Reverend Gee

click 1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green for the local part of his autobiography.

click The Vicars of St.John's Chuch of Lacey Green for list

Richard Gee was the Vicar at Lacey Green from 1922 to 1929

Hallmark report about the early days of the Village Hall from 1924. Dances were popular. These dances were at first attacked from the pulpit.  The Vicar, the Reverend Gee, warning his young congregation that to attend these Saturday night jollifications would make them not eligible for his Confirmation Class.

Extract from the autobiography of Douglas Brett. "My mother became Cook Housekeeper to the Vicar Reverend Gee and his wife.  They had been Missionaries in India before coming to Lacey Green.

It meant early rising, especially in winter, when it would be quite dark on leaving home (Well Cottages) We would stumble round Church Lane, through a small spinney into the Vicarage grounds, our way lit by a candle in a lantern.   On arrival to the Vicarage my first job was to pump water from the well (tank) to fill a tank in the house. The range would be lit and when hot enough I would take a long fork and make the toast for the Vicar’s breakfast.   Mother and I would then go to the dining room, kneel down and join the Vicar for prayers after which I had my own breakfast and then school.    We didn’t leave the Vicarage until after the evening meal.

Mother’s health was not very good and Mrs Gee, I believe, was largely responsible for persuading her to allow my brother Stanley to go to Dr Barnardo’s Home, which caused us considerable anguish.   When he was 12 or 13 he came home for 2 or 3 weeks summer holiday and Barnardo’s made the shock announcement that on his return to London they would send him to Australia.    Mother refused to send him back in spite of threats of legal action.  He returned briefly to St. John’s School in Lacey Green until old enough to leave school in1931."

Daphne Bristow told Rosemary Mortham that the Reverend Richard Gee had been a missionary in India, and the children were allowed to try on the costumes which he had brought back.

Phyllis Adams (click Bill & Phyllis Dell for more about Phyllis) could not remember there being a Church Choir in Rev. Gee's day.

Further extract from the autoiography of Douglas Brett. "When the Revered Gee left Lacey Green, my family moved with him to Olney for 2 years or so.   We then returned to Well Cottage in Church Lane. Lacey Green.