Heirloom

OK, so I am a little behind in the #52ancestors challenge as I have been concentrating on my family history course.  However this topic appealed to me so I have gone back a couple of weeks.

It was a common practice in past eras to have a family bible which birth and death dates were recorded in.  How lovely it must be to have that.

Well just recently I discovered that my father had not a bible, but a small prayer book which belonged to my Great Aunty Nell (another Nell, not the ones I talked about in my Favorite Names post.  So many Nells).  What a wonderful feeling to get my hands on that prayer book and then to open it and feel the tissue thin pages.

And then more joy as I noticed inside the front cover, written in my great aunts hand, notations of the deaths of her parents and two of her brothers.