The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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vigorous. In due time my lamb became a mother and for two years had couples, two of which went to the London market and made 49/- each leaving me a nice little sum after paying my father a nice small amount for joycing. They and the two others, and other little speculations, with savings in my mother’s keeping amounted to about £15. When I came to Nottingham which came in very useful besides forming a habit of carefulness and thrift. I am somewhat forestalling my ordinary narrative. My mother regretting the little opportunity I had of school training in 1820 made arrangements for me to go for ½ a year to the Rev E. Creatons school as a boarder. There were about ½ dozen lads. The instruction was fair for the times, but 3 of his pupils were immoral, bad fellows, the eldest boy especially for profanity and vice, was distressingly bad. I have many times

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