My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 8 (March 28 - April 14 )

Hoogerzeil, Hitchings and Healey family members in Beverly, Massachusetts
Date unknown

This is the 8th installment of my grandmother's diary from 1920.  Her name was Gertrude Hitchings (1905 - 2001), and she was living on Elliott Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.  The diary is a tiny 3", and every Monday I publish a new section, with transcriptions of the tiny handwriting.  You can read the first installment HERE.  I'll post more of this diary every week for Amanuensis Monday.

[Pages out of order]

Sun. Mar. 28, 1920

Got up at 8.30 had break

fast went to church.  Ma

and Pa went down to

Nana’s after dinner. I went

for a little walk with Eunice & Rozella

Home all evening played the

Victrola Ma home 8.15 bed at 9.30

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Monday 29

Got up at 6.45 went to

school came home at

1.15 stayed home all

the afternoon. Stayed

home all evening and

played games.  Pa over

to Russell’s went to bed 9.45

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Tuesday 30

Got up at 7.00 went

to school got home at 1.15

worked awhile and then went

down A&P with Marion

stayed at home all

I ??? went to bed 9:30

NOTE:   Here Gertrude goes to church, which was a rare event according to her diary.  I don't know which church she attended.  Her parent's went to "Nana's", which would have been her mother's mother, Mary Etta (Healey) Hoogerzeil, who lived on Bartlett Street near the harbor. She mentions her sister, Eunice, and friends Rozella and Marion.  Russell is her newly married brother, who lived in Lynn. 

[missing pages]

TUES. APR. 6, 1920

                          Fair Windy

Got up at 7.00 went to

school came home at 1.15

had dinner, stayed home all

the afternoon.  Ma went Salem

Pa went to Helen’s got supper stayed.

Pa drown on jury

Home alone all evening and

went to bed at 8.45 PM

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WEDNESDAY 7

                                 Snow

Got up 7.00 went to school

snowed hard this AM came

home at 1.15 had dinner stayed

home all afternoon. Had

supper and stayed

home all evening went

to bed 8.00

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THURSDAY 8

                      Windy

Got up at 6.45 AM went

to school got home at

1.15 Nana up all day

Stayed home all afternoon and knitted

After supper went pictures with Ellen

And Brick.  Home 10.45 bed at 11

NOTE:   On these pages Gertrude started to note the weather, which continues for most of the rest of the diary.  There are many missing pages in this section, and some of the pages are no longer sewn into the binding.  Pa went to visit Helen, the eldest daughter who lived nearby, but later moved to Weymouth.  Gertrude mentions, knitting, which was her lifetime hobby until she was in her late 80s. 

FRI. APR. 9, 1920

                      Fair

Got 7.15 went to school

had assembly home at 1.15

Helen & baby up.  Took the

baby down A & P after dinner

Ellsworth came up to supper

Mill & Eunice gone to pictures. Helen

Went at 8.00 home all evening bed at 8.45

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SATURDAY 10

                         Fair

Got up at 7.30 had

breakfast worked around the

house all day.  Eunice over North B.

Mr. Lowell came up

at ?? After supper went to

Harold H???’s party had swell time

home 12.15 went to bed at 12.30

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SUNDAY 11

                            Fair

Got up at 9.00 had break

fast home all the morning

Went to walk after dinner.

After lunch went to walk with Eunice

and Alice.  Lou & Mrs. Hall up in

afternoon.  Went to bed at 9.30

NOTE: Here Gertrude's sister, Helen was visiting with her baby.  Apparently Gertrude took the baby for an outing to the A&P (the local grocery store).  Her two sisters Mill [Mildred] and Eunice went "to the pictures" [the moving picture shows].  The next day Eunice went to North Beverly.  I can't figure out Harold's last name, but he had a "swell" party. 

MON. APR. 12, 1920

          Cloudy

Got up 6.30 had breakfast

went to school home 1.15.  Went

down Ella’s 4.30.  Got supper

Marion, Ella up.  Ma & Pa

gone over to Russell’s

Eunice down to Helen’s

Went to bed at 10.45 PM

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TUESDAY 13

            Rain

Got up at 6.45 had break

fast went to school

home 1.15  home all afternoon

Rained hard all day

Went down Marion’s

after  supper Ma & Pa over

Butlers – I went to bed at 9.30

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WEDNESDAY 14

                 Fair

Got up 6.45 went to school

7.45.  Went to Helen’s to dinner

Took the baby and all after

noon home 5.45  Home all

evening went to bed at 9.30

NOTE:  Gertrude mentions her friends Marion and Ella.  Her parents are at brother Russell's in Lynn, again, and her 17 year old sister is with her married sister Helen on Tuesday. Gertrude went to Helen's on Wednesday.  

Part One  posted December 5, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-monday-my-grandmothers-diary.html

Part Two posted December 12, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-monday-my-grandmothers-diary_12.html   

Part Three posted December 19, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-grandmothers-diary-part-3.html   

Part Four posted December 26, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-grandmothers-diary-part-4.html   

Part Five posted January 2, 2017

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-5.html   

Part Six posted January 16, 2017

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-6.html  

Part Seven posted January 23, 2017
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-7.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 8 (March 28 - April 14 )", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 30, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-8-march-28.html: accessed [access date]).