Nov. 2019 CAN BE POSTED ON JIMDO & WORDPRESS Continues : www.ancestryandtruetales.jimdo.com/ www.greta-ransom.com/greetha-ransom.wordpress.com & some Twitter & Facebook for scholars HISTORY with people around the TABLE : 1930s COLD WINTERS – PEPPERMINT JELLY – For a HIGH TEA 1920s-1930s my GORDON families my grandparents retirement house `Crail` Skelmsdale Road, CLACTON-on-Sea =& `Jerusalem ` Park Road, DEPTFORD my other grandparents (Roman Britain “redemption”) grandpa Sailor Frederick Charles Frobisher RANSOM- & wife Jean Minerva Weddell the sub-arctic Sea & South American Peru & INCA families : A DARK VALLEY is the 1930s in between two WORLD wide WARS … TABLES AND TRESTLES, small cafes and TEA shops would be aware of ` misty recent years passed, & had memories of their dead of late 19th century and 1914-1919 The GREAT WAR … & deaths of young and old too early because medical research went slowly from lack of money … • A book `DARK VALLEY 1930s` is published 2,000 & the author born 1941 is describing matters his parents lived with – and I and older cousins were well aware of, and at certain gatherings the author describes when I am present … everyone loved Leon BLUM … … & a Weddell ( Sea) sciences Aunt from our line Argentine & PERU lives on an impressive road in Paris … 1930s = BOOKS 1900s-1940s on our home shelves & local libraries England are always HARMSWORTH 10 vols. History of the World, journals of societies ancestry and histories worldwide, Hollywood films, agriculture, botany … and the important Arthur Mees encyclopedia 10 vols. for CHILDREN … the beginning of photography 1830s down to 1930s records the previous century 19th and early 20th century brilliantly … other books on History the world and archaeological drawings from discovered cities and sites explored by German, American, English scholars `digging` ups of Greek civilization, Roman, Biblical, pre-history, geology etc have children worldwide with an immense knowledge of the Globe, the Planet they live upon … it is realized 19th-20th centuries Mankind will visit the STARS … all religions are recognized … and that the Universe and beyond is to be explored … Newspapers daily and weekly to GORDON household I remember TIMES, Manchester GUARDIAN, and CLACTON district Paper weekly Catholic Times, Irish newspapers and a Welsh = for Granny Gordon and her sisters of `Stella Maris` close by Granville Road … a Movie magazine for Miss Winnie – I have on my Ransom line Uncle Fred MacMurray & Cousin Clarke Gable who has to hide that he is our Weddell INCA line where we hold an Ancient and High Office of Welfare for birth and death … I hear more on this 1988 from Washington State Department asking me about a dead colleague and others … we all carry more dead and have been tricked over TIGGY`s HOMES as have his father and uncles … HOMES and seashores of perfection and nature … Our families in Ireland are Murphy Shipping, Carroll horses and farming (teach 12 years old Elizabeth Taylor to ride for film National Velvet) , & my Uncle Sir Edmond John O`Brien farming and Finance whom I remember : And Cousin O`Grady 40 years who is to go into Vatican Corp 1942-3 but he is killed by Scots Lords et al who want to DEMOLISH Tiggy`s HOMES and STEAL the world SEA SHORES and destroy forests, farming, fishing and all trace of THOMAS GROTE HOMES worldwide : He Cousin O`Grady liked my poems when I was 9 years old and he is later told about the young Pole JAN KARSKI who calls November 1942 … & his elder cousin, my Granny Mary Helena Gordon told him he had done his brave part and he was to go to America and STAY there and TEACH what he was trained for and she and her COUSINS IRELAND would carry on being older and some of them could perhaps go into THE VATICAN still and try to talk with friend YOUNG PACELLI POPE … otherwise we will all try and meet in Heaven … but he is NOT to risk his young life anymore … he did that … a VIDEO is made by him when he is old … his rich dark hair faded but he uses his hands so delicately as I remember him talking at TEA 1942 in The Priests House Montfort Lodge CLACTON that wintery afternoon with the sound of the SEAS below the great church which `young Pacelli` oversaw from 1921 … He from the VATICAN telephones Mary Gordon my Granny 1920s-1930s and we have terrible problems because of SCOTLAND GREED and some SCANDINAVIANS … We all protect THOMAS GROTE HOMES !!! GROTE families are from West Saxony and are learned, honourable, moral and delicately religious …We meet them squatting on our 19 acres THE NEW YORK 1831 before Wall Street has any importance or paving and ask them to run the 19 acres as we have Greenland and South America to take care of in our honourable fashion … a marriage is made 1863 when their TIGGY marries Margareth Ransom and she my aunt I know until 1938 has to learn to Trade with gold and green fingers as TIGGY has left us ALL barefoot for the years ahead launching the HOMES twice around the GLOBE and everyone is pleased at this miracle curriculum with some input from Edward LEER & a touch of our Uncle Fr. Immanuel KANT whose niece has married into GROTE BROKERS to become our in-laws 1863 : … but WE Ransom seashores brides of the world A to Z set GROTE UP IN BUISINESS by letting their TIGGY put his REAL HOMES educating orphans to 20 years and more ON OUR LANDS … are robbed to this day of 4 acres and a bit under CENTRAL PARK … THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT approved