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Annie Shevyns Gibson (1875-1959) Annie was the eldest of eight children, and had to leave school at the age of eleven to go to work in the sewing factory as a "bobbin girl." She worked long hours so that, in winter time, she went to work in the dark and came home after dark. She progressed through all the jobs at the factory and learned to become a seamstress. She earned her living for many years from what she learned in that factory; and was an accomplished tailor and seamstress until poor sight made that impossible. When Annie was 17 or 18, she was sent to live with Auntie Palmer in her big house in the country with servants. She had decided it was time to remove Annie from the poverty of her life and "make a lady" out of her. So Annie lived with Auntie Palmer as her companion for several years until she met and fell in love with Albert Gibson, a gardener’s helper from a nearby house. William Henry Shevyns (1843-1899) & Frances Emily Jackson (1847 1936)
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