Diary Of Susan Woodman
Transcribed from 'The Island Magazine'.  Fall/Winter 1976:3
Edited by David Weale

People in the Diary

Charlie Woodman - Susan's Husband
George - Charlie's brother
Emily - George's wife 
Kate - Charlie's sister who lived with Susan and Charlie
Mr. Forbes - Rector of the Church of England
Elsie - Mrs. Forbes' daughter
Seymour and Will - men hired by the Woodmans
Agnes - lived with the Woodman family; no relation
the girls - Cathy and Anne, Susan and Charlie's daughters

The account which follows is a short, edited excerpt from the diary of Mrs. Susan Woodman of Alberton. Susan was the wife of Charlie Woodman who, in partnership with his brothers, George and Tom, owned a store in Alberton and a factory at Kildare Capes. It is an unpretentious yet informative chronicle of some of the events in the life of this one family and their friends during the month of December 1895.