was a gift to us RANSOM … Every nation agreed except SCOTLAND EARLS who appeared to run the BRITISH EMPIRE at that time … (www.greta-ransom.com and the other web sites jimdo and wordpress …) In 1883 powerful mad SCOTLAND EARLS Premier of LINDSAY Crawford LINDSEY lure the Educationalist widow JOHN RANSOM into a marriage with a grandchild MILLIE FROBISHER a young scholar (whose father they have robbed of Canada bits and pieces) … 1930s we have a cousin of the mur dered Millie mother of my grandfather FREDERICK Charles Frobisher RANSOM try to give great assistance to save the TIGGY HOMES … she is VIOLET Artist Lindsay to become RUTLAND and join us all with somewhere related lines blood and in-laws sometimes called THE SOULS – Violet is a student of artist FREDERICK WARR … I am called the girl sitting on top of the Globe … I think it is after a painting … 2ND WORLD WAR my father is sent to Philippines by cunning Earls to be killed and British WAR OFFICE have issued his “RETURN for HOME DUTIES Officer-Captain 1942-1943 … discovering some GROTE Genocide and rank treachery by distant related EARLS and accomplices and one Earldom Scotland with nasty WITCHCRAFT continuing from when a Countess was burned at the Stake for killing the King who took 6 months to die from HER POISONS – I do not see my father until September 1945 and then three quarters of the worldwide HOMES of TIGGY have had the children burned in pits or sunk in nets at sea … He is busy with GROTE Wall Street picking the vast ESTATE off duck-boards and warning vulnerable people NOT to confront the Genociders …MEANWHILE THE SEASHORES of the GLOBE are being cunningly destroyed – forests gone, cheap holiday accommodation, local farming and crafts, schools and hospitals disappear … OUTSIDE THE BRITISH EMPIRE COMMONWEALTH … … the Sailor King George V had to early die 1936 before this GREATEST CRIME of CIVILIZATION could BEGIN XMAS morning Norway 1938 : … and his true heir Ned (Edward 8) kicked out in December 1936 had been abused and tricked by cunning newspapers = Certain news-rags who had been aware from 1929 of drug growing Scotland Earls and certain Scandinavians able to PICK OFF the GROTE RANSOM Estate worldwide for DESTRUCTION and mindless TRADE 1938-1956 … Tiggy was murdered by Scotland Earls 1904, his widow Margareth slyly under `watch` & her legal heirs 2 youngsters approved the Globe for their ability to uphold the Family traditions of England and America and South America …CULLING of heirs in Scotland was discovered 1960 by old trusted lawyers who felt IT HAD STOPPED 1930s … … 1940s my families and GROTE Wall Street are spied upon and watched because of TIGGY Grote`s Real Homes on our Ransom centuries of Dowry seashores around the Planet with the CURRICULUM of everything there is to know, religions & languages : `Young Pacelli` now Pope 1939 approves & VATICAN have had THE HOMES in all their lands since 1870 when after a trial in Rome, TIGGY was told `TIG YOU ARE ON` = perhaps this was said in Latin … The families & the 2nd World War encourage us all to keep cheerful !! JOHN BUCHAN dies 1940 soon after telling EVIL DRUG SOAKED aristocrats ‘EVERY CHILD IN THE WORLD DESERVES A GROTE CURRICULUM …” I won`t understand the FULL EVIL of 1939-1940 until 1987 !! Then he JOHN BUCHAN (book 39 STEPS made this Scotland Rector`s son rich and he became Governor General of CANADA – known for his NON- RACISM …HE HAS MANY BOOKS later … ) began to come back in my memory … and I see him again talking with Uncle Hilaire BELLOC at the `Days at Home` we go to 1930s … Houses `Clouds`, pleasant Stanway & there is poor Ettie with 3 dead sons = Ettie Desborough and her Easter Marquee Easters at Taplow … and there were other beautiful homes with graceful gardens and nice staff … as with the foreign Embassies in LONDON where we have invitations to lovely TEAS : And my relatives and distant relatives nearly all sad from loss of children & relatives in that 1st world war called THE GREAT WAR and they are FEARFUL of another WAR coming … the 2nd World WAR … 1939-45 it came, with its carnage as the First that GREAT WAR that it was felt would END all WARS … These once beautiful men and women of the photographs, referred to sometimes as ` SOULS ` … and others of talent were bereaved … as my families and their friends at THE RUBY WEDDING LUNCHEON of 1930 … As I grow up from March 1933 Music is known & performed from all centuries in churches and little groups East Anglia and I collected a wealth of music abroad 1935-36 including Mossolov and my favourite piece of RUSSIAN music `D`niepner Water Power Station` a Colombia record – Grandpa George Gordon can play cello with reluctance if a small performance group is desperate and Mary Gordon is a great Church singer but `puts any fees in the Poor Box` … she understudied Mary Garden for Debussy `Pell & Mel` but this was to help her Mary Gordon get over 4 children died suddenly from an outbreak of Scarletina at Highgate = composers Elgar & Debussy the newcomers are heard with emotion, especially compositions of SEA music by we who live by the Seas Edges & Riversides … pianos & gramophones are in most houses and favourite records are treasured for memories of the years … 1944 comes Ben Britten with his Opera PETER GRIMES sea sounds …. I CARRY MANY DEAD 2nd World War and do not wish to lose them and their goodness … www.ancestryandtruetales.jimdo.com = www.greta-ransom.com www.greetah-ransom.wordpress.com … July 1945 I will sing with Georges-Andre Colonel MALRAUX the 1610 MASS of Claudio Monteverdi … this is to bring him into LIFE for he has arrived “ … I am a widower of Josette and I have 2 dead brothers of this last WAR … and 2 tiny sons to raise … ” The church and the convent of Poor Saint Clare Order welcome him and the town of Clacton as pre-War … 1930s GOOD FOOD = HIGH TEA at 6pm, BBC news softly on, … or for a winter night Supper after late work or a walk with family, friends along the Seas Edges a rough night of waves, or a calm sea and moonlight … SATTEUS LAETUS `I am joyful with sufficient` MOTTO of OSBERT RANSOM 969 AD Suffolk to Norfolk, DUNWICH Estate 92AD = a family of ROMAN BRITAIN holding Office of REDEMPTIO –taxes-Ransom = SEE the 19th dictionaries of old Dr SMITH & wander into Dr LEMPRIERE Abingdon School … READER may care to make this recipe of the two households of my grandparents called `PEPPERMINT JELLY` (and read the separate pages of the 1930 RUBY WEDDING (30 years) of grandparents George & Mary Helena Gordon a Luncheon to re-create for good healthy eating, a greater tableful…) 1930s I remember that PEPPERMINT JELLY is copied by my other grandparents Frederick Charles Frobisher RANSOM and his ballet-choreographer wife Jean Minerva Weddell (widow Smith Aquida family Spain & Argentine) : & thus we are in Spain 1936 before I have a nice talk Rome with `young Pacelli` a friend of all my grandparents & the Irish cousins and one of my Godfathers … and when I come again to ROME we are going OUT TO TEA he writes my grandmother Mary Helena Gordon … and he knows a place with a hurdy-gurdy … 1936 spring : AT THE VATICAN ROME : With a young friend of my older families I am asked to speak with him ! We are at ease and I like him straight away – so we set to and talk of World histories and Aunt Margareth`s West Greenland and my recent visit to “ dear to my heart Tierra del Fuego” … where I have promised a little Convent of Nuns of Ireland, Scotland and Spain more help with their vegetable and fruit garden, a new Convent and a School like St Clare`s Convent Clacton-on-Sea … and Daddy has set about this sending them a lorry of thick winter blankets from Aunt Margareth`s BRAZIL factory … … and help with the gardening, and more help in the hospitals and their little school … And when I come to ROME again soon we are to go out in the old City for a nice Tea where he escapes sometimes wearing an old Robe & with his sketch book and with a cousin of Granny Mary Helena Gordon & all her cousins … Father Cousin `Stephen Foster` lives in the Vatican and writes nice books and sends me blue and green sweets to remember the green of the earth and the blue of the seas until 1973 … WAR CAME and stopped all this and `young Pacelli` had to take over as Pope … but he is also one of my Godfathers … and he will talk with Georges–Andre Malraux my Guardian early November 1957 and they have been tricked horribly : ( Concerning our PHILANTHROPY encircling the Globe it is in March 1962 General de Gaulle will say of this trickery we have all suffered from, as he holds an important Will copy in his hands, “ AN OBSCENE GIGANTIC piece of STATECRAFT by Gross Brittannique …”) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1930s HIGH TEA MENU follows `PEPPERMINT JELLY` = at the Clacton seaside and riverside Deptford 1930s `HIGH TEA` or SUPPER a winter evening by the Suffolk-Essex seaside or the Thames River side (Roman Britain LONDINIUM) … 1 … make day before slow cooked best liver in bacon fat some herbs, trace of onion – mash it fine & keep in cool place – 2. CUT THICK SLICES OF BREAD & toast & spread with butter and the liver pate` … fresh made mint sauce in a dish is nice with it (chopped fresh mint leaves with sugar a little vinegar) … 3. PEPPERMINT JELLY – make early in the day … gelatine, hot water, sugar, peppermint essence Langdale`s little bottles, fresh cream from the Milk delivery cart man – Cool on winter windowsill – when nearly set stir in cream or top-of-the-milk – Jersey milk a little more expensive had a good inch and a half of pale yellow cream at top of bottle … While setting the table the grown-ups can take a glass of medium sherry or glass of beer or `Canary` … talk of the day`s happenings and around the Globe gathered from polite newspapers written in clear English – Someone reads a few pages from a meaningful book … a verse of a comforting poem echoed leading to perhaps talk of seashores, shell fishes, spring coming again with woods and bluebells, violets and primroses along quiet lanes and peace ? … BBC wireless always softly on at a distance or top of the staircase so never an empty house … that well remembered GREAT WAR 1914-1919 has families visit Cemeteries with seasonal flowers and soft words spoken to those brought home from France … some visits to Continent planned to stay in the towns of the recent Foes of that GREAT WAR & friendships made with the losers … but all the Seas Edges people fearful of another coming War (as it does soon 1939-1945) (1945 JUNE CLACTON … my aunt Esther Mary Gordon Mrs F. Potter born 1919 Highgate or Woodford Green is saying to `Andre dear` (Andre Malraux who has 3 dead 2nd World War to carry) “our cemetery has a view of the Sea – I shall enjoy being buried there one day” & he nods solemnly & wishes to take a bouquet of roses to her mother Mary Helena Gordon & continue talking as summer 1937-& her sister Kitty Gordon Vansittart : I