George and Mary Millman returned to the Isle of Wight with their children Hepsie and Kitty to visit Mary’s family in Ryde. They saw Old St Boniface Church in Bonchurch, just before their ascent of St Boniface Down (see The Millman Letters)
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My great-great-grandparents, George and Mary Millman, visited the Isle of Wight in August 1892 with their daughters Hepsie and Kitty. That Christmas, Kitty received a beautiful new book as a school prize for Music and Drawing: Island Scenery: The Isle of Man, Isle of Wight and the British Islands, published that year by James B Knapp of London.
Here is an extract about the town of Ryde:
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Were doughnuts invented on the Isle of Wight? No one is quite sure, although the Island recipe developed independently of the Dutch version, olykoeks (oil-cakes), which...
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In 1892, my great great grandfather, George Millman, visited the Isle of Wight with his family. Here’s an interesting extract from his diary, describing a visit to St Mary’s Church, Brading:
However, on we walked until we reached Brading & immediately made for the place where we had tea last year & also arranged for the supply of hot water & cups & saucers & a nice room where we could all enjoy our Tea.
& whilst the good lady was boiling the kettle we went into the church cemetry & recited “Little Jane’s Grace” of whom we read so much about in “Annals of the Poor” by Leigh Richmond & while thus engaged the woman who cleans out the church intimated to us that if we desired it (& of course tickled the palm of her hand) she would show us over the church.
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