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No Time to Grieve

My 2x great grandmother suffered untold loss in her life. Of 13 children, 7 died young. She had no time to grieve one before becoming pregnant with the next.
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Maria Joy, 1843-1894
Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…
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Remembering Nellie

Honouring my great-grandmother Nellie Sinclair, nurse.