The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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year, before I set up housekeeping and married. I took stock Sep. 1830 and found I had made about a pound a week profit. I had used the most rigid economy to accomplish even that small sum. I bargained with the old lady, to board and lodge me for 7/- per week. I wanted her to put in 3 weeks for 20/- but I could not move her. She seemed quite anxious for me to do well, only she did not approve of me, marrying a girl without some property. When I named to my brother William that I should like him to be best man, he declined, I believe lest he should get into trouble with his old lady. So we arranged with two friends who had come out of Lincolnshire to Goose Fair. William Wilcox, a son of a very old friend of the family, and a lady who came with him, were groomsman and bridesmaid. We had a good and early breakfast at Anna’s Mothers in Glasshouse

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