The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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the fact, that mothers in law frequently fail to win the love of step children from a want of sympathy towards them. They rule by authority rather than lead by love. My brother Daniel after his second marriage took a house at Barleythorpe near Oakham that had been I understood a hunting box of a Melton sportsman, and some land in the neighbourhood. In some matters, to please the lady, appearing more in the style of the gentlemen farmer, than their income warranted, and unfortunately he suffered severely by the loss of a considerable number of valuable cattle by one of the first out-breaks of the foot, and mouth cattle disease; a second out-break and heavy loss disheartened him so, that he gave up the land. He lived afterwards at Oakham, during which time, he, as deacon at the Church at Barrowden, and

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