Explaining Grandad' long walk 100 years ago.

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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	23 Nov 2019 14:47
	Fred didn't work on the farm very much, it wasn't their farm anyway, Grandad had been a shepherd there since he was seven and he was forty-two when Fred was born. He was a shepherd for something like seventy-five years. Fred's brother, Bill worked on the same farm for fifty-odd years. Fred aspired to greater things, he became a delivery boy for the village shop but I think he must have spent some time on the farm but never went back after he left the navy. He became a lorry drivers mate until h passed his driving test and started lorry driving. I think Nan might not have been surprised that I stuck by Fred, she was the nearest thing I ever had to a mother and looked after me until she died at sixty-five, when I was five. I have said before on here that any tiny bit Of decency in my character is entirely down to Nan.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26,359 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	23 Nov 2019 09:37
	A special day of special memories.
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 24,967 Send Message	LindainHerriotCountry	Report	23 Nov 2019 09:32
	Happy birthday to Fred, Ihope you are having a party. He will be there in “spirit”
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	23 Nov 2019 08:57
	"Like"!
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	23 Nov 2019 03:21
	Sharron, I did know that!! But you did keep him keep him going a lot longer than might otherwise have happened.
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	23 Nov 2019 02:50
	Your dad was possibly (I don't know his ranking in the family) a much appreciated son, there to help with the farm etc. I don't suppose his parents had an inkling of the role their grand daughter would have in the final years of their son's life.
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,477 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	23 Nov 2019 02:00
	Wow, Happy 100th Birthday to Fred! Sausage sandwiches all round! Lizxx
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	23 Nov 2019 00:19
	Ah, Sharron - but you kept him going for a very long time, with a useful life! :-D :-D
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	23 Nov 2019 00:00
	No, he is not still going, Sylvia. If he had been he would have been 100 today.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	22 Nov 2019 23:59
	wow! Happy birthday to Fred, and congratulations to you to keep him going for so long, you hard-hearted person you :-D
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	22 Nov 2019 23:51
	My poor old granddad had to walk the length of the village and back in bad weather on the night of 22/11/1919 because, on the 23/11 11919, Nan gave birth to the ond and only Fred. Yes, today would have been Fred's 100th birthday.

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