A WONDERFUL WOMAN

Evening Star, Issue 19089, 5 November 1925, Page 12

A WONDERFUL WOMAN

FAMILY OF TWELVE AND SAVES £2,000. HOUSEWIFE’S THRIFT. To save £2;000 and to bring up a family of twelve children out of wages which did not exceed £4 a week up to the war and £7 to £lO a week during the war is an achievement credited to a Liverpool family in the report for 1924 of the Chief Registrar for Friendly Societies,

The money had been largely saved out of the housekeeping allowance by the late Mrs Honeyman, of 30 River Avon street, Lodge lane, and she had banked it in the children’s names. Difficulties arose owing to the money having been banked in the names of the children, Mr Honeyman claiming that it belonged to him. The Registrar decided in favor of Mr Honeyman’s claim. A compassionate allowance of £SO to each of the children concerned was made. Mr Honeyman, a Scotsman, of Kirkcaldy, seventy years of age, gave all the credit to" his wife. Long ago, he stated to a ‘ Weekly Post ’ representative, he lost £IOO in a business venture, and after that he left the management of the money to the “ missus.” He had no idea of the amount she had put by until she was on her deathbed. Mr Honeyman married his wife when he was twenty and she a year younger. After ■u'orlnng in Glasgow as a lithographic printer he came to Liverpool, and was a manager with Messrs Blake and Mackenzie, and was also for a time with Lever Brothers. He became a technical teacher of lithography, first at the Shaw street College and then at the Corporation School ol Science. Of the twelve children ten are still living, throe hoys and seven girls. All but one girl are married. One son is secretary to the director of Swift’s, the moat firm, in Montevideo, another in Aden; but the majority of the family are in Liverpool. They all went to Scffon Park School. “ People think it is a terrible thing to have a largo family,” he added; “but when they grow up and go to work they all help. That is partly how we managed to save so much. My wife had no regular plan. _ She just put the K°ney aside as occasion arose.”