Family history

  19/52 Food and Drink: Annie Eliza Prince, 1884 -1967 I run in the back door and head for the bottom shelf of the cupboard to find a silver plated engraved biscuit barrel. It is round with a hinged lid and a handle. Inside are short bread biscuits.   Christmas dinners at grandma’s, a long table. Roast - probably beef, Yorkshire pudding. And then Christmas pudding and mince pies, dusted with icing sugar. There are threepences and sixpences in the pudding of course but one year I don’t get one and my bowl is whisked away and returned, sixpence in place!   Grandma, Annie Eliza Prince, was born in 1884 in Liverpool. Her baptism certificate says she was living at Crown Street and that her father was an ‘osler’, yet another occupation for James Prince who has been listed as a ‘fire work maker’   butcher,   coachman,   ‘gun powder maker’ and   horse keeper. Perhaps an Osler is the same as a coachman or horse keeper.   Crown Street was the location of the first intercity railway station betwe

Social Margery Rebecca Godlee I have struggled with ‘Social’. My grandmother, who we called ‘Dari’, was indeed ‘social’ in every sense of the word. It’s just that ‘social’ sounds somehow shallow and she wasn’t that. She was deep. I loved her very much and I think that made it hard to write about her life too. But here it is.   Marge and Bill had known each other since childhood. When she was 12 her brother wrote :   I’m surprised to hear that even a level headed parson’s son’s head was turned at the sight of your etherial (?) beauty and that he wanted to kiss you the first time he saw you. I recon that’s going the pace alright if you don’t.   In 1914, when she was 17, they got engaged. Margery Rebecca was the third child of Charlotte and Theodore Godlee and was born in 1895, the same year that women in South Australia won the vote. After this her mother had another three girls and two boys. When Marge was   12 in 1908, her father died from pneumonia and then, in 1910, the baby   brothe