RE: A Pop-up WeWrite Contest: I Married A Monster
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Thanks for sharing this @free-reign. It must have been quite dramatizing for you worrying about her. I know what it means to have a sick mother. I was the oldest child and witnessed it all.
My mother was ill with heart trouble all her life fro having rheumatic fever as a child. After each child‘s birth she got worse. She survived 2 heart operations and died at 66. I sometimes think about this and how now I am older than my mother.
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Your mother had several kids, right? My sister, who is 2 years older than I am, had rheumatic fever at some point when she was very young, but she's been pretty healthy her whole life otherwise. But she only had 2 kids. I wonder if having more kids was just too hard on your mom, and if it probably would have been drastic to my sister's health also if she'd had more kids.
Yes I was the oldest of five kids. I think the hard work required to keep the household running and family fed was not good for her. Lack of money would add to the stress.
Mom was a war bride and coming to Canada and seeing how Dad’s mother and the other women worked she tried to keep up and never told anyone she was ill.
I wrote her war bride story in 2006 and it is on file at pier 21 at the Museum in Halifax Nova Scotia where she ( and I) first arrived in Canada to join my father. I’ll leave you the link but don’t feel you have to read it. :)
https://pier21.ca/content/the-immigration-story-of-catherine-collicott-irish-war-bride
I just checked the story and see the photos have been eliminated and the story ends abruptly without the last few paragraphs. I guess it was too long. Lol.
My maternal grandfather came to the US from Ireland and married my grandmother. I never got a chance to meet him though, as he died before I was born. I found a picture of the ship you and your mom came to Halifax aboard. They changed its name to "Captain Cook." It appears the photo is not in the public domain though, which is kind of strange.
Gosh and begorra it’s nice you have a drop or two of the blood from the old sod in ye. ☘️ I wonder what part of Ireland your grandfather came from. Was it during the potato famine or before?
I never met my grandfathers. They were deceased before I was born.
I don’t know why they left the pictures out of the war bride story. They had them there at first. Maybe so many stories they were trying to save space.