The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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course of Love seldom runs smooth.” A few hasty words divided those who might have been equally yoked. It gave a tinge of sadness and tended to increase a hereditary tendency to morbid melancholy which as she grew older became more developed. Several years after she married an excellent Christian man John Culpin, by whom she had one son and three daughters, two of whom lived with us for years, and were esteemed by us for their goodness and usefulness; both of whom to the day of my poor sister’s long affliction till her death, were kind and dutiful daughters to their mother. Two little babes, a brother and sister died in their infancy before I was born whose little innocent bodies the bigoted Belton parson would not bury, because my parents were Baptists, so they were buried at Morcott.

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