Vivienne Nancy Price

Mafeking

Herbert Henry Price

Lillian Amy Young

Young

Lavinia

Merrie

Betty

Cynthia

Barbara

Johannesburg, SA

General Notes

When Nancy was about 2 years old she was standing with one foot on a cart/pram and the other on a wall. The pram moved and Nancy did the splits and injured her hips. She was told to keep quiet so as not to disturb her strict father. The injury seems to have been played down. TB set into the injured hip resulting in lots of treatments and operations. She was cured while still quite young. Soon after the family were on trip to Cape Town and were staying at the Gardens. Doctors orders were strictly "no strenuous exercise" so that she could recuperate properly. Her brother Merrie wanted to show her something, and unbeknown to her parents the two went for a walk. She couldn't walk so far and collapsed. Merrie had to carry her back. Unfortunately this led to the restart of her TB problems. The TB left her with a stiff shortened leg. She had many operations, both in South Africa and the UK, including one to insert a steel pin into the hip to lengthen the shorter leg and make walking easier. This operation was only done after the birth of her two daughters, probably around mid 1950's.
Nancy lived with her parents in Mafeking on the Imperial Reserve intil 1936 when her father retired. She styed on In Mafeking, staying in an hotel, for another two years. In 1938 she joined her parents at Untali. At that time they were living at "Drumfed", just outside Umtali. Sometime between 1939 and 1940 her father "discovered" Ellerslie. This was a piece of land that was in Mozambique, but was leased by Rhodesia.
In 1940 she met William Glass, a civil engineer working on the water system for Umtali. The got enganged in June and a short two weeks later were married at Ellerslie.

Education Details
- Vivienne attended.
  - Education Notes
    - Due to all her TB problems Nancy was not able to go to school and thus only started attending school when she was 10. The first School she attended was in Port Alfred and she had to travel alone by train to get there. The family remembers her telling stories about that frightening trip, as she could not read the station names and was not sure she would get out at the right station.
      Received her Junior Certificate (Std 8) in 1928 after only 5 years of schooling. She attended Convent high School in Mafeking.
      In 1932 she received a shorthand certificate.

Occupation Details
- - Occupation Notes
    - She left school early to earn money and help put her brother, Merrie through university. She got a sectretarial job with the Government Engineers office in Mafeking. She continued working in Mafeking after her father had retired and moved to Umtali, Southern Rhodesia. In July / August of 1938 she to moved to Umtali. She continued secretarial work in Umtali until she met and maaried William (Bill) Glass.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Herbert Henry Price
  - b.05 Dec 1893 d.28 Sep 1960
  
  Vivienne Nancy  Price
  - b.28 Mar 1912 in Mafeking d.25 Nov 2001 in Johannesburg, SA
  
  Young
  
  Lillian Amy Young
  - d.23 Feb 1966
  
  Lavinia

Vivienne Nancy Price

Education Details

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Ancestor Pedigree Chart