| Description | DOB: unknown
DOD: unknown
Had at least five siblings.
No mention of marriage.
No mention of employment.
On Sunday afternoons all the family packed into a dog-cart, to view their own and their neighbours' pastures and to comment as each field succeeded the other.
On summer Sunday afternoons, it was customary to walk a couple of miles down the deserted railway track to wonderful orchards of apples and during the season - wonderful strawberries.
On Winter and wet Sundays, each member of the family settled down to a book of his choice.
WWI
Them newly-married to the farm house, and after the usual preliminaries, they settled down to farming life.
Prisoners of war came to help with the harvest and general heavy work, in return for food.
The farm children were cared for, by two youngsters who were sisters, only twelve and fourteen years.
throughout the war years the farm windows were kept dark as even lamp-light penetrated the night when it became inky black.
The atobiography is type-written.
War, Farm, Childhood, Family, Poverty. |