The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham
The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold
Goodliffe
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in the year 1815.
My Grandmother Arnold was as I have said a
daughter of a farmer, an old member at Morcott. She was one of an old Puritan stock of the 1st water.
She was a tall, commanding woman, born to lead, with a large measure of salt in
her composition. When I went to see her, if it was a cold day there was always
a sip of elderberry wine or comforter for the stomach of some sort with and a
nice slice of seed cake, and sundry and divers admonitions to be careful not to
make any dirt - a very necessary admonition no doubt in my case. She was great in cordials and remedies - the
village doctoress - when she walked out with her tall-silver-tasselled stick in
her old age, the country obeisance and courtesy were accorded to her and I
fancy accepted. Soon after her husband’s
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