The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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I gathered also on account of his becoming a Dissenter, and especially a Baptist, the Arnold family gave him the cold shoulder. He became acquainted with Miss Elizabeth Sapcote, the daughter of a venerable member of the old Morcott Church, a man honourably mentioned for his many excellencies a farmer living at a village near to Morcott. John Arnold and Elizabeth Sapcote were married and came to Barrowden about the year 1770. He established a considerable vinegar works. They tell a story that nearly a dozen of a party had a dinner in one of his large vats. He was a man of considerable means, education and ability. He was elected a Deacon for the Morcott Church and was a very efficient assistant minister. He opened a place for worship upon his premises, which he chiefly supplied, till he was afflicted in the year 1812. He died

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