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Gary Markwick's family history
Gary's family background is of part Celtic origin. His grandfather and mother achieved BBC TV and radio fame during the 1950`s, performing with celebrities and working as mind readers, escapologists and illusionists". They also became known in clairvoyance and palmistry.
Some newspaper cuttings from Gary's family's past:
Grandfather:
DEFYING DEATH: ESCAPOLOGIST'S DIVE INTO LAGAN BOUND AND HANDCUFFED
  The above is a caricature of Death Defying Duncan the famous escapologist. Preparatory to diving off the Albert Bridge, Belfast at one o'clock yesterday when he again attempted to defy death by a sensational dive into the Lagan, bound with thirty feet of chain and five pairs of handcuffs, and his head encased in a chain helmet.
Mr Duncan said afterwards that this was one of the riskiest dives made in his entire career .
Named as the"British Houdini. No challenge was to great
DAILY MIRROR DEC 11 1950
"I know just what you boys are thinking," says Georgina
 Georgina Lindsay, 19, has promised her fiance she will give up working when she marries him in February. This is just as well, as Georgina - engaged to George Markwick of Camden Town, London - works as a mind-reader.
She and her father, The Great Marlo, have been booked by the BBC, for their Christmas Night studio party, at which Jimmy Edwards will be host. Georgina has been rehearsing with servicemen at the Nuffield Centre (above).
She promises to tell listeners exactly what Jimmy Edwards and the rest of the guests are thinking on Christmas Night - and they'll be asked afterwards if she's right.
The Great Marlo and his daughter were given seventy different tests before they were booked for their high spot broadcast. "We were successful in 63 of them," he says. "It runs in the family, my great grandmother was ducked as a witch."
Georgina claims to be have been able to read people's minds since she was a little girl.
View "Pathe News" reel of Gary Markwick's grandfather
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