Product Description
The history of an ordinary English family—a factual account of six generations of the four branches of a close-knit working class family who all lived in North London by the beginning of the twentieth century. One hundred and fifty years of their lives, loves and family secrets that were never supposed to be uncovered. A true story based on family anecdotes and unstinting research.
From the Publisher
This readable book traces the history of an ordinary English family through six generations, complete with anecdotes, photographs and genealogical tables.
About the Author
Born in Edgware, Middlesex, Sandra Wynn has spent many years working together with her husband building up their successful English language school and travelling all over the world. After recovering from a serious car accident in 2000, she decided to work part-time concentrating only on the international marketing, which gave her the time to fulfill her ambition of writing a book. She has two adult sons and lives happily in Eastbourne with her husband Bob, commuting regularly to Spain to visit her granddaughter.
Excerpted from For Selina by Sandra Wynn. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Our family story starts in the spring of 1799; that year there had been a really bitter winter with a late spring, which had been one of the coldest for many years. George III was King of England and had not yet gone mad, although he had managed to lose the American Colonies. England was at war with France, where the monarchy had been deposed, and Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to become the First Consul.
Imagine our William Wynn, a small man, who lived in the Lower Thames Street area of London, on his way to his marriage to Elizabeth Martha Gass at St Giles Cripplegate Church, which is now in the centre of the Barbican in the City. He would have been wearing his winter greatcoat, as an icy cold wind would without doubt blow in from the Thames, and Elizabeth would almost certainly be wearing her best, or maybe her only winter dress. There would be very little money to spend on materials to make new clothes, as both the Wynn and Gass families appear to have come from the working classes.
Imagine our William Wynn, a small man, who lived in the Lower Thames Street area of London, on his way to his marriage to Elizabeth Martha Gass at St Giles Cripplegate Church, which is now in the centre of the Barbican in the City. He would have been wearing his winter greatcoat, as an icy cold wind would without doubt blow in from the Thames, and Elizabeth would almost certainly be wearing her best, or maybe her only winter dress. There would be very little money to spend on materials to make new clothes, as both the Wynn and Gass families appear to have come from the working classes.
