Dear Maria, My goodness, that was quick - I only sent it a minute ago. It's nice to hear from you again Thank you for your reply. Best wishes, Nora -----Original Message----- From: Maria Haines Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:45 AM To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Liverpool Mothers Hello Nora, A Simnel cake is a fruit cake (a bit like a Christmas cake but made for Easter), with a layer of marzipan in the middle. Maria On 31/03/2014 01:40, Nora Kevan wrote: > Dear Lynne and Sally. Thank you for your kind words. > > When we emigrated to Australia we were sponsored by the aunts mentioned > in my story. They both got married late in life and both lived to their > 90s. , Like me, they both lost their sight in old age. One of them Martha > lived to be 93 and almost till the day she died she would write write her > memories down for me in Texta crayons. > She remembers her mother telling her many details of her life. > One was that my grandmother Sarah told her she remembered her mother Ellen > Guy walking with her and her five sisters across the fields from Virginia > St. Bootle to visit their grandmother Mary Ann Guy nee Wilcock at > Lark Hill Lane Mansions where she and her husband were caretaker and > gardener. Ellen used to bake a Simmel Cake and the little girls would pick > wild flowers along the way to give to their grandmother. This would be in > the 1870s as Mary Ann Wilcock died in 1879 and her husband James Guy in > 1884. > > By the way does anyone know what a Simmel cake is? My aunt thought it was > a > spicy cake with a layer of marzipan on top. > > Regards, Nora. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynne > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 8:41 AM > To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Liverpool Mothers > > Oh, Nora, you did make me cry! > > Thanks for sharing that very touching story. > > Kind regards, > Lynne > > > Nora Kevan <kevanna@tadaust.org.au> wrote: >> >> >> I hope my contribution is not considered too long. >> >> I remember my paternal grandmother as a little woman who was a bit absent >> minded. She would look for her glasses until someone noticed she had >> tipped >> them up onto the top of her head. I lived with her and my grandfather and >> two unmarried aunts from the age of 7 when my mother died until 14 when >> my >> father married again >> .. She wasn’t a very good cook ,and I was always glad when one of the >> aunts >> did the cooking But she was a wonderful organiser. All her children had >> household chores, even the boys. >> >> Her name was Sarah Allerton, born 16 Jun 1871 , the youngest of six >> daughters of James Allerton and Ellen Guy. She was only six months old >> when >> her father died. On 31 Mar 1891 She married Richard Edwards b. 23 Jan >> 1870 >> at St. Marys, Walton on the Hill. They had nine children between 1891 >> and >> 1911. She died 22 Nov 1944. >> > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com