In search of the family

  ALICE ESTHER EMMA PITTS 1903-1978   Permission required to reuse photograph. . I have started to write this blog post many times but given up on each occasion. My immediate family’s relationship with my grandmother was not the easiest. She was not the happiest of ladies and had become increasingly bitter as the years past. But there are many circumstances within her life that could have contributed to this, my own memories of her are not the happiest. But to counterbalance this when speaking with my cousins that met her have fonder memories. Alice was the 2 nd child and eldest daughter of William Richard Pitts and Eliza nee Deaney born on the 29 th Jun 1903. Until I began researching my family tree, I was unaware that ‘Granny’ was 1 of 7 children, being aware, only of a younger brother Bill, who I remember visiting in his grocery shop in Rickmansworth. My mother, however, vaguely recalled Granny mentioning a sis...