Monday 6 August 2012

My grandmother's church

On Sunday I went to church.  I went St James' Church where my Uncle Tom was baptised in 1921. It is probable that the family were regular members of the congregation as this was a period when churches were well attended and Sunday schools were full.

I sat at the back of the church and thought about my 35 year old grandmother, holding her new baby with an eight year old by her side. And my grandfather, did he sing with the same beautiful deep voice as my father? Who were the God parents?   Maybe Cissie's cousins: Teresa Dudden, John, Gertie or Emily Broomfield, or Margaret Morgan ,  the children of Tom George's sister Teresa, who lived on Rhondda Street, just up the up the hill. 


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