Obituary - Daisy nee Sullivan GOATCHER

In place of an obituary, these brief notes are presented.

B. London, ENGLAND
L. Mississiquoi, Cowansville Co., QC, Canada

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Very little is known about Daisy's parents. Her mother was Elizabeth SULLIVAN, who was taken advantage of by a traveling salesman of East Indian descent. Daisy never spoke of her family, and probably came to Canada to get away from the family shame.
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Daisy was working for Dr. COTTON before she married Philip GOATCHER.
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Note that Daisy and Philip lived in Regina, SK for two different periods, once around 1915 and then again in
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Autobiography - Daisy (nee SULLIVAN GOATCHER (1884-1970)
[notations by David KC COLE are in square braces]

[The original autobiography is stored in the archives of David KC COLE with the title "AutoBio_DSullivan.txt"]

My earliest recollections were when my mother died when I was nearly nine years old. I had a half-brother who was three when my mother died. My stepfather [Mr. Tom TAMPLING] was a cab owner and driver. He used to leave us at home when he was driving his cab. I used to have to take Tom [my half- brother] to school and then give him something to eat at noon and at supper time. It mostly was bread and what we call[ed] dripping, which was fat from the roast of meat that we had each Sunday, when my father cooked it for us. I know he used to cook a meal for us during the week but we chiefly lived on bread and dripping.

After a few months he took us to live at Bandley Heath with his bed-ridden sister who had a daughter who lived with her and took care of her. I or rather we had a mile to walk to school, we took our lunch, and I remember my [half-]brother did not like the currant turnovers, so he gave me his as well as my own.

When I was 14 years old my dad [my stepfather, Mr. Tom Tampling] came and took us back to London, he had married again [To Rose ?] and there was a little girl and a boy. My stepmother [Rose] and I did not get along well, so I went to service, coming home to visit occasionally. One time a cousin [Jack CHAPMAN] from Canada came to visit us and I met him and he suggested I go to Canada. So I saved my money ready to go. Then I had to have an operation in hospital and when I was out again, my stepmother had to go in and I went home and looked after the home and spent the money I had saved, on the home.
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for the rest of the autobiography visit 
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=davidcole3&id=I00061
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[Daisy was always willing to play games with her grandchildren, teaching many of them how to play chess and other games as well. She was known to her grandchildren as "Granny Goatcher". She attended David COLE's marriage to Yvette RICHARD in Jonquiere, Quebec in 1966. Daisy died in 1970 while staying with her daughter Hazel [nee GOATCHER, HIBBARD] in Sarnia, ON, Canada.]

Daisy's children:
Marion nee Goatcher COLE is Grave Memorial# 41647967.

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