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I have managed to upload two stories to the Granny's Tales website this month. The first is the story of my great great aunt, Fanny Amelia Ellington née Woolgar. No one spoke of Fanny, although much was said about her siblings. She was born in Highgate, grew up in Dulwich, married in Hastings and then returned to south London. During her life, she spent time in three different asylums. She leaves no living descendants. The second story is that of Thomas Baker. I discovered Thomas recently, when I was trying to identify how I was connected to a DNA match. Thomas was my 3x great grandmother's brother and they grew up in rural Sussex during the agricultural depression of the early nineteenth century. Thomas was transported to Tasmania for life in 1830 and so far, is the only transportee that I have found on my family tree.


You can read their stories here.



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Updated: Dec 18, 2024

It has been a bit of an effort but there are two new additions to the site this month. The first is the story of my great-grandmother, Clara Dawson, from her birth in 1858 until her marriage in 1886. Mrs Beeton's instructions to housemaids feature. You can read it here.


I have also put together all the school and Sunday school prizes that I was able to find still lurking in family possession. The story is here.

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Finally, after three years, 14,000 words, 95 pages, 130+ footnotes and 70+ illustrations, the story of Ivy Gertrude Woolgar 1893-1863, my Granny, is finished. You can download it here but you do need to be patient as it is a large file so takes a while to download. She lived through a period of immense change, saw six monarchs on the throne, revolutions in transport and communications and two world wars. Her life in a London suburb was typical in may ways but her story is unique.


For good measure, I have also added some memories of the few years that I spent in Aston Clinton, in Buckinghamshire in the 1980s. You can find that account here.


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