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| TLM-P was pleased that 'They all made friends with Uncle Tom'. \\ | TLM-P was pleased that 'They all made friends with Uncle Tom'. \\ |
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| Georgie he found looking 'well and very nice, quieter than of yore' - that she was quieter was not surprising given what she had faced after they left Queensland. First, sailing from Plymouth to the next English port, she had been told by the ship's second mate, 'that he feared greatly that there was great trouble in store for her'. They then discovered that Henry faced criminal charges, accused of embezzlement, and was under police surveillance. Sometime after that she had had a 'very long and dangerous illness', facing the prospect of leaving her children motherless and with little support in England - given Henry's mother had died, and his step-mother was hostile. While the Martin's had found a better place to rent, which they planned to move into soon, they lived in 'very uncomfortable lodgings'. It was, TLM-P considered, a hard life compared to Georgie's one in Australia, but 'she had risen to the circumstances and done her work'. To make matters worse, TLM-P had a chat to an old soldier in Henry's office, discovering that Henry's employer had recently died and that consequently Henry might lose his job.\\ | Georgie he found looking 'well and very nice, quieter than of yore' - that she was quieter was not surprising given what she had faced after they left Queensland. First, sailing from Plymouth to the next English port, she had been told by the ship's second mate, 'that he feared greatly that there was great trouble in store for her'. They then discovered that Henry faced criminal charges, accused of embezzlement, and was under police surveillance. Sometime after that she had had a 'very long and dangerous illness', facing the prospect of leaving her children motherless and with little support in England - given Henry's mother had died, and his step-mother was hostile. While the Martins had found a better place to rent, which they planned to move into soon, they lived in 'very uncomfortable lodgings'. It was, TLM-P considered, a hard life compared to Georgie's one in Australia, but 'she had risen to the circumstances and done her work'. To make matters worse, TLM-P had a chat to an old soldier in Henry's office, discovering that Henry's employer had recently died and that consequently Henry might lose his job.\\ |
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| On 5 July, the day after his arrival at the Martin's home, and having delighted in their children, TLM-P met with Henry in his office. Firstly, he asked him to prepare the legal documents required to relinquish his role as Nora's trustee under their marriage settlement on the grounds that he had returned to England. Henry said he had already written to 'Mrs Barton ... to relinquish his Trusteeship', so it appears his mother-in-law was not backward in protecting her daughter's interests.\\ | On 5 July, the day after his arrival at the Martin's home, and having delighted in their children, TLM-P met with Henry in his office. Firstly, he asked him to prepare the legal documents required to relinquish his role as Nora's trustee under their marriage settlement on the grounds that he had returned to England. Henry said he had already written to 'Mrs Barton ... to relinquish his Trusteeship', so it appears his mother-in-law was not backward in protecting her daughter's interests.\\ |
| The other event of note during TLM-P's visit, was that Henry's brother, an engineer, had been on a train when they saw a capsized boat: Henry's brother leap out of the train and ended up rescuing the two boys in the boat, along with another would-be rescuer.(7 July) \\ | The other event of note during TLM-P's visit, was that Henry's brother, an engineer, had been on a train when they saw a capsized boat: Henry's brother leap out of the train and ended up rescuing the two boys in the boat, along with another would-be rescuer.(7 July) \\ |
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| In 1917, we have another view of Georgie, after a visit by her nephew R.A. (Max) Barton. He wrote to his mother, 'I went out to see Aunt Georgie a few days ago and found her much more cheerful than I expected her to be in the midst of her troubles. She has had rather a bad time of it lately with car and eye trouble. She and Connie and her 3 children are living in rooms in a house at West Kensington and seem fairly satisfied with it. I like Aunt Georgie very much and she seemed to me ridiculously like Aunt Nora in some of her mannerisms and in her love for anecdote and reminiscence.(([[https://maxandtonybartonww1lettershome.wordpress.com/|Max letter 6 April 1917]])) \\ | In 1917, we have another view of Georgie, after a visit by her nephew R.A. (Max) Barton while he was on leave in London. He wrote to his mother, 'I went out to see Aunt Georgie a few days ago and found her much more cheerful than I expected her to be in the midst of her troubles. She has had rather a bad time of it lately with car and eye trouble. She and Connie and her 3 children are living in rooms in a house at West Kensington and seem fairly satisfied with it. I like Aunt Georgie very much and she seemed to me ridiculously like Aunt Nora in some of her mannerisms and in her love for anecdote and reminiscence.(([[https://maxandtonybartonww1lettershome.wordpress.com/|Max letter 6 April 1917]])) \\ |