take Colonel Georges Andre Malraux to the Clacton-on-Sea town British Restaurant dinner times when I come from school mid-day – he is my Guardian from October 1937 but the young lady Josette is dead 1944 when a train ran over her legs: he has their two baby boys to raise and they are to go to Ampleforth School where the writer TOLKIEN will have his 4 boys raised = My uncle writer Hilaire BELLOC born 1870 at PAU an April Eastertide day of snow, a French father Notaire scholar-English mother … `Hilly` BELLOC approves this school … ) But we have not finished our HIGH TEA 1930s-1939 at Seaside or Riverside … and I am enjoying it mightily & hoping the JELLY will have crystallized mint leaves and violets decorating it, but listening carefully to the troubles upon the Globe a half of which I have travelled to Pole Nord to Pole-sub and back again to the Continent in nearly a year 1935-1936 … … family and friends may recall and talk of big kitchens of their youth … homework at big kitchen tables and grandmothers and widowed ladies preparing winter preserves …but the threat of another WAR hovers like grey mist the 1930s when I born 1933 March with its East-Anglia cold days but the brilliance of yellow daffodils in gardens and shops gladdens this decade of `a Dark Valley` : Another pot of China tea comes to table & `Ooh-ahh` a big box of Chocolates from a corner cupboard or sideboard … EARLIER BEDTIME in Winter for children : wash hands & face and well clean teeth, brush hair & a quiet warm night`s sleep in the cosy brushed cotton nightclothes – Church clocks strike the hour and perhaps OWLS can be heard from the tall trees & the Essex nearby villages … … when I am at `Jerusalem` Park Road Deptford wintertime there are River boats activities, muffled sounds after dark … my other grandparents sometimes live here – they are Frederick Charles Frobisher Ransom some submarine work & battle of Jutland experience this past GREAT WAR … & wife Jean choreographer-ballerina & Spanish dancer born Argentine, she a friend of Lily Boulanger composer, 2 young women who survived the GREAT WAR but `Lillies` died of the great 1919 Flu epidemic & Claude Debussy of `la MER` too-everybody everywhere has a record of his greatest sea music … first performance 1905 with he conducting was at EASTBOURNE Seas Edges, England … : FRIGHTENING matters are SINKING of TITANIC April 1912 then GREAT WAR 1914-19 … on rough sea nights we by the Seashores would make Sign of the Cross and say softly “ … may they be kept safe at sea … Amen … ” It was a subject of serious conversation 1920s-30s that the advances in technology were being misused … 1935 October-1936 June : MY T E A S enjoyed about the GLOBE may be mentioned by me ? : I have an uncle Rear Admiral Alfred Charles Ransom of the GREAT WAR & 1935-36 … with he & my Ransom-Grote & Weddell families in tiny aero-planes we travelled Pole Nord to Pole Sub, visiting our relatives & Philanthropy in between – (nations A-Z) … I had several nice TEAS with sandwiches & cakes : with Dr Einstein wife & little dog and he and I count on our fingers because only the INCA are really clever with arithmetic : another TEA with our almost cousins ? the Armice Settlement & lots of treacle tart : We flew in to see Mrs Roosevelt for TEA & she read out his dashed off letter about successful talks with Margareth Aunt Grote … then I had to have a sleep age 3-4 years ! IF READER turns to `1937 SUMMER ` www.greta-ransom.com they can locate 1935 BILLY GOAT WEDDELL and THE HOUSE WITH THE WINDOWS of LAVENDER PEARLS … and there are many ENGLISH 19th century TEAS here as we stay a happy time with OUR WEDDELL RELATIVES … Cousin Clark Gable has left with his oil cans in back of car with friend to drive back to North America … look at his features and where MORONS LINDSAY LIARS and JIMMIE JONG in WHITES CLUB ST JAMES CLUB LONDON, did he get those features from IF NOT OUR great and great-grandpa and great-great-great GRANDPA `Yah. JOSEPH San JULIAN ORDER OF Frat. of St Michael old SPANISH community from 1540 . ??? WE ALL HAVE TO HIDE OUR LINEAGE BECAUSE GROSS BRITAIN AND FAILING EMPIRE is preparing to hurry a good sailor King into early death, insult and kick out his heir … and put an Scotland Earl`s bastard into purple at Westminster … and then they ALL RAN RIOT IN A GENOCIDE OF THE THOMAS Immanuel GROTE HOMES established 1864 … ON RANSOM-REDEMPTIO lands a Genealogy of IMPECCABLE families of learning and good trading and modesty and PURITY … DEUS VULT ? ========================================= MARGARETH is `girl of the Snows` as she is called from 1860s when TIGGY began his real HOMES worldwide after they married : It is known everywhere that TIGGY and the Real Homes for Orphans got going round the World very fast 1964 … but `leaving Wall Street and the new Bride 1863 shoeless` = But the kind De Beer ladies sent the new Bride whom they had known since a tiny child a diamond hairnet so she could dine out looking beautiful if shoeless … ladies of `scholarship` preferred the `water` or bracken diamonds … Margareth`s Spanish scarlet wedding frock had bracken diamonds upon the bodice … her father `old Fred Ransom` wanted to see a bride in Scarlet against the SNOWS of West Greenland … our JACOB`s CHAPEL where French friend DELACROIX came and painted the doors with ANGELS and JACOP … `1920s stolen and falsified and curiously dumped in “ … a dusty FRENCH Mansion claimed by the Bloody Liars Earls of Scotland …” ( RECORDS 1953 the THEOPOMPOS boys young men SCARLET TOWN London … they are pulling out of JUNK and FRAUD medicine … ALL THESE POOFTERS ARE ON HEROIN etc fine suits, cars, apartments and COUNTY HOUSES … HYPNOTISM is IN …) `Our in-laws GROTE BROKERS now upon the paved Wall Street were shoeless too from this venture of THEIR TIGGY but as they look after our `packit` 19 acres The New York from 1831 we all recovered and as TIG`s HOMES for ORPHANS are all set upon our RANSOM seashore lands the Globe we all recovered and could wear SHOES in the 1870s and I hear presents of shoes came to us all at CHRISTMASTIDE …GROTE in-laws gave us Ransom 4 acres and a sliver under CENTRAL PARK to cover their embarrassment over their enthusiastic TIGGY = Unfortunately in the last few years somebody has sold this 4 acres and a bit RANSOM property to a NEW YORK MAYOR … newspapers speak of money paid to an unnamed SELLER of Great Britain … Nasty matters never stop to keep from the WORLD of good sane people the SCOTLAND EARLS Genocide of the THOMAS GROTE ORPHANS during the 2nd World War … the theft done quietly by putting up a woman who said “ … I was given the GROTE Homes and lands when I was 10 years old by the OLD ESKIMO of a Scots Island …” The theft of RANSOM lands has continued into 1990s-and this next century … TO HIDE A GENOCIDE and I am told in sorrow 1988 by honourable persons from WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT … “ WASHINGTON HONOURABLE WORKERS … … it seems the British Government were worried about their TRADE FIGURES during this last War (2nd World War) and killed all the Orphans from 1938 to 1956 …We have lost good colleagues … can you help us …? NO ONE SAYS THE NAME THOMAS GROTE anymore or they can get killed …” (signed) `Greetah` Ransom who talks with her AUNT MARGARETH and hears of her “green & gold VENTURE`- MY JOYOUS VENTURE to see the TIGGY HOMES educating tiny orphans to 20s years old and onwards HAVE such useful and valuable lives … & they always come HOME visiting bringing their families … The HOMES must be guarded and kept safe for nearly a million children yearly world-wide on our family sea shores, dowries from our BRIDES of many centuries -where we can safely PULL the SHIP IN …” LIR my FLYER MUSICIAN Uncle keeps diaries from age 12 years : OUR FAMILIES at Table & Trestle 1935 Their picnics, ships, airplanes … from BC to AD the expanding world … `FOOD in history` work assembled by records of my families Greta Frobisher Weddell Maureen Caecelia RANSOM (dau of Frederick John RANSOM b 1911 & Teresa Elizabeth nee Gordon b 1906 : (She a dau of George Ernest Gordon of Scotland b1868 & wife Mary Helena Carroll Williams of Dublin & Manchester b 1870 = he (my polymath kind young British Army Father) elder son of Frederick Charles Frobisher RANSOM & wife Jean Minerva nee Weddell ) www.greta-ransom.com/ www.ancestryandtruetales.jimdo.com & www.greetah-ransom.wordpress.com … some Facebook & Twitter for scholars & researchers as requested from 2011 January 31st & continuing : 1935 March a supper `Dames-school` The Old Road Clacton-on-Sea (Saxon Clactuna in Little Doomsday Book et al) A wondrous SUPPER March 1935 : the MENU follows : This spread comes cooked and warm from our 19th century Range and a tiny Oven of 1760 made in Birmingham the first iron range …for this tiny house at the front was once a great old farmhouse and Dames School attached … when I meet Uncle Walter Benjamin in Paris he will say that what I like is called technology and he is writing something when he has time about the Paris Arcades and technology … (It nearly got all lost in the coming War 2 ! it is a nice bedtime book for 20 minutes ) It will be repeated in the weeks ahead here but not in its entire spread but every dish will be repeated in happier company … Some in the Ovens in this Great Kitchen … Looked forward to when we come back from the Seafront especially when we have gone to see the wild Holland-Clacton-Jaywick Seas on a stormy night with fleeting cloud and sudden deep sapphire skies heavy with STARS … which we know and I already at The Quaker School (across the Old Road) know are OTHER WORLDS for the good and kind human beings to one day soon EXPLORE … and they do before this 20th century ends … From October 1935 into half of 1936 I will see skies from Poles Nord to Sub & our Weddell Sea of Jean`s grandpa – and the British Royal Navy & Uncle Captain Mainwarring and great-Uncle Rear Admiral Alfred Charles Ransom are going to make some Scientific WORK there and are arranging for my grandmother JEAN choreographer ballet dancer to DANCE ON HER GRAND-FATHER James Quaker HIS WEDDELL SEA for perhaps 2 minutes and it will be filmed and safe forever – I eat on Sundays at `Jerusalem` Park Road DEPTFORD with his mother`s Silver tableware the PIECE Quaker families … And we are visiting all in between 1935-1936 for Aunt Margareth widow of TIGGY Grote the Real HOMES for world Orphans educating them into their 20 years in everything that is known down the centuries and all religions and languages & sciences and music (it is possible TIGGY and EDWARD LEAR and our GROTE Brokers USA thought this CURRICULUM up in 1861-1864 and encircled the Globe on our Ransom seashores by 1870s … By April 1936 I know the Continent and we have had tea with the Dauphin in his white canvas tennis shoes … and he does NOT want to live in “that place” Versailles … Guests who insist coming = For my dead great-grandmother