The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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was quite agreeable, to merry and fun loving natures. Her husband’s lively cheerful temperament sometimes exercised her patience, but his good nature and many good qualities, and devotedness to her, and our aged mother secured her esteem, although she could not always carry out Paul’s injunction to Christian wives, “See that ye reverence your husbands”. By great care and prudence they secured a sufficiency to maintain them in their old age, and to aid the Church at Morcott and Barrowden. I received many letters from her, breathing a loving sisterly spirit and almost always giving evidence of her great anxiety for the prosperity of the cause of Christ. I do not remember at any time an unbrotherly or sisterly feeling existing between us. She had arranged in her

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