Grandmothers' Birthdays (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, October 08, 2013, 23:22 (4066 days ago) @ suer

Hi Suer,
without in any way wishing to knock your grandmother, who I'm sure was a very wise lady.....my nan was also very intelligent, quickwitted and numerate to the very end; which was when we found out that according to the Registers she'd been celebrating the wrong "birth"date all her life, she was a year and two months out...
It also seemed strange to us when she didnt want to hold a Golden Wedding party - until years later when it became obvious to us all that her first born was conceived just a few months out of wedlock - hardly a sin for a popular close family but she presumably didnt want to "provoke" the memories of her lifelong friends.

Perhaps such an error was also true for Mabel, maybe she wasn't actually born that date at all, perhaps this belief was a result of her own illegitimate background.

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