My Other Great AuntThere were three sisters, all named after daughters of Queen Victoria, living in the big house. Beatrice was the eldest, born I guess around 1900 she would have been expected to get married in the 1920s, but blessed with an unprepossessing... See More »
My GrandmotherI remember my paternal grandmother. She died many years ago now at a great advanced age. A wrinkled, domineering old crone manipulating the family with talk of her share of the family fortune. The family had gone from pitmen to owners of the most... See More » (+1)
My Other GrandmotherI always thought of my family as boring. A boring middle class family in boring Middle England. Where were all those Celtic ancestors, fighting Slavs, romantic Frenchmen that everybody else seemed to be descended from. As far as I could see every... See More » (1)
