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© Mrs Helen Lawford

Inheriting mothers genealogy tracing back to a fifteenth century Northumberland family of cattle rustlers, can reveal later characters when Mrs Helen Lawford presents family album to feature past Huthwaite relatives introduced by her Goodall Great Grandparents.

Mr Thomas Goodall came from a coal mining family later relocated to Teversal. They afford his 1881 career starting off a 14 year old Pupil Teacher, continuing to live with parents beyond a matured 1891 full Trained & Certified School Teacher. Great Grandfather Thomas Goodall married a Great Yarmouth School Board Teacher Q2 1897, named Miss Alice May Greenstreet. Their Blackwell Road marital home near oldest Huthwaite schoolhouse was where Mr Goodall first features stood with pupil class years.

The 1902 opening of newer Huthwaite Council New Street schools appointed first headmasters office to Mr Goodall. Moving into a larger 'Silverton' named home numbered 50 Common Road lists 1911 household headed by Thomas 45. Housewife Mrs Alice May Goodall 42 thereafter mothered five surviving children naming Dorothy 12, Marjorie 10, Mary 8, Emily 7 and Herbert 4.

Eldest daughter Dorothy married George Bailey. Money theft from working colliery finance offices deeply embarrassed both proud families, who afforded them a Colham Green Post Office to encourage a distanced fresh start. They became affluent grandparents after raising five children named Keith, Beryl, Kathleen, Norman and Issy. Sender Mrs Lawford relates through mother Kathleen to also know of Huthwaite Bailey uncles Bill and WWI casualty Bernard actually shown backing grandparents wedding group photo.

Sisters Madge, Emily, and Mary never did marry, having apparently lost their fiances either through The Great War or of influenza. Mary became a chemist for Boots in Nottingham. Madge and Emily both taught locally. Madge became headmistress in one of the Huthwaite schools, who lost her love for an Italian prisoner of war doing farm work with disappearance returning home abroad.

Great aunts lived out their long years with auntie Beryl in West Wales. This helpfully explains location for antique bookshop keeper sharing find of Huthwaite family silk book mark mementos, beyond inherited spectacles from Pte Bernard Bailey possessions.