Week 2 #NFHM2017 Blogging Challenge - Careful He Might Hear You
This is my contribution to Week 2 of the #NFHM2017 Blogging Challenge - Careful He Might Hear You . I've been inspired by Pauleen Cass' post about the orphans in her family. While technically not orphans, my maternal grandmother and her twin sister were placed in the Randwick Destitute Asylum at the age of 3. Their mother - Kate Amelia Forfar (nee Ellis) died on 31st December 1905 at Denison Street Arncliffe. My maternal great-grandmother Kate (Kitty) Amelia Forfar (nee Ellis) Kate had four children at that time - the eldest was Ernest Henry aged 6, then Dorothy Emily aged 4, then the twins aged 3 - Grace Isabella (Belle) and Helen Kate (Kit) - my grandmother. There was a younger child Walter William but he died earlier in the year from asphyxia. The four children were admitted to Randwick Asylum on Saturday 24 February 1906 by their father Walter William Forfar of Denison Street Arncliffe. They were discharged seven years later...