Grandfathers Memoirs

[Jeff Guyett]

My Grandfather did a memoirs of his early life in Hounslow (from 1908 -1920) before his death in 1999
What would be best to do with it? add it to the online tree, social media or local history society?, what have you done?

Jeff

[MollyC]

Offer a copy to your Local Studies Library.

[cwatterson]

Good idea about the local studies. For a similar vintage of memoirs (early 20th C memories set down to paper in 1990s), wondering if anyone has done this but left out some of the more personal family commentary? (children/grandchildren of those discussed still about!)

I did transcribe and send on to family members for their reading and records (maybe should have printed out copies!)

[Erato]

My grandfather wrote a fairly lengthy account of his boyhood in rural Marquette County Wisconsin from about 1877 to 1900.  I digitized it and put it online at the Marquette County Genweb site because, in a somewhat disorganized way, it gives a detailed description of life on a family farm during that time period and because it mentions other members of the community by name and relates some anecdotes about them.  The fools at the county Genweb site called it a diary, but it wasn´t.  It was recollections written many years later.  I hope some people have found it useful or at least interesting.

http://wigenweb.org/marquette/ennisdiary.html

[Andrew Tarr]

My m-in-law, who died 20 years ago, contributed to a compilation of memories put together as a millennium project by her early school in Newcastle, with plenty of photos.  Maybe one of your local schools would be worth asking ?

[Jeff Guyett]

thanks , food for thought, I have put some up on the The Hounslow, Heston and Isleworth Group (for Memories) Face book page with a very postive responce - would it be worth contatcing the Family tree Magazines?

[ggrocott]

Hiya,

My family also lived in Hounslow.  Names Holloway 1912 - 1970s, Penduck aka Penduck Wells 1900 to 1950s.  My great uncle Edwin William Penduck married Lilian Ethel Guyett, any relation?  I don't think they had any children.  Are there any mentions of these families in the memoirs?

My grandad also wrote memoirs about their time there, although mostly the memoirs concentrate on his service in the first and second world wars. I have transciptions.

Gill

[Jeff Guyett]

hi Dont have Lilian Ethel in my tree - do you know her parents?

[ggrocott]

I have Lilian's parents as Samuel Guyett 1870-1945 and Charlotte Clark(e) born c 1872 Isleworth