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Carryer Family Stories
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Carryer Family Stories

Alan Charlton
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Read how the Carryer Family moved from Lincoln in 1700, to Leicester, Staffordshire and across the world.

Enjoy tales of valour and achievement: succeeding despite physical handicap; struggling for votes for women; surviving shipwreck; fighting in World Wars; working as nurses; creating original art.

Follow stories of missionaries to Canada and Australia; business success and failure; humorous anecdotes, such as the preacher claiming he had two heads; connections with Stan Laurel, Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov, the Pankhursts. Follow a bizarre Victorian divorce case. Wonder at an Ulsterman renouncing Queen Victoria to serve in the US Army and then becoming a priest in Her Church of England. Learn of the Carryer role in the World War Two "Dog In The Snow" story in Lebanon. Learn about trade in Charcoal Biscuits, indestructible underwear, handy guns for the ladies.

The book is written for the Carryer family around the world and to inform and entertain the general reader.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
28 February 2024
Pages
344
ISBN
9781805142584

Read how the Carryer Family moved from Lincoln in 1700, to Leicester, Staffordshire and across the world.

Enjoy tales of valour and achievement: succeeding despite physical handicap; struggling for votes for women; surviving shipwreck; fighting in World Wars; working as nurses; creating original art.

Follow stories of missionaries to Canada and Australia; business success and failure; humorous anecdotes, such as the preacher claiming he had two heads; connections with Stan Laurel, Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov, the Pankhursts. Follow a bizarre Victorian divorce case. Wonder at an Ulsterman renouncing Queen Victoria to serve in the US Army and then becoming a priest in Her Church of England. Learn of the Carryer role in the World War Two "Dog In The Snow" story in Lebanon. Learn about trade in Charcoal Biscuits, indestructible underwear, handy guns for the ladies.

The book is written for the Carryer family around the world and to inform and entertain the general reader.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
28 February 2024
Pages
344
ISBN
9781805142584

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