Continuing in the same vein as my previous post…about my late great gran Bella, and her much troubled life around 1900 in Brighton in the UK. I had been studying her life in depth using ancestry.com Bella had become lost, she was the black sheep of her family, this is easy to see as the census gives it away. All her siblings were either workers or scholars and in the column it said so, not her, she had nothing next…..
Last night my eldest daughter text, “Mom, my lodger James has had a woman in the house whilst I’ve been away with work”. Lol I thought, she’s jealous, despite him just renting the room. The reason I laugh is that many years ago I had been her, meaning I had rented a room off in my first house for the same reason. Me and my lodger had ‘become an item’ and she and her sister are the living proof. She’s…..