Winnifred Spurgeon talks with Roy Spurgeon
Conversation between Aunt Winnie & Roy Spurgeon, Sacremento, California, March 1968.Winnie: As I understood it his (Robert) mother (Harriet) was an ordained Methodist, minister, our own father's.
Roy: Your own mother & fathers mother?
Winnie: Father's mother, yes, that's right.
Winnie: Except mother (Sarah) used to tell me how she used to put on these boots, right up to her knees and walk through the snow to preach on Sunday morning.
Roy: And where did she live?
Winnie: Now, somewhere in Norfolk or Norwich or somewhere. I don't know just exactly where. And that's all it say in here.
Roy: Yes, well, I've got a feeling that we come from the other side of the family, you know. I've never worked this out, but Charles Haddon Spurgeon was one of a family of eight. Of at least eight. There were six sisters who survived, whether the others died I don't know. There were six surviving sisters, there was him, and there was James Arthur Spurgeon, who was born 3 years later than him, in 1837. I think we come from that side of the family, I don't know, I'm only guessing, but I think we might. But it's extraordinary that the names are very similar all the time, because the reverend Thomas apparently had a son called Harold. I don't know anything about him, it's just mentioned in passing.