just after discovering that my great-great granduncle John Mcateer was funded by Lenin& #39;s old secretary& #39;s organisation to flee to the soviet union after being imprisoned for robbing a post office in Liverpool and so he then changed his name to David Ivanowich

in 1937 he was executed for drunkenly accusing the Odessa CP branch leader of being a trotskyist

not to mention that he occupied Rotunda with my other great-great granduncle Jim Phelan, along with Liam O& #39;Flaherty, chair of the council for the unemployed

had no idea that any of these people were members of my family until tonight

this honestly sounds like something I would make up in a fantasy dream as a child but there is evidence of what I& #39;ve spent the past 3 hours discovering https://www.georgegarrettarchive.co.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/73-jim-phelan-s-liverpool-home.html">https://www.georgegarrettarchive.co.uk/component...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hrcg4">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... great-granduncle Jim Phelan, who was homeless, on the BBC giving an insight into the life of tramps in Wales, including how they earn money on the road