The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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largest gardeners and nursery-men in the Eastern Counties. This was in May 1816. He had made preparations for going when about 9 o’clock of a Tuesday morning he was seized with violent sickness. Our dear mother used the common remedies for a bilious attack but could not stay the violent sickness. A messenger was dispatched for the family Doctor who lived 4 miles away. H was some time before he could come, and when he came it was too late, so violent had the sickness been that he sank after about 20 hours. I was then about 9 years old and well remember the panic caused by his death, in the family, in the village, and at Uppingham market, where his business ability, and honourable conduct had won respect.     He was engaged to

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