Derker where it Hall started for Jerry

BACK to her roots . . . Jerry Hall in Derker, featured on the show last night Picture from BBC Television

THE fascinating story of the ancestors of model and actress Jerry Hall was aired on national television last night... and it all started on a little street in Derker.

World-famous Hall — once married to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger — appeared on the BBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” ancestry programme.

Though Hall, who now lives in Surrey, grew up in Texas, her father’s side of the family originate from Oldham.

The beginning of the show focused on Hall’s great-grandfather James Hall who at 10 worked as a cotton piecer at an Oldham cotton mill before moving on to be a supervisor as an adult.

He lived at number 18 Waverley Street, Derker, with relatives also living in numbers 16 and 14.

Last night’s show captured the moment Hall walked on the street and saw the outside of her great-grandfather’s old house.

The programme then revealed that James became a railway worker and in 1881 made the big move to Texas to start work on rail lines being built in the area where he was also joined by his wife and two children.

James’ wife died of kidney disease in 1883, his son also died and his daughter was adopted.

He bought farmland, started a new life and married Jerry’s great-grandmother in 1886.

The show also revealed that Hall’s mother’s side of the family had settled in Missouri where they fought a constant battle over land with native Americans before moving to Texas where her mother and father eventually met.