A sad Tale ,,
A Young girl born in Essex Works as a nurse ,Before meeting a man some how from the little village of Leintwardine in Herefordshire .
They Marry and move to Gloucester and settle down in the poor westend of the city a very poor slum type area then late 1870s ,
Well they settled down and had a family of five children then another but he dies after just five days .
Well a few years passes by then the husband gets ill
He dies in 1895 of enteric fever ,,
So a a little while passes by and she remarries and settles
down again a stones throw from where she lived before still in same bad conditions but she take on four more children another on of these dies a bit latter !
The sons from firs husband go to war another one dies !
Then later she becomes ill and is in bed for a while when the Dr is called to see her an appointment is made to see a Dr at the hosp ,
She is told of a growth in her stomach ,And would need an operation . This put her in a panic thinking i suppose of her first husband !
So she went home ,,
Then on the 17 night of October She Wrote a short note
And put it on the mantle piece and walked down the garden into
the river ......
She was found next morning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That lady was my Great Granmother ,,,,,,,,
