The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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not known by any of my children. My father and mother fulfilled one of the divine injunctions “to increase and multiply.” My eldest sister Elizabeth was born in 1793. She was rather small in stature, and of delicate health, of a sweet gentle disposition, very much resembling her grandmother Goodliffe. She went to live at her grandmother Arnold’s at Barrowden. She unfortunately married Sam Richmond, who became a sad inebriate, and after a short life of pain and relief on account of her husband’s bad habits, and violent conduct, and unkind treatment, she died before she was 40, leaving 5 sons and 1 daughter, most of whom died by middle life. I spent some little time, about my tenth year, in order that I might get a little schooling and saw the sad efforts of drunkenness. It had such an influence

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