Today would have been my Granny’s 130th birthday. As I mentioned recently, for the past couple of years I have, intermittently, been trying to write her biography. It is still very much a work-in-progress but I thought it was a good day to prove to the world that I have actually done something towards this. It is probably of no interest at all to anyone but me and my direct descendants but you never know who might want to read the story of growing up in a south London suburb around the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries. So here is the beginning, which takes you up to her leaving school and being about to start work and meet her future husband.

This is 20% of her life; I am hoping it is significantly more than 20% of the finished biography but who knows? I then have to concentrate on my mother (my father’s story is written but needs adding to), three more grandparents, eight great-grandparents, fifteen great great grandparents (one is done) ……. I may be some time. I do also have a commissioned book to complete first arghhh.

I’ve not done a looking back on last year/looking forward to this year post but I do hope I might achieve some of this in 2023, as well as finishing the above mentioned book of course and continuing to help develop the Forgotten Women website and work on my other family and local history interests, oh and get a personal family history site ready to reveal to the world and there’s always more Cornish to learn. Not sure life is going to get any less hectic.