The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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New Testament, and I suspect from what I remember of the Rev Jno Green he would. One sensible thing they decided upon – to drop the controversy, and be as good or better friends that ever, which they were to the day of her death.
Although she came of a good old Puritan stock, on her mother’s side, she believed in children and young people having recreation; 70 or 80 years since the chief amusements in religious families were:- blind man’s buff, Bagatelle, and Dominoes, and though she in my days seldom took part in the various games, see enjoyed seeing her children and young people happy.
As the youngest son my personal recollections of my mother was after she had attained middle life, her mind was vigorous, and experience matured. Her management of her large family of children, and farm,

     

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