Chapter Three
Ethel’s Generation
The Children in the Portrait
The five children of Archibald and Ada — among them the small girl in the c. 1900 portrait, and the family’s bridge into living memory.
In the writing
This chapter is still being gathered
Ethel, Alfred, Pearl, Muriel and Lilian — the generation photographed beside their blind great-grandfather, carrying the line into the twentieth century. As records are drawn together, its story will be told here in full.
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