The Goodliffe Family of Lambley Lodge, Rutland
Mary - Fourth daughter of Thomas and Mary GOODLIFFE
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Lion GOODLIFFE
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Thomas GOODLIFFE===========v===========Ann CURTIS
1722-1810 1754 1726-1792
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Thomas William Elizabeth Ann Sarah
1756-1829 1759- | | |
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Mary ARNOLD Stephen BLACK William CURTIS George ROYCE
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Elizabeth Mary Thomas Anna John William James William Mary Daniel Arnold Sarah
1792-1830 1793-1793 1794-1816 1796-1886 1798-1864 1799-1799 1800-1868 1801-1854 1803-1825 1805-1890 1807-1888 1809-1885
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Samuel John Elizabeth Elizabeth Bridget Mary Ann James
RICHMOND CULPIN STOKES ANDREWS NEWBOLD/MAJOR ATKIN SPEED ANDREWS
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Mary Goodliffe was born 4 June 1803 in the family home of Lambley Lodge. She was the second child to be named "Mary". Thomas and
Mary had named their first daughter "Mary" when born on 11 October 1793 but the child had died the same day.
Mary's birth was recorded at the Baptist Chapel Barrowden and Morcott. |
At 17 years old Mary tried to establish a school for young girls at Lambley Lodge. She advertised in the local papers and according to
her brother Arnold she gathered a few boarders. The 1819 advertisement is interesting for the cost and for the list of items each scholar
was to provide. (Note the cost of £14 in 1819 is about £1300 in 2020 currency. Her prices rose so in 1822 £16 was equivalent
to about £2100 today.)
Stamford Mercury 10 December 1819. |
Leicester Chronicle 29 June 1822. |
Leicester Chronicle 27 December 1823. (Click on images for larger version) |
According to Arnold the Lodge proved too small so she moved the school to Denman St Nottingham. However her health failed
and she returned to the Lodge, where she died 29 June 1825, aged 22 years.
From Arnold's Memoirs - pages 44-46.
"Next on the list is my beloved sister Mary, born in 1803. She was endowed with a mind intelligent, quick at learning, and highly sensitive,
enshrined in a body interesting, but feeble and consumptive. She early manifested a devout gentle, spirit, in sympathy with the teaching
of Christ. My mother perceiving the tendencies of her mind to intellectual pursuits, did what her circumstances would admit, to cherish
her aspirations, giving her the advantage of a good training to fit her to be an educator of others. She was, by her intelligence
and her sympathy for the young well adapted for that important work. She had a few boarders at the Lodge, but the unsuitableness of the
house prevented it becoming an increasing school. So by invitation and arrangement she came to Nottingham in 1824 to rooms in her brother
William’s house, but owing to an utter dissimilarity of mental, social and general characteristics of mind, existing between her William’s
wife, the enterprise resulted in utter failure, and misery to my sensitive sister Mary. I well remember her crying out in the agony of her
heart “Oh Arnold, our brother William will never know the true love and tenderness of a true woman’s heart”. She gathered no number of
scholars, and soon decided to leave, and took a little new house in Denman St. Radford, where she was gathering a nice school. But alas her
severe trials and disappointments, acting upon her feeble constitution soon prevented her being able to continue her school, although my
youngest sister Sarah came to assist her. She soon had to give up and my brother Daniel fetched her home to die. We two brothers owe much
to her tender loving teaching, and example. For years I went to look at the little house in Denman St., where a true and loving sister had
often spoke words of wisdom, caution and kindness to me. Her influence tended to promote intelligent devout piety in us younger members of
the family, and indeed in all with whom she came in contact. She died filled with the joyful hope of a blessed resurrection to eternal
life, in the 22nd year of her age. A loving child, a tender sister, a devout Christian."
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Last updated: 28 July 2021
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