Reference: Adrian Sandes - Chapter 1 Annex A, Part 3, Page 5-02
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Grace Millicent (0202) was born at Westwood, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, London, on 3 April 1875. As a girl, she was pretty and graceful, fond of music and literature, and quietly sociable. In 1895 she came with her parents to live in Weymouth. Here she soon took up work at St John’s Church, taught infants and girls in school, and helped with religious activities generally and particularly with missionary work. In 1914 she became a VAD nurse, and on 26 May 1915 she was married at Weymouth to The Rev Alfred Mussen MA TCD, but they had no children. She died of cancer at Weymouth on 18 May 1954, and he in 1962.
They were always most kind to me, and as a boy I stayed with them at Chilcompton, where Alfred was the vicar, and where my cousin Tony and me were caught by a farmer jumping innocently about on his haystack and led ignominiously by our ears to the vicarage for chastisement.Eva Mary (0203) was born at 22 St Paul’s Road, Bradford, Yorkshire, on 21 June 1878. On 15 May 1903 she was married at Weymouth to Charles Gaskell Falkner MA, by whom she had two sons, Thomas and John, and three daughters, Drusilla, Christiana and Elizabeth. As a girl of ten she was described as ‘a pretty little dear, but with a strong temper’. Later, she played the mandolin and was a keen cyclist, like her father. She died at Weymouth on 19 April 1968, possibly as a result of a cat’s bite a few months earlier. My mother recalled her as happy, gay, affectionate and generous, and devoted to my father. I remember her in the same way, and for her great Christmas parties. My sister and I also remember her kindness in leaving almost £6,000 in trust to her daughter Elizabeth for life, and then to be divided between us. But when we received the bequest in 2006, we were horrified to find that it was worth much less than nearly 40 years before, and infinitely less in buying power. Elizabeth however kindly compensated us to an extent from her own will. The motto is, never ignore money - I should have checked up periodically on the value of the Trust.