Events involving this person
c. 0
(possible)
After seven years in which he ate no meat, fish or fowl, drank no alcohol, did not smoke and had no sex, his friend Abdullah told him he would 'die' before returning from Barbados; he lived three mont
c. 1
(probable)
He says his mother taught him, as the hearers' mothers taught them, that everything claimed of Christ happened two thousand years ago.
Neville recounts his parents' childhood romance and modest wedding
Description
Neville tells of his parents' romance — his father met his mother when she was three and he was eight, they married when she was eighteen — and of his father telling his little niece at her lavish champagne party that at his own wedding he could ill afford a half-pint of rum.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1895 and 1898
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Dreamer ¶9 (He said to my little niece, “So we give this fabulous party for you today, champagne is flowing like a river, everything. When I married your grandmother I could ill afford a half-pint of rum.”)
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville describes being raised in the Christian faith with Bible reading and Bible study as part of his schooling and Sunday School, and says neither his teachers, his mother, his father nor anyone he
1905
Neville tells how he got his name: when he was three weeks old his mother heard a voice say 'Call him Neville', and fifteen minutes later his uncle told her the same thing, though the name had never b
c. 1905
(probable)
Neville admits that as a child he pulled the wings off butterflies and flies, doing it when his father or mother was not around to stop him.
c. 1905
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados in a family of ten children with his grandmother at the table, his mother would have the cook coop up three ducks a week before Sunday and stuff them with corn and sour milk, beca
between 1905 and 1921
(probable)
Neville remembers his mother's beautiful garden in his childhood: she was passionately fond of it, always carried a parasol because she was so fair the sun blistered her, and directed her gardeners an
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
As a boy Neville had visions and knew from them that the priests and ministers his mother revered were talking nonsense, but he could never say so to his mother, for whom a priest was the wisest man i
between March 1905 and 1927
(probable)
Neville was baptized at three or four weeks old, and later, to please his mother who believed the child could not go to heaven otherwise, he took his two-year-old son to church to be baptized.
Broome recounts the voice that named the newborn Neville
Description
Broome's narration of a story Neville told: in March 1905 his uncle, climbing the stairs of a wooden frame house in Barbados to see his sister's newborn son, heard a voice say "His name is Neville", and the mother said she already knew.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
March 1905
between 1908 and 1922
Neville remembers his childhood Christmases: up at four for a five o'clock service, then home to the football and cricket set that was the family's communal present because his mother could not afford
between 1908 and 1909
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 3 + birth 1905 = 1908. Told 1 time (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
c. 1910
Neville first heard the Bible orally as a child: his mother taught it to him before he could read, then he was taught it at school and heard the story from the teacher at Sunday school.
between 1910 and 1918
(probable)
As a boy his family kept their clothes in cedar chests because his mother firmly believed no moth or bug would attack cedar wood.
between 1910 and 1915
(probable)
As a little child Neville wept before a huge painting of the massacre of the innocents that his mother had hanging in the living room, among other religious paintings she owned.
c. 1910
(probable)
Neville says that neither his mother, Sunday school, nor the church he attended as a boy in Barbados taught him that Christ is within him.
between 1910 and 1918
(probable)
As a child in Barbados he watched his fair-skinned, blue-eyed mother, shaded by a parasol, graft shoots onto other stocks in the garden every morning, six days a week, while the gardener did the diggi
c. 1910
As a child Neville watched his mother direct the gardener in grafting shoots onto her rosebushes, some grafts taking and blooming with the flower of the graft, others failing.
c. 1910
Neville recalls how, as a boy, the family charged everything and had goods sent home on approval, his mother returning shoes and clothes that did not fit or look right.
c. 1910
In his large childhood household his mother would send a boy to separate two ducks from the flock and fatten them on corn for two weeks; when Neville forgot and only did it a few days before Sunday di
c. 1910
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 5 + birth 1905 = 1910. Told 1 time (1967). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 1920 and 1929
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (?).
between 1908 and 1909
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.