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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 51: Holidays.

 MUM'S CHRISTMAS MEMORIES.


For this weeks post, I thought I would share a couple of my Mum's childhood memories of Christmas, just after the war.

One of those memories was the Christmas she awoke to find one of her presents was a cabinet her father had made for her. Her father was a carpenter by trade, at the time working for the Bank of Egypt in London. She was delighted with this, alongside the other gifts she had received. But when her parents joined her in they pointed out that there was another present on the shelf of the cabinet. When she opened this it was her first watch.

Christmas was an extended family affair and on Christmas Day, Mum, her parents and her Grandfather, Charles William Howe (1876-1957) were joined by her mother's sister and husband, Alice and Joe Scott (Alice Howe and Joseph Scott) and their 2 children Robert Anthony (b.1937), known as Tony and Lavinia Ruth(b.1939) known as Lyn or Vinia. Her father's friend Herbert Alexander Gray known as Dick and his wife Gladys nee Pitts and their son, Richard, born 1940 also joined the family for the festivities. Sadly Gladys died in 1948, of cancer. For a while Richard lived with Mum's parents, before returning to his Dad. Mum recalls all the young children putting on shows over Christmas to entertain the families.

 Lavinia Scott b.1939 (left) and Mum.

Mum and Richard Gray b1940

           
Robert Anthony Scott (Tony) b.1937





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