killed by the Earl 1897 Millie Frobisher Mrs JOHN RANSOM (he killed 1890 by the Earl) her EARL of LINDSAY & Crawford 19th century grandparents blood line = LINDSAY & LINDSEY EARLS are known to British Police all 20th century from Scotland to English Channel as “ LINDSAYbuggarhs on way got the Bailiffs in again … give you Cover to-night … ” POLICE messages for US & Town and seashores Essex-Suffolk – THEY RAID GROCERY & LIQUOR SHOPS at night … my grandpa Frederick Charles Frobisher RANSOM, my father born 1911and his youngest brother born Argentine 1921 … my mother Teresa Gordon-Gordon Mrs R … my Granny Mary Helena Murphy Carroll O`Brien O`Grady etc WILLIAMS (see DEBRETTS et al) and her youngest son Harry GORDON b 1912 a talented engineer & inventor are wise to not go out at night … ( … but the LINDSAY gang stole young Harry`s inventions : a half Scot Chinese Jimmie works for THEM by MOONLIGHT … he is often following US Ransom and GROTE New York & GORDONs abroad … He is called Jimmie Mr Jong -James Clown of Heaven … his respectable rich CHINESE educated family put him into PEKIN OPERA Theatre School after he committed Scotland crimes in China where they owned Nan-Jin lands for centuries … but his mother because she was rich was allowed to marry his father an RN Captain & transferring to lower Diplomatic post, a Captain James R.N., at Port Arthur … these foreign marriages were allowed if the girl was RICH ! ) RECORDS of this SUPPER & the evening are mentioned in `SANCTUS SPIRITUS` a journal of Frederick John RANSOM & he writes 1935 of this SUPPER recording family histories and global matters of the time (in newspapers-now on internet) ( I in my bedroom above could hear the evening and was frightened by an intruder but we calmly dealt with this matter & recorded it ) = Nota bene: below is for the new READER : We have from a marriage 1883 of brother of Margareth Mrs Tiggy Grote founders of the GROTE HOMES worldwide (he widower of Sylvia Henshaw Montreal educationalist) JOHN RANSOM educationalist & Millicent she scholar ice skater & Greek arts dance & chariot processions, collected powerful Earls of Scotland who the week after the wedding demand all monies & lands are automatically become properties of the Head of the Clan he HIMSELF ! Tradition appointed by HE Earl LINDSAY Crawford, they become Premier Earls of Scotland and Britain ! – they Lindsay-Lindsey are known to cull surplus family & in-laws down the centuries for money and lands : And grow with other aristocrats a DRUG called Divinorum Salvia Scotland illegal 1929 – it is torch fired into pretty pellets of lavender-gilt and when inserted in the nose (snout) gives immense strength & violence of purpose = report 1970 the 3 greatest Research Hospitals of the Globe finishes with “ we cannot rule out they may breed insane …” This is a Scotland world that Sir Walter Scott novelist has given cautious glimpses of in his tremendous work on Scotland histories : (The `purple power` in pellets and powder was on sale at Cheltenham Races 1981 & known to the gruesome insane Gloucester couple exposed 1990s married couple FRED and ROSE WEST … newspapers, television covered the exposure and trial … 1883 Tiggy is warned Aberdeen he is to be killed the night of the Wedding Visit to this Clan LINDSAY Crawford LINDSEY and he was safely got out by boat early evening : Unfortunately for the Earls of LINDSAY Crawford and LINDSEY we are looked after by our in-laws GROTE BROKERS NEW YORK whom we first meet 1831 squatting on our 19 acres The NEW YORK which Aunt Margareth`s Grandpa `Antigua Frederick Ransom` bought in 1801 … GROTE are not yet on WALL STREET BECAUSE IT IS NOT YET EXISTING … GROTE BROTHERS and families are from West Saxony GERMANY and families of high moral code and delicate religion … and we are not greedy but thoughtful for all peoples and lands and seas … a bit poetic and musical and philosophy comes from Uncle Fr. Immanuel KANT and of course Confucius … CONTINUING 1930s … So Aunt Margareth `my girl of the Snows still dancing` tells me how her young Father to be called `Old Fred Ransom` asked the two young GROTE men in the German language if they would like to look after this 19 acres & showed them the Papers & amusing Diary of his Dad 1801 “ I have this Day purchased a pacit 19 acres The New York ” … with sketch when he built his chalet facing North and got SNOWED in the first winter : … THEN F.R. Sea Trader & scholarly as all F.Rs before him, decided his family might not like snowed up winters of THE NEW YORK all the year and the 1500 Farm at Montrose Basin would be preferable, the Japan houses & others we RANSOM have around the Globe from marriages to Brides whose dowry is a PIECE OF SEASHORE to PULL THE SHIP IN when times are with plague, wars or religious silliness, wondered what he should do with all this 19 Acres but did not throw his heart and soul into it at first … The PIRATES were a problem in Antigua – where he had Orders for endless ORANGES as Marmalade had become popular … especially to cousins of his wife who made it in glass jars …( he FR of 1801 has a wife with a Dutch Uncle who is witness to this purchase … ) F.R. is my great-great-great GRANDPA RANSOM & I know all myREDEMPLTIO ancestors in straight line to 92 AD DUNWICH Suffolk … Roman Empire BRITAIN … 1830 USA and North Pole the German language was useful with English and Dutch : The 2 Grote young men of West Saxony have high moral Code and are with