Edith Skull
born
1876
Eversley,
Priory Avenue
Picture
from the SWOP
website
Reference
number BFP : 33317
I
lived here with my brothers,
I
had three sisters too,
My
parents rose in stature
Like
good chair makers do,
We
had a large old factory
Where
we could make the chairs,
My
brothers worked within it
And
would also sell our wares.
My
elder brother, Walter, died
When
he was still a lad
And
Percy, Charles and
Fred were left
To
help our grieving dad.
They
didn’t get along too well,
Fred
left to sell antiques,
And
Charles and Percy argued,
For
sometimes weeks and weeks,
So
when our father left the firm
For
his two sons to tend
It
didn’t bode too well for us
As
neither lad would bend.
And
so the firm faced bankruptcy
Unless
it could be sold
So
Ercolani bought it,
A
tale now often told.
Edith
was the eldest daugher of Charles Edwin and Georgiana
Skull. She married William Martin, bank clerk in High Wycombe, and
moved
away from the town.
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