The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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to me saying, “Arnold my son, be not unduly anxious about things of this life, one thing is needful.” The child who has such a mother has one of the greatest earthly blessings, proving to him a guiding star through life, and often calling by her example and loving teaching to the attainment of a purer and higher life. She lived to the ripe old age of 86 years leaving behind her a character endeared and enshrined in the memory of her children and friends who knew her in her full vigour and maturity of mind. She died April 29th 1855, and was buried at Barrowden in the Chapel yard, her youngest son had a neat monument to her memory erected in the Chapel. I will give a brief account of my brothers and sisters, some of them are and were

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