religious breeding of their birth land as we learn – We Ransom families early 19th century showed them that our wealth is in world seashores down the centuries from our foreign brides outside the British Empire … Peace settled in and they before the move to WALL STREET became `well-to-do` … A marriage is made in 1863 to their offspring Thomas Immanuel GROTE to Margareth Ransom of Montrose Basin Farm and Jacopsholmen Island WEST GREENLAND … Their Thomas known as TIGGY is a great nephew of Frederick Immanuel KANT his mother a niece of the Philosopher … but our favourite Philosopher is CONFUCIUS …and there are descendants to this day … NNB: 1864 and the Philanthropic Real HOMES of THOMAS Immanuel GROTE (husband 1863 of my great-Aunt Margareth Grote nee Ransom) are built upon our seashores = our family stretch around the Globe and have been SEA TRADERS from BC Udwalla Jutland & Mediterranean then Pole to Pole widening with the early expanding globe … we are 19 races and 27 nations on the female line – From my first years I enjoy knowing what these descending down the centuries GRANDMA`s wore for their weddings and what they put on the trestles and tables to eat ? … how did they cook … and here and there amongst these vast cousins we have (all still at Sea in some manner and I get Christmas and Birthday presents) the actual plates and bowls and `eating irons` & chop sticks exist as heirlooms and I know of and see two wedding frocks = one of silver moonlight of Venice 16th century, and Aunt Margareth `my girl of the snows` her Spanish wedding frock of Scarlet silks because her Father `old Fred R` wanted to see a bride in Scarlet against the West GREENLAND snows … Maidens and school Girls of all centuries should be able to go to the Kitchen and supervise if people are unwell, and help and make bon-bons and soups and cakes and salads I have heard – CAKES WHEN SUDDENLY VISITORS APPEAR … : SUMMER 1937 hence at CLACTON I am able to make for Josette a young Lady writer and Georges-Andre Malraux our 2 months of summer holiday 1937 delicious afternoon Fairy Cakes to have with our China Tea … but ask him to put them in the oven as young cooks must not take risks I have been instructed … he likes cakes … & so that Jo and I do not have to `put our aprons on every afternoon` of this Holiday he says he will sometimes provide the cakes … although we continue to make soup and some suppers & Unity`s mother an Australian artist sets the breakfast … but he and I who go with Homer`s ` ROSY FINGERED DAWN in her cloak of GREY` to fetch the early newspapers come on the train from London, are provided with a breakfast list to buy fresh eggs, herrings or kippers in the little town and bring back by 8.am … we are known to rise at 4 am …JOSETTE young lady a writer is left to sleep ! ( … he and JOSETTE are away from WAR and BLOOD of SPAIN 1936 … ) He Georges-Andre dear, as his mother and Aunt Marie called him (Young MAN of LETTERS name ANDRE MALRAUX on early books) has taken to skipping over to The Co-op Store CLACTON town and buying bags of assorted cakes … and he likes chatting to everyone in the town and is so happy and not at all nervous after the first 2 weeks : and his mother has a blood line of 900 years beginning FAMILY HISTON ( HISTON … see little river on old maps) Lincolnshire to Suffolk and he knows many of them as she did … she was given a `dowry house` at Saxmundham Hall Suffolk … the Family cousins hoped she might marry back in when she was 12 years old and visiting with her mother and sister … (NB: in China Asia in the 19th century the Methodists taught the Chinese to make all the cakes in the Victorian and Edwardian cookery books … I was surprised to find shop windows full of familiar CAKES from my childhood in 1986 and 1988 our tour for BMNH FISHES department along Seas Edges the whole of China where the Universities and Colleges are, many founded by Methodists for the Sciences …) SEPTEMBER 1937 we tree go on PILGRIMAGE from Lincoln all along the SEAS EDGES in the footsteps of his ANCESTORS … I have written this fuller from our memories 1957-1970 AM/GR and posted it on www.ancestryandtruetales.jimdo.com … but it is also collected with that `best HOLIDAY of all` in 1937 SUMMER Andre Malraux, Josette Clotis, Greta Ransom, CLACTON-on-Sea and WEST GREENLAND – document in 3 Parts – a scaffolding for the Work to follow on … 1935 March – SUPPER Old Road former DAMES SCHOOL HOUSE : in the great kitchen … the Dames School House that was attached to an old Farm House – 1870s a small Victorian front built and becomes 2 houses but with long gardens – my Father intends make it a Town Museum when we take another house we like, perhaps Holland-on-Sea seafront … all our family like preserving historic areas to keep communities with their roots … MENU chosen by my father, help from 2 Quaker girls 16-17 my baby-sitters whose parents sang at THE POOR MAN`s OPERA, GLASTONBURY created by eminent Church composter Rutland Boughton 1914-1926 … performers sang and played for free where they could & others including a very young PAUL ROBSON began & would be funded … Closed 1926 when Composer Boughton was accused of encouraging socialism … but his Opera the Immortal Hour played in London for over a year … Guests were a few of the Gordon and Ransom families = and LINDSAY-Lindsey EARLS & unruly Clan, with a false solicitor, all insisting the GROTE HOMES and the RANSOM lands worldwide can be “SHARED OUT” because WE