| Description | DOB: 17th February 1890
DOD: Unknown
Growing up in Liverpool, she was the ninth child to a seafarer and his wife, one of her siblings being Agnes Cowper who had her own autobiography.
The vessel wreckage which lost her father occurred when she was only five years old.
She attended St Silas’s C. E. School, as well as Sunday School.
She had suffered from scarlet fever as a child, and had to take time off from school.
Following an incident, she ended up attending Upper Park St. Board School, in the girls’ department.
Married in 1916 with children.
She accepted the proposal from a former teacher to work as a Pupil Teacher at her old school.
Upon passing appropriate exams, she went back to her old school again as a trained certified teacher.
She was informative on life in “a working-class suburb in the nineties”.
She attended a P.T. Centre on Clarence Street, upon passing its exam.
Her uncle provided the funding for her to go to a training college to become a trained teacher.
She enjoyed performing “family concerts” with her siblings, as well as reading fictional books.
A strong thrifter, she was good at calculating the best bargains.
This is a typed biography, with frequent handwritten notes, totalling 80 pages.
Family, Childhood Entertainment, [Pricings], [Loss], [Bereavement] |