I also have the book, Whitsunday's Child, A Country In Pictures By Vera (Boulton) Punter. She is also a cousin of mine. Her daughter, Anna still lives in Malmesbury. Vera was born on Whitsunday, Mat 1913 in Malmesbury. When she was 12 years old when she got her first camera, a Kodak Box Camera. She would spend the rest of her life tak ing pictures. She mar ried Charles Punter , 16 Sep 1937 and they moved to a farm in Rodbourne, called Ponds Farm where the spent most of their life. The stories are from Vera and her granddaughter, Sara Haggerty wrote the book and used Vera's pictures. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliz Hanebury" <elizhgene@gmail.com> To: eng-wiltshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:38:23 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] A Country Child (1931) by Alison Uttley (was Bevis and Wood Magic ...) I have saved here "Round About the Little Steeple" the story of a Wiltshire Parson 1573 -1623 which maybe my holiday reading I also have a book written by a cousin Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures (Paperback) by Vera Punter (Author), et al. All about Malmesbury, it seems she was a photo fan from an early age and documented her life in a Cotswolds town <G> Eliz On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:01:42 -0000, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I just downloaded it from googlebooks <G> and I found Wood Magic at > > archive.org from a link at U. Penn > > > Again thanks for the leads <G> > > Hope you enjoy dipping into Bevis and Wood Magic, Eliz. > > I like books about the countryside in past times. > > I have A Country Child by Alison Uttley, which was first published in 1931. > > This novel is about a young girl, in Victorian times, growing up on a farm > in the countryside. Although set in Derbyshire, much of what is so vividly > described would have been familiar to our local ancestors of the time. > > The story includes a description of Christmas celebrations in a farmhouse > kitchen. > > The author drew on memories of her own childhood and they've made a lasting > impression on me as I have read the story again and again over the years > since I acquired the book in my own youth. > > The novel is by my side as I write as I am going to read Chapter 12 > December and Chapter 12 Christmas Day to get into the mood for Christmas. > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

And we then round it out with Rich and I being cousins <G>. We are all 3rd or fourth cousins (depending on how old we are and I will never tell *G*) and having fun following the adventures of the family. Eliz On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM, <richlewis4304@comcast.net> wrote: > > > I also have the book, Whitsunday's Child, A Country In Pictures By Vera (Boulton) Punter. She is also a cousin of mine. Her daughter, Anna still lives in Malmesbury. > > Vera was born on Whitsunday, Mat 1913 in Malmesbury. When she was 12 years old when she got her first camera, a Kodak Box Camera. > > She would spend the rest of her life tak ing pictures. She mar ried Charles Punter , 16 Sep 1937 and they moved to a farm in Rodbourne, called Ponds Farm where the spent most of their life. > > The stories are from Vera and her granddaughter, Sara Haggerty wrote the book and used Vera's pictures. > > > > Richard > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eliz Hanebury" <elizhgene@gmail.com> > To: eng-wiltshire@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:38:23 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] A Country Child (1931) by Alison Uttley (was Bevis and Wood Magic ...) > > I have saved here "Round About the Little Steeple" the story of a > Wiltshire Parson 1573 -1623 which maybe my holiday reading > > > I also have a book written by a cousin > > Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures (Paperback) > > by Vera Punter (Author), et al. > > All about Malmesbury, it seems she was a photo fan from an early age > and documented her life in a Cotswolds town <G> > > > > > Eliz > > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Josephine Jeremiah > <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:01:42 -0000, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > I just downloaded it from googlebooks <G> and I found Wood Magic at >> > archive.org from a link at U. Penn >> >> > Again thanks for the leads <G> >> >> Hope you enjoy dipping into Bevis and Wood Magic, Eliz. >> >> I like books about the countryside in past times. >> >> I have A Country Child by Alison Uttley, which was first published in 1931. >> >> This novel is about a young girl, in Victorian times, growing up on a farm >> in the countryside. Although set in Derbyshire, much of what is so vividly >> described would have been familiar to our local ancestors of the time. >> >> The story includes a description of Christmas celebrations in a farmhouse >> kitchen. >> >> The author drew on memories of her own childhood and they've made a lasting >> impression on me as I have read the story again and again over the years >> since I acquired the book in my own youth. >> >> The novel is by my side as I write as I am going to read Chapter 12 >> December and Chapter 12 Christmas Day to get into the mood for Christmas. >> >> Josephine >> >> -- >> Josephine Jeremiah >> www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message