paternal ancestors in war-torn Ireland, Lisa comes to terms with who her father was, and finally gets to farewell him in her own way.
Who Do You Think You Are – Tuesday June 9 at 7:30pm on SBS
Who Do You Think You Are? Broadcast schedule:
Episode 1 Tuesday 19 May Lisa Wilkinson
Episode 2 Tuesday 26 May Bert Newton
Episode 3       Tuesday 2 June         Cameron Daddo
Episode 4 Tuesday 9 June Lisa Curry
Episode 5 Tuesday 16 June Denise Scott
Episode 6 Tuesday 23 June Kat Stewart
Episode 7 Tuesday 30 June Julie Bishop
Episode 8 Tuesday 7 July Troy Cassar-Daley
Lisa assumes that her German grandparents reunited in death because they are buried next to each other. She does not realise that even if you married again you were always buried next to your first spouse. This was common back in the day.