In an extensively illustrated talk, Jean Renwick discusses delving into libraries, archives and on-line sources to record the lives of the descendants of Elizabeth Addy, the Doncaster woman memorialised in the brooch inherited by the author. In The Mourning Brooch Book One An ending. A beginning., the story runs from 1849 to 1876 as Elizabeth’s widower struggles to care for their two little girls and see them grow up, marry and have children of their own. In Book Two of The Mourning Brooch the story takes the reader beyond Yorkshire to the Continent, USA even Constantinople, revealing the joys and sorrows of life as well as some scandal.
If you own any mourning jewellery you may bring to show us before the talk starts.
Book your FREE place for this talk here: https://www.chfhs.org.uk/the-mourning-brooch-with-jean-renwick-448
