The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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bordering on obstinacy, to wit, when the Belton fields were enclosed, altho’ the Commissioners offered him a good road down to the public road, which would have saved his fields and been sufficiently near, he demanded a new direct road, and obstinately rejected the one offered, so he lost a good road, had to make one down his own field which besides being further led into a bit of bad road, as any perhaps in the country, which to the present day I fear lead to much annoyance, cursing and swearing to this day. Like many a tall man, he married a little woman, Anna Curtis, of Harringworth, in the year 1745. She was a descendant of the somewhat celebrated Stephen Curtis, of Harringworth remarkable in his day for his nonconformity and suffering for them.  I feel constrained to turn aside

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