My grandmother, Josephine

Josephine Smith born

Dec 11, 1938

Fathers death

Dec 11, 1944

Josephine's Father dies when she was 6 years old leaving his wife and 6 children.

Mother has a nervous breakdown

Dec 14, 1944

After the death of Josephines father, her mother has a nervous breakdown and josephine was sent outside of Dublin to stay with relatives.

Jospehine returns to family in Dublin

Dec 11, 1945

Finished School at 13 years old

Dec 13, 1951

Josephine got the highest grades in her class and graduated school 3 years early.

Worked in londen for a year

Dec 11, 1961

Worked as a bar maid in Manchester

Dec 13, 1961

Returns to Dublin

Dec 13, 1963

After working in Londen for a year as a taylor, Josephine returns to Dublin to continue working

Josephine marries Robert

Sep 20, 1967

First child born-David

Aug 15, 1968

second child born-Carol

Dec 13, 1970

Third child born-Joanna

Sep 12, 1976

Worked from home making clothes

Dec 13, 1980

Josephine always worked at home. A guy delivered a black sack of cut patterns at the beginning of the week and collected them at the end. This is what Josephine did all of her life.

Josephine did a Back to Work course

Aug 15, 1988

In this back to work course for women, she was tought how to fix computer circuits. Then worked in that for a year.

Worked with a top designer in Ireland making wedding dresses.

Dec 13, 1992

First Grandchild born-Caoimhe

Jul 20, 1997

Babysat me for 2 years

Dec 17, 1997

Babysat my cousin, David

Dec 17, 1999

Babysat my cousin, Denis

Dec 17, 2001

Babysat my cousin Harry

Dec 17, 2004

Babysat my cousin Brian

Dec 17, 2006

Babysat my cousin Hugh

Dec 17, 2007

Husband died

Dec 16, 2011