I would love to sit down with my paternal Ggrandmother and talk to her about her life and how she managed.
My GGM was widowed with 9 children after my GGF was lost at sea.
There are tales of her having her own garden plot and growing veg to sell to neighbours and taking in washing from big houses.
How did she do the wash and get them dried and pressed for returning them it must have been so hard for her.
She rented a 7 bedroomed house from a distent relative and opened a guest house for workmen and lived week to week when she first started but she made a go of it and ended up buying the house.
I would love to sit and talk to her about the struggle she had and how she overcame it.
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