I was raised my grandmother, as she was before me. Because I didn’t have a mother, my grandmother didn’t have a mother either. She along with her siblings were all raised by their older sister Sarah Yon. My grandmother was a loving kind woman who installed good behaviour,love, kindness and underderstanding in me, she has made me the person that I am today. My grandmother had a hard and difficult life, her first husband Rubert died age just twenty-five years old leaving her with three small children. She gave her secord born son Cyril to her late husbands family to raise, while her sister Sarah cared for her older son Mitchel, she kept her youngerst daughter Lilian. My grandmother married again, to my grandfather Fred Henry. My grandfather was a violent bully. My grandmother had five more children, she suffered years of beatings and abuse, she watched my grandfather beat her children and her children watched my grandfather beat their mother. my grandmothers daughter Lilly died age just thirteen years old, rumour has it she died after a beating from my grandfather.My grandmother never got over Lilly’s death she would lovingly tell me stories of her belovered daughter. My grandmother was aware that Sarah was unable to care for her son Mitchel as Sarah was a single mother with four young children of her own. She always thought that her son Cyril was looked after and was happy with his late father’s family. My uncle cyril told me that he had suffered terrible abuse throughout his childhood. My grandmother told me that my grandfather beat her daughter Nora to prove that he didn’t favour her over her siblings. My auntie was badly beaten and thrown into the bushes. Neighbours found her whimpering they cleaned her wounds and comforted her. It must have been very difficult for my teenage mother to leave me with her father knowing full well that she was leaving me at just eighteen months old with her violent father. I am not knocking my mother for leaving me on St Helena to work in England, she sent much needed money back to her parents. I am happy that she was able to leave the island as there was nothing on the island for her besides sex abuse, and rape was rife on St Helena .Most of the woman around my mothers age either came over to England to work as cheap labour, or were subjected to a life of misery of having ten to tweleve children fathered by different men. My journey on St Helena was hard and difficult, my grandfather destroyed my childhood, two local boys repeatly raped me while my teacher caned me. I am angry with the teachers as they knew that I didn’t have a mother.I have been through hell and back, my husband walked out three years before we celebrated our ruby wedding aniversary. I am in a relationship with Anthony he is a kind, caring and understanding man I have found happiness at last and I thank god everyday. by Dorothy maude my life.
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