The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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his mother when on a Sunday she went to worship at Morcott, nearly 7 miles. She rode on a pillion behind him, the fashion amongst many farmers in those days. The roads were so bad on the cross country that no gig or light conveyance could travel. When my father and mother were married at Barrowden, my mother rode behind my father on his old bonny on a pillion. The daughters of merchants now a days would not enjoy such a primitive way of travelling. They were both members of the Baptist church Morcott, before their marriage which too k place in 1791. He was in his 37 year, my Mother in her 23rd. He was considered a good judge of stock being especially fond of sheep; was remarkable in those days of jolly farmers who generally came home what was called market merry, and a

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