The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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Goodliffe was born at Lambley Lodge Nov 13th 1756. He inherited a physical constitution more of the maternal than the paternal – rather feeble and delicate. I understand that from childhood he was timid but remarkable for truthfulness. When quite a child on one occasion when the servants were committing an act of dishonesty which he saw and which was pretty certain to be found out, they tried to frighten him to make him tell a lie. They let him down in a bucket in the well till he would promise them he would say they did not do it. It so frightened him that he was a long time before he got over it. He was of a kind gentle disposition, but not like his father a strong willed man, but very conscientious, a loving son to his mother whom he so much in many ways resembled. He often accompanied

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