The Christmas girls. Back row, L to R, Maud, born 1887, who did not marry, Ellen, the mother, Lily, later Nicholson, who stayed in England. Front row, second from L, Rose, married name Mauback, Nellie, later Herbie Goddard’s wife, The other girl is probably May, who married the first Barratt brother.Millie and Dolly, both later Barratts, are not in the photo.
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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