The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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for her to rally. After suffering most acutely although she remained unconscious except for a few minutes when she touchingly exhorted her children to cherish tender affections towards each other, she died on the 16th March 1837. The fire was in a room where a number of girls were working, one of them carelessly upset a candle, the lace caught fire. Mrs Speed in her anziety to put it out, her clothes caught fire, and 2 girls also were burned. She had besides my wife, her eldest daughter, 4 children, 3 of them were young. In the house we then lived in we had but 2 bedrooms and a small attic, we were 7 in family, the three youngest for some time lived with us, looking back to that time we marvel how we managed. It was indeed a season of sore trial. Mother Speed was industrious and kind to her children, looking back 50 years, we are thankful to have been able to render aid to the motherless in a time of need. During the next two or three years trade was

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