When thinking to write notes on Mouse’s life, it makes me realise how little I know. For people way back when - who I never met - I might feel happy to weave together some facts, and then draw some conclusions, and write it up as ‘their life story’. But for Mouse, who I knew,… Continue reading Mouse – Elizabeth Mary Hallas-Hill
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Mary Ann Pickering
I’d had it in mind to research the childhood of Mary Ann Pickering (his daughter) since the spring of 2024, and had been thinking about it on and off for ages before that. Mary Ann Pickering was Puss’s grandmother. Pretty much all I know about Mary Ann was that she was the young girl, who… Continue reading Mary Ann Pickering
Janet Gentles Foster
(This is the one who set sail for South America, with her violin, in 1920, to follow her heart.) Jenny, on the right, with her younger sister Grace Mini family fact file Jenny - bound for South America Jenny R.I.P. Jenny’s early years Mini family fact file Date of birth: Janet Gentles Foster, born 23… Continue reading Janet Gentles Foster
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