| Description | Annie Elizabeth Passiful
DOB: 2 July 1895
DOD: N/A
Born in Portslade, Sussex; raised in a double-fronted flint cottage.
Grew up in a working-class family with rich local customs, close-knit community, and vivid memories of local traditions like Garland Day and Maypole dancing.
Early exposure to household responsibilities from age 13 due to family illness and unemployment.
Attended local school in Portsdale, left in 1908 aged 13.
Informal education enriched by work at Prtslade Vicarage, where exposure to guests like Mrs. Barnett and Rev. Boyle expanded her intellectual horizons.
Domestic service from 1908: positions included housemaid, house parlour maid and cook.
Significant roles at Portslade Vicarage and Hazeldene in Crawley, where she stayed 131/2 years.
Managed large household kitchens, made extensive preserves and jams, and was involved in formal dinner service.
Never married; no children mentioned.
Played a significant care giving role in her family, particularly later in her life.
Deep appreciation of music and art, developed through the Hazeldene household.
Enjoyed storytelling, historical recollections, and preserving family history.
Fond of animals; enjoyed walking with the family dog.
Attended to Mrd Barnett (Dame Henrietta Barnett), and influential reformer.
Witnessed and documented the shifts in Portslade's social landscape, customs, and architecture.
Part of musical and civic commemorations at Hazeldene (e.g., golden wedding celebration).
Involved in care giving during WWII and post-war years.
Handwritten, later transcribed by her nephew.
Portslade, Boxall family, passiful family, Coombes, Fittleworth, St. Botolphs, domestic service, Garland Day, Dame Henrietta Barnett, Rev. Boyle, Toymbee Hall, Vicarage, Hazeldene Orchestra, genealogy, Nonconformist Church, Trinity House Pilot, windjammers, Southwick, Southern Cross, traditional sweets and preserves, music and violin, Horsham, Victorian Customs. |