A Family in History: History in a Family, Part 1

From 1767, Gouldings from 1755 descendants, including Briscoes, to 2020,is more than just a family history. It is a social history.
It recounts attitudes to  Christian faith, Victorian morality and liberalism; drinking, gambling, antisemitism & racism, Home Rule, Leather Trade Benevolent Society; Liberal Reform Club, suffragettes, the scandal of a Canadian padre in WW11; the start-up of the RSPCA, medicine, the arts, architecture, paintings, music and theatre, transport:, servants, failed businesses and electrical inventions.
The family history spans eighteenth century Newcastle, country house groom, nineteenth century Dockland London and prosperity in the suburbs.
There are chilling first-hand accounts of surviving wars and depressions – not to mention a continuing narrative of personal difficulties of members of the Goulding and Nicholson families.
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Numerous stories bring the pages to life.
The mistake in Joe Nicholson's army records.
Bol’s lost Westminster Abbey painting submitted to Royal Academy.
Nurse Marjorie Nicholson’s death from Typhoid.
The contemporary accounts of the Kong Moon pirate attack that killed Howard Nicholson.
Letters of horse breaking from the Judsons in Australia.
Terence Goulding tried for drink driving.
Fred Goulding chatting with H G Wells.
Phyllis Hewkley, girlfriend of an eighty-year-old Fred Goulding
The mistake in 1879 of Charles Goulding’s surname being written as “Golden” in the parish records.
The sad note on the Wherwell burial records that great X2 grandfather Charles Goulding in 1816 had been "Found hanging by one of the…in the church am"
William Nicholson in 1767 choosing the faster route of a bond rather than having banns read out for his marriage to Margaret Weatherburn.
Hardback, 374 pages in A4, fully illustrated with many family trees that are also available on the internet.
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