Just to add something about my grandmothers birthday book, as there was a question about why some names were in it and others not ...
Firstly ... it seems to have been given to her (Florence Williams) July 18th, 1894 'With Baby Don's love and thanks for all her kindness to him' !! Every date has an uplifting text or quote ... some of which I remember her quoting to me as a child ! She would have been 15 years old at the time. The names and dates she recorded in it are a mixture; some have a name and a year, for e.g. her father on the 9th January (
'Work as if thou hadst to live for aye; Worship as if thou hadst to die today.') ... she has just written 'John Williams, 1839'.
Other entries are a bit more full ... 11th January (
'Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee') has written 'No. 2 baby Millicent, 1907' (that one being my own mother !)
And
possibly the one you've all been waiting for ... 31st August (
'A little explained, a little endured, a little forgiven - the quarrel is cured') ... it says 'ALICE Katie (or Hattie) Squires' ... but no year given
Could this be the elusive Allice (Queenie) ?
Now to continue with a summary of the Ambrose's and Trowbridges of Tollard Royal, et al !
