![]() Marta Dusseldorp with UofG's Dr Angus Ferguson at her ancestral home in Dumbarton. Marta’s quest to discover her family ancestry took her from Australia to mainland Europe and eventually to Scotland. The actress is best known in the UK for her part in the BBC1 Australian melodrama A Place to Call Home. Frederick’s great-granddaughter is Australian film, television and theatre actress Marta Dusseldorp. One of the eight sons, Frederick Gordon Robertson who began his medical training at Glasgow in 1901, eventually emigrated to Australia. Now this Scottish family’s medical story is being retold for Who Do You Think You Are Australia Season 10 in 2019. “Their courses completed, the family largely dispersed – one to South Africa, one to Australia, others to practices in England, one died young and only one remained in Scotland.” Small wonder that, as Mrs Robertson recalls, one of the professors under whom the boys studied one day asked in bewilderment: ‘How many more of you are there?’ It added: “This extraordinary record was recounted to us by Mrs Mabel Robertson, the widow of the youngest son, Frank. Of the 10 boys, eight went to the University of Glasgow to study medicine. The article said that of the 15 children of Dr John Robertson and his wife Elizabeth, 10 were boys. ![]() ![]() The researchers working in collaboration with the University’s archivists found the Robertson family’s medical record story in the 1976 edition of the Graduates Association magazine. Now this fascinating medical world record and story has been rediscovered by researchers looking into the family of Australian film, television and theatre actress Marta Dusseldorp for Who Do You Think You Are Australia. ![]() This amazing family of doctors even merited a mention in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records. Credit Who Do You Think You Are?Ī remarkable story of a record-breaking family of doctors who all trained at the University of Glasgow has been highlighted in the Australian version of Who Do You Think You Are?Įight sons of Dr John Robertson of Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire all followed their father into medicine over 20 years starting in the 1880s. Australian actress Marta Dusseldrop at the University of Glasgow's Archives. ![]()
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