the owners do not live in a big PLACE in England … (in depth on www my web sites www.ancestryandtruetales.jimdo.com and www.greetah-ransom.wordpress.com – find perhaps Mr MAN in the MOON … with this MENU and unruly behaviour of Scotland aristocrat ` JURASSIC BOG TROTTERS` … SUPPER for READERS to MEET our relatives from a marriage of Millie Frobisher to widower John Ransom 1883, St Magnus the Martyr Riverside Thames London & another ceremony in another church = ST MAGNUS the MARTYR is a great classical architecture Roman Catholic Church known as `the Seamens Church` – I am present at a November 1938 afternoon Service & describe with relatives this immense space with Faure`s Requiem played … “blood freezing as the music begins” I say this as solemn matters end … and we quietly speak with wonderful people of distinction and honour … ANOTHER WAR WILL BEGIN 1939… 2nd W.War 1939-1945 … the last one, The GREAT WAR was very recent 1914-1919 … 1935 MENU – a cold March month – SUPPER at Old Road, Clacton by the Sea – • 1930s sees advancement in airplanes & beginning of RADA, and Railway travel, small cars, but too little in Medicine & its necessary Research – advances in control of malnutrition and disease often coming from 19th century by Doctors working about the vast British Empire … the biggest EMPIRE in the Globe and like the ROMAN Empire it has become too big & too plundering of its lands, education neglected often as in the other Empires of Belgium, France, Scandinavia, Netherlands, America are all competing … WIRELESS-radio ! • • (A young Frenchman born 1901 November 3, raised gently by three women, mother Bertha & sister Marie and Grandmother Adrianna-Adrienne and speaking perfect ENGLISH language from age 12 years (grandparents had an impressive house in ITALY 19th century seen by me GR 1968 (work www `HARWELL The Pillar House to POMPEII and back` with 3 children) has gone to Asia with his German wife early1920s and returns 1924 (after meeting my mother to be Teresa E. Gordon and her black horse fame) • • HE ANDRE MALRAUX has his name on several books, is worried deeply about EMPIRES and writes a book “MAN`s FATE” published in 1933 USA and FRANCE “la CONDITIONE HUMAINE” … His mother and close family have an English blood line they know and visit and it is with full histories of its 900 years beginning Sea Traders and small farmers along the SEAS EDGES from LINCOLNSHIRE to SUFFOLK … some 3 centuries at Kings LYNN where they become `well-to-do` … 1920s they are spread to Somerset Manchester and Liverpool … I hear more 1987 … 1935 CLACTON, LONDON, abroad, I am hearing older folk after Sunday Church talk of Titanic sinking as `an act of God a warning against too much luxury put first … most families cook Sunday dinner-lunch & plan the week days ahead & relax from work on Sunday-Sontag-la Domenica- and may even keep cheerful about Scandinavian names of days = Sunday=Valhalla a quiet murmur as they remember their raising a glass of PORT or sherry after traditional Sunday midday dinner … TITANIC and 1st World War THE GREAT WAR sinkings of Merchant Navy and Royal Navy ships … the East Anglia seas are about our shores and in WINTERTIDE is impossible to forget … (Scandinavian days of course are LUNATICS day-Monday=Tuesday the God who polishes the Armour= for the Gods must all FIGHT on Woden`s day- and on THOR his day he must light the forge and begin a Thursday of hard work = FRIDAY the Goddess FRIGA weaves to cover their SHAME … heavy blankets and mourning clothes of grey, and sometimes wedding veils … SATURDAY is Saturn`s Day and everyone goes shopping – then comes SONTAG la DOMENICA SUNDAY & VALHALLA at eventide if it gets out of hand with heroic tales will have them MONDAY in MOON DAY, lunatics day … I will tell young Georges-ANDRE MALRAUX and JOSETT E CLOTIS his young LADY this SUMMER 1937 as we take 2 months summer holiday CLACTON and WALK in his mother`s footsteps of her ancestors of 900 years September …) AT LAST THE MENU – It can be cooked this 21st century with careful planning and a kitchen … FISHES and SHELL FISHES, different Breads unsalted butter, olive oil & a light mayonnaise, Sea salt … A SALAD of cresses … some celery sticks in heavy glass vase A HOT MEAT, and a big VEGETABLE DISH … straight from the great Kitchen Oven where the meal is dished from – pickles homemade by our households, and a bought good SWEET CHUTNEY, probably from India … BAKED SWEET PUDDINGS – the weather is cold – a SAGO dish with big spoon of gooseberry jam to dish to every helping … An open APPLE tart … small jugs of cream … Local Beers, ales = WINES golden or deep red … Teas Indian or of China = good fresh ground Coffee bought that afternoon … Some preserved fruits … and perhaps Ginger preserved in syrup, semi-sweet biscuits … ALL IN THE GREAT KITCHEN of the once 17th century farmhouse ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1935 CLACTON a former Dames school house we plan to make a town museum … my young father FREDERICK JOHN RANSOM b November 1911 is a SOLDIER Royal Fusiliers and has been managing his Aunt`s Estate overseas THOMAS Immanuel GROTE HOMES helping her with this round the Globe philanthropy begun by her late husband TIGGY and we are ALL in training for this work of wonder a miracle gold ring twice around the world and a delicate flower garden … RECORDS on www are first posted by me 31st January 2011 his CENTENARY … www.greta-ransom.com … and on other sites continuing