| Description | DOB: 21 June 1880
DOD: 5 April 1968
She was the child Reuben Moody and Eleanor Bewsey, one of thirteen children in fifteen years; one being stillborn and five dying during infancy.
Her mother died young from an abscess in the lung at 35, and her father married again to a woman 27 years his junior.
Lived with her grandma temporarily after a family outbreak of diphtheria.
Attended a little school in Castle Road, when she was five.
Suffered from whooping cough, bronchitis, congestion of the lungs and brain for nearly three months.
Attended Sunday school, at Elm Grove Baptist, with her sister Ruby.
She restarted school at eleven and was very happy, till 1894.
Married in 1905, with two daughters and one son.
Before her 16th birthday, she was apprenticed to dressmaking, something which she continued for eight years.
In 1898 she got her first job, upon finishing her apprenticeship.
She appeared to be quite politically and socially invested in current affairs.
She was thoroughly interested in Sunday School, and life at the Chapel, having taught at Sunday School and ran a girls’ Bible Class.
She participated in mountain climbing, embroidery and sewing of dresses, as well as singing for Church too.
It is prefaced that the narrative occurred during the reign of George III till the reign of Elizabeth II.
Context is provided on public executions still being commonplace.
Comments were made on the “Hungry Forties” and the Potato Famine.
There is constant reference to key moments during Queen Victoria’s reign.
Includes the events of the First World War.
This narrative is typed, with a total of 57 pages.
Royalty, [Monarchy], Religion, Illnesses |