William Jeremiah and Ellen Christmas, Ellen died in 1955. In addition to the five girls, she also bore three boys, all of whom died young. Freddy died aged 2 weeks in 1912, William two weeks later, aged 2. The story is told that Ellen walked the boys to Petersfield two days before Freddy’s death. A robin hopped all the way just behind them, which was seen as a harbinger of the death of the two boys.
These are family photographs of the Christmas family. The parents, William Jeremiah and Ellen Christmas had two sons, who died young, and five daughters. One, Nellie, married herbie Goddard, later the "Mayor' of East Meon (chairman of both the Parish Council and the Village Institute Committee). Three married Canadians, and one of their descendants is Dr Mike Barratt, space doctor and astronaut.
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