I quite often talked to Mum about her own mother and father, but first will provide Mum’s written account. This was written in the “care home”, in a book from me to you, that my late sister Hilarie had given her.
Mum wrote:
“My mother was quite a beautiful woman and was well liked. But my mother was a bit on the snobbish in her views.
My Dad was a lovely man. He never told me and my sister Sheila to change our ways or did not ever tell us off.
He was a very clever man. His both parents had died before he was thirteen. He was brought-up then by a sister – Esther and helped him financially by his elder sister Mary, who lived in London. She paid for him to be an apprentice and he was able to join the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, where in the Marine Surveys Department he rose to Chief Marine Clerk. During the war he held a very secret position in which he was unable to give away any secrets which would affect anything to do with the war.”
Begun 22 March 2021
Joan Boughey Recalled 