Mrs Major, who died recently in hospital, spent her childhood in Sands Lane, where her brother still lives in their parents’ old house. After her marriage she and her husband lived in Old Post Office Lane, where they brought up a family of nine children. Mrs Major belonged to that generation of mothers who succeeded in managing a large household while at the same time working hard on the land. Indeed, a lifetime shared with her husband both in the home and alongside him in the fields must have made her widowhood a heavy burden to bear. She was fortunate in having many of her family living close by, and during the last weeks of her life she went to live with her daughter in Green Leys. We send our condolences to her family.
Published in the April 1975 parish magazine.