Memories of Cornwall / A Far Distant Time!

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I have, in my possession, three poems from an 1800‘s woman who used to write for her own pleasure now and then. She was a slim black haired lady who tied her  long hair back with a band.

 

She had one daughter. Her daughter went on to produce a family and their descendants are still alive and well in Cornwall today.

 

Her history was that she was of a family in Canada who didn’t do too well having previously moved over there from Great Britain.

 

She, as daughter, came back to Britain alone and took up residence in a semi abandoned farm cottage. Later on she became pregnant and had a baby daughter in that same cottage.

 

The Cottage was on the Cornish Moors and the loneliness of a stand alone stone cottage, is one of the major  incentives for poetry writing, especially in places such as Bodmin Moor.

 

I have three of the poems and her descendant family also hold more of these poems, of hers, over in Cornwall.

 

I’m putting these three poems on this website because I feel that they are worth sharing. Also because I couldn’t think of any other way of sharing them other than on here:-

 

 

Andrew Siddle                            15/06/21

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