Here's my Great-Grandmother Harriet Sarah Jackson, 1840ish - 1925, a very scary-looking lady, apparently used to sit on the doorstep smoking a clay pipe. After her husband died, she used to pack her bags and arrive to stay at her children's homes in turn, unannounced
Barbara
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My late dad and sisters were just old enough to remembered her, think she frightened them all! Her husband looked a little more gentle I think, perhaps a little henpecked!
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My Grandma: Betty. Now aged (nearly) 92. Rumour has it that she was once on the cover of a magazine. She worked for 'The Lady' in the 1930's, and was asked by the magazine which held the offices next door to appear on their front cover. Her uncle kept a copy of the magazine for years, but I never got to see it..wish I had. Unfortunately, she now has alzheimer's so I can't ask her about it.
Thanks. But it wasn't the Lady magazine she was on the cover of, it was a magazine in a neighbouring office.. Any suggestions about which magazine that was or how to find out gratefully received!
My brand new cousin sent me a photo/postcard of my family at their farm in Cheshire. My Grandma is bottom left, My Great Aunt bottom right, my G Grandmother middle left and G Grandfather top left. My GG Grandfather is in the middle and GG Uncle Llewellyn in the middle at the back. I don't know who the rest are YET but can't wait to find out...... I think the woman in the middle on the right looks very much like my G Grandmother - maybe it's her sister?? I am very excited!!!!
I love that picture! The man at the rear, right, has those wooden shoes they wore in the cotton mills in Lancashire, am I right ? I forget what they called them in England. Are they like the French sabots?
Oh yeah - I didn't notice that. The farm was in Cheshire, so close to the cotton mills. I don't know what you call the shoes....... Glad you like it......
Claire
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Mattey (Herefordshire) Jones (Anglesey/Flintshire/Glamorgan/Shropshire) Forsyth (Chester le Street, Durham) Nicholls (Sedgeley) Wright (Yorkshire - Masham, Coverham) Hankinson (Lancashire) Wray (yorkshire - ripon and whitby) Gray (Alton Hampshire) Rouse (Oxfordshire) Waterhouse (Leicestershire - around Castle Donington) Ironmonger (Leicestershire/Derbyshire - around Castle Donington) Cruddas (Barnard Castle, Chester le Street Durham)