Good morning all. I don't know why I bothered to go to bed last night. I was so tired by 9 p.m. I went up, but came down again at 12.30 and was STILL awake at 4 a.m. with shoulder pain that paracetamol didn't touch. My neck and shoulder were aggravated when I had my MRI scan, and lifting boxes (I couldn't let Pam do it all) yesterday made it bad again. This morning I can barely croak, so have clearly picked up a bug over the weekend. I had to cancel my asthma review appointment and put it back a week.
Anyway, here is the interesting old recipe book I bought yesterday. A quality book with marbled end papers and margins, made and sold by Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield. I have found Edith Davy in the 1901 census at 10 Belvedere Road in Scarborough, which is a lovely big period house - the sort you need money to own, and the use of this expensive book means they were comfortably off. She was born in Sheffield in 1865 and married to Charles, a retired mechanical engineer. Age-wise, she would probably be Ruth's grandmother. Anyway, from Scarborough they moved to Devon, and in the 1911 census they are living in Knoll Cottage, Woodbury, Devon and a Maude Hosford (born Leeds, 1870, DiL, widowed, private means) and her son William 8 (b. Kensington) are staying there/visiting. I have found a picture of the beautiful manor house Ruth/her family lived in (now divided up into flats). Ruth Eleanor Hosford doesn't appear to have ever married. She was born 2nd November 1910 and died 13th May 2005 - so made it to 95. Her death was registered in the Torridge area of N. Devon and she is mentioned in Companies house 2002-05 as a director at a Barnstaple address, along with various of the Hartnoll family.
What an interesting find - and such neat handwriting! Lovely
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x