Related Clues:

• Rose can't work out who might be great-grandmother?
• Trace son in order to reveal forefather
• A chick originally in nest -- or older bird?
• Cares not about one farther up the tree
• Someone further up tree glances to rear, missing things on either side
• Contributor to person's descent or ascent, curiously
• Perchance story will include old relative
• An odd escort for an older person
• Front-runner, perhaps holding off Germany, and it's gold for France!
• Drunk on crates had a part to play in Roots
• Enactors (anag.)
• Grandparent, e.g
• Forebear -- no trace, regrettably, across South
• Forebear caught stabbing a wise old king
• In reduced circumstances, Torquay is the answer for great-granny, perhaps?