by eugenie

Created on: November 19, 2008

My Mother was an amazing woman and had a very happy life. She was born in a little town in Southern Ireland. Her Father died when he was just 29 years old of the 1918 flu which was a panademic in europe and killed millions. He died before she was born and she never knew him. She had one full sister. Her Mother was devasted because at this time you did not get any help from your government. You were on your own. After some years her Mother married again, this time to a much older wealthy man. He was a very good man and they had many happy years together and had a further three sons and two daughters. He loved my Mother like his own daughter and never treated her any different.

My Mother knew my Father as a child. He was very poor. His mother was admitted to a mental hospital suffering from post natal depression which in them days meant nothing,... you were just mad and locked away. His Father abandoned his whole family so my Father basically reared himself and his siblings. Things were very hard and many times he was hungry. My Mother who was living a life of luxury often fed him some bread out through her kitchen window when he was walking pass her house to his grannys. They often chatted and when they were old enough he walked out with her much to her family disaproval. After some months they fell in love although my Mother said she always loved him. My Mother became pregnant which in them days in Ireland was so serious. Usually unmarried Mothers were sent to homes run my nuns and they were treated like slaves and when their babies were born they were took from them and given to families who wanted children but where unable to have any. No paper work was ever done so these children were lost to their biological Mother forever. My Mother was lucky. Her Step Father would not allow her to be sent away.

My Father was so in love with my Mother that he asked her to marry him and she said yes. Her family disowned her. Her heart was broken but she loved my Father and could see no future without him. She married him in the back of the church at midnight. The priest refused to marry her at the altar because she was pregnant. Only two people turned up. Her sister, who was becoming a nun and his brother were their witness. No photographs. No reception. No white dress, but still she married the love of her life. She never had any regrets about marrying him. She left a very comfortable life to a very hard life. My Father was only a laborurer and many times had very little

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