GOING through some old papers of my late father, Edward Congdon, Gerrard Press Printers, of Falmouth I came across an autograph book, which has been passed around a number of homes in the Falmouth area and in which people have left their little rhymes.

This is not done today, but I believe it was common many years ago. I think it may have belonged to my grandmother, Lydia Congdon.

The following signatures are written in the book and may be of some interest to anyone locally who is compiling a family tree.

It is such a pleasure to read these little verses, written in their personal hand all those years ago.

S V Klute, October 27, Nancy Adams, Furzebrook, February 14, 1915; W Dunstan, May 30,1917; Clarissa Madge Mitchell, February 14, 1915; Annie Congdon, September 10, 1916 (my great aunt); A Leach, August 12, 1915; M Richards, Woodlane, Falmouth; J Rose, 13 Hut, Pendennis Castle, RGA Falmouth, November 28, 1916; Agnes Leonora Rodgers, February 14, 1915; L Jane, St Cuthberts, October 30, 1917; R L Congdon, August 19, St Johns College, Agra, India, (one of my relations); R Warren, Kerris Vean, Falmouth; M A Belch (or Birch), July 25, 1916; E M Edwards, November, 1915, Kerris Vean, Falmouth; Liliace Tulett, August, 1915; F Sutton, Kerris Vean, Falmouth, September 5, 1916; Lilly Laity, Haven, Cliff Road, Falmouth, May 30, 1917; L Dimble, Falmouth, April 29, 1917; F Berryman, Gyllingvase House, Falmouth, November, 1915; A G Thomas, November 30, 1916 (the little rhyme was written in both short and long hand); M J Rhynas,; Gertrude Cissie Seviour; Mary Adelaide Reader, Minnie Cottage, Falmouth; Elsie J Bradfield, November 19, 1920; M Philby, Kerris Vean, Falmouth; M Philby, Ellesboro Rectory, Butlers Cross, July 13, 1916; Gladys M Purssell, July 29, 1915; M Barnicoat, Kerris Vean, March 22, 1917; Scotia; E G W, August 11, 1917; K Terry, April 11, 1917; H Congdon, 19th Canadians, December 30, 1917, (my great-uncle Harold who spent most of his life in Canada, and died some years ago at Wellington Terrace, Falmouth); J M B, June 29, 1917; Ethel G Dickinson, August 20, 1917; E G, June 28, 1917; C Moore, June 30, 1917; Janet Ayre (or Ayse), September 4, 1917; M M Drignam, December 26, 1917; A G Lewon, October 19, 1920; Fred Jane, St Cuthberts, October 30, 1917; E Wheeler Wilerse.

Mervyn and Lizzie Congdon, Queen Anne Gardens, Falmouth