Gift for my Great Grandmother - What's Yours?

[jaybelnz]

Yes Susie, finding that claim was quite an insight into their family life at that time. I'm inclined to agree that the term "Traveller" was used lightly in this case, due to the generational family profile I had worked up prior to finding this particular record!  .

In later years, he and his wife were living with one of their sons, (my gggfather) his son's wife and their children in what is now a listed house in The Conservation Area of Stockwell in London!

So thank you for your thoughts!  Much appreciated.

Jeanne

[ThrelfallYorky]

Do you know, I never thought of a traveller as a roaming person, when I found one in a linked line? I sort of assumed he was a salesman who went round getting orders .... as indeed he was ... for wines and spirits! It shows how blinkered I could be that I never even thought of the other sort! Memo to self: ALWAYS think around an idea.

[Countryquine]

I can remember my mother, more than 50 years ago, washing at the deep sink in our wash-house.   She would often have chilblains and hacks (cracked skin) on her hands.   As her granny (my great-granny) would tell her she 'might have been born a lady, but was never needed', I know that mum, my grannies, my great-grannies and generations back from them were hard-working women - so handlotion and ointment for chilblains and cracked skin would be my gift to all of them.   Of course, if it was allowed, a wonderful automatic washing machine would be even better.  I often think how lucky I am to have such an invention - what a boon!

[jaybelnz]

Do you know, I never thought of a traveller as a roaming person, when I found one in a linked line? I sort of assumed he was a salesman who went round getting orders .... as indeed he was ... for wines and spirits! It shows how blinkered I could be that I never even thought of the other sort! Memo to self: ALWAYS think around an idea.

  I had one like that too, shows up in a marriage record in another family line as "Boot and Shoe Traveller"!  I thought maybe he might be a traveller - cobbler, but he actually worked for Clark's Shoes!

[Rosinish]

I have to consider myself very lucky in regards to one of my g g/m's.

Her daughter was my father's mother. My g g/mother had my grandmother in the same Croft house she died in (g g/m)

My g/mother was away for a spell to the mainland but returned to the family home & looked after my g g/m until her death.

I have been there many times & actually lived in that house with my g/m for 1 yr although holidayed there annually (prior to her death) so I have a good knowledge & feel of the life & times.

I am assuming my g g/m did her washing & drying of clothes in a similar manner as my g/mother who used a wood/glass" scrubbing/wash board" & dried items over large rocks, pinned down with smaller ones so the washing didn't escape 

I would imagine my g g/m didn't have a wash board but used a tin basin/bath & stones (in the same manner as a wash board)?

My gift to my g g/m would be a Wash Board, a Hand Wringer & an "inside" tap as the only tap was located outside & water had to be heated on a peat fire.

I have those memories although my g g/m was gone before I was born but passed on to my g/m & those memories are cherished 

Annie

[LouisaS]

I also met my Gt Gran, a formidable woman, who scared me.   My sister went to her house with my grandfather who was her son-in-law, she loved him and scared my sister.  She had a big family, I wondered if there was any joy there!