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[Carriemac]

New thread - can I lick it off by asking wat to wear to a confirmation this Friday? Winter or spring clothes ?I fear I’ll be perished but I think the family will be in spring dresses ( I’m Godmother )

There were four people living in four rooms in my present house. The female head of the household, who was already there in 1911, her trainee, and her half-orphan (mother dead) niece and nephew.

One of her jobs was keeping other rooms in the house clean and ready for people who met there regularly, the other one was dressmaking. She also kept a vegetable garden and raised poultry. A remarkable woman, tough, a carer who refused to let her niece be put in an institution (and kept her nephew until he was finished with primary school (so possibly 14).

As I said elsethread, one of my great grandmothers birthed 16 children. They worked, those women.

Thank you @DeanElderberry, they really did. I'm in admiration of them.

In the case of my great-grandmother, she lived a few doors away from her mother and sisters, three unmarried women who lived at home. I'm assuming they helped support her. One of those ladies was a midwife (or at least acted as a midwife!) and delivered her twin nieces, a home birth. You had to be strong and able in those days!