The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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and domestic servants was firm. A motherly tenderness and intense anxiety for her childrens spiritual welfare was constantly manifest. At times her somewhat feeble constitution was overtaxed by the worry and fatigue of providing for, and management of 12 to 15 in the house, besides having the chief anxiety to meet the financial difficulties which pressed heavily upon my parents at that time, when in consequence of my father’s ill health, and incapacity for business pressed very heavily upon her. For years she had the serious trial and fear lest they should not be able to honourably pay their just debts, which to both of my parents would have been a most severe trial. Thank God the result was better that their fears, but it was only averted by most rigid care and economy.

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