Emily Trussel

Emily Trussel was my great great grand mother. She was born in Enfield in 1889.

She had 2 sisters and 2 brothers.

Before the first world war, she met her husband in England.

He was a French student, Pierre Girault, coming in England to study horticulture.

They fell in love. He came back to France with her and they married few months after.

They have had a baby girl called Yvonne, born in december 1913.

But in 1914, Pierre had to go as a soldier in the 1st World War.

He died in january 1915.

Emmy stayed in France with her baby.

She used to be a seamstress to earn money.

Later, she gave English lessons to rich families in Brévannes. She was very kind and intelligent. She spoke French easily with a smart English accent!

She married a second husband in 1947.

She died in 1971.