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Spanning the Decades: 1920s
Sarah Meyrick's second installment of Spanning the Decades showcasing her own family hertiage alongside characters within her new book The Restless Wave, available for pre-order now!
1920s
Oh dear… ‘Archie’ looks pretty forbidding in this photo. Another family member: in this case, Father Harold Adams, my great-grandfather on the other side of my family. He was the father of the woman Bobby married.
Have you ever been asked to introduce yourself in a group, coming up with a ‘fun fact’ about yourself that will be easy for others to remember? When that happens to me I enjoy telling the story of Father Harold. You can probably tell from the picture that he was an Anglo-Catholic clergyman. In truth, he was so far ‘up the candle’, as they say, that he called all five of his children ‘Mary’ in honour of the mother of our Lord. Including his son. (I also have a precious photograph of the five Marys, with their mother. All six look remarkably serene in the circumstances.)
Beyond that, I don’t know much about Father Harold. But his picture is inspiration for Father Archie, who features in The Restless Wave. Archie is the vicar under whose tutelage Edward serves his curacy in Oxford. He’s hard-working, faithful to his calling and passionately committed to serving the poor of his parish.
I suspect Archie, like Harold, could be pretty forbidding at times. Edward is certainly a little in awe of him. But I’m just as sure that his austere exterior masks a heart of gold.
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