It's interesting that, with some exceptions, most people have gone for ancestors of their grt.grandparents generation.... and so have I!
I can't decide between my paternal grt.grandmother who (when her Mother died) left school at 8 to cook, clean and keep house for her Father and 4 older brothers (the youngest of whom was her senior by 20 years)
or
my Gran's aunt. Born in 1853 she went to Canada alone in 1871, stayed 2 years came back to the UK, married and had 5 children. In 1909 her eldest son, James, went to Australia and, when her husband died a year later, Grace went out to join James. There was a 'falling out', so Grace moved away from him. 10 years later (at the age of about 67) she returned to the UK, bought a 'farm' (smallholding) which she worked alone until she was in her 80s. By this time, she and James were back on speaking terms, so she went back to Aus. to live with him and his family. There was yet another falling out so, in 1946 she set off to spend 3 years in New Zealand where another son lived! Around 1950 (aged 93) she decided she 'wanted to die at home' and returned to the UK - just in time for my christening in June that year. My last photo of her shows her playing on my swing with me, in my grandparent's garden, 2 months before her death - in 1954!
