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She was the ninth of ten children. Her mother died giving birth to number ten, a little girl called Mildred, who died as a motherless infant. Until age twelve, Rosa Dorothea was simply parcelled up and handed around from family member to family member in and around Herefordshire and Wales. She always maintained that she had never been to school, and this may—or, more likely, may not—be the whole truth. Widely read and fully literate, there was every indication of a reasonable education somewhere along the line. Eventually, she was ‘saved’ by her much older sister, Agnes.
Agnes had come to New Zealand around the time of my mother’s birth as nursemaid and then nursery governess to the Levin family of mercantile fame and fortune. She was a good-looking young woman and clearly had her eye to the main chance. For fifty years I have worn a gold signet ring of hers, given to her at the outbreak of World War I by the
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