After our trip to New Zealand for my Grandmother’s funeral, I arrived home with the Hamilton Family Bible.  Dorothy as the oldest of the Hamiltons’ and my Grandfather’s sister had the bible and she left it to my father, so I now have the honour of keeping it safe.

With anything old, it needed a few repairs.  So I took it to a book restorer and was impressed with the results.

They had to replace the spine of the book so they made it into a bookmark.  

During my conversations with the book restorer I found out that around the time of this bible, families would pre order and also pay off their bible as they go and they would receive the parts of the bible they had paid for only.  Nowadays we would put it on the credit card and then complain about having too much debt.

I am not a religious person, but I understand how important it is to people and to have a faith and I use this often in life.

Matthew 7:12

“In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you.  For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets.”

The Bible I have inherited contains the notices from the paper on deaths and births so I will be continuing this tradition.