Interviewed: Clare PerryQuestion: Clare, did you live in Digby all your life?Answer: No, I was born in Digby (in the Ganong house) but left when I was 6 months old. Then I lived in Weymouth for 5 years, then we moved back to Digby where we lived in Stewart Raymond's house at the corner where the Harr's live now. We lived there 3 years. We then moved to Conway where we lived ever since. Question: What did your parents do?Answer: My father was a judge probate and my mother was a school teacher. Question: So you took after your father?Answer: Yes. Question: How long were you a probate judge?Answer: I was a probate judge for 20 years. Question: Did you have to go for some sort of training?Answer: I trained under my father for 10 years. Question: Was it common for women to be working?Answer: No. Question: So you must have had a lot of respect.Answer: Yes. Question: Did you enjoy your work?Answer: Oh, I loved it!!! Question: So your father was a probate judge also. Did he enjoy his work?Answer: Yes, he was a magistrate and a probate judge and he was a magistrate in the town the county. Question: So your family would have been a well known family.Answer: Yes. Question: Do you remember the Gilpins at all?Answer: I met them. I knew Charlotte Gilpin. My father felt that women should be educated because they had children to bring up and if the women didn't know anything then children didn't know anything. He was pleased with me being a educated. Question: So it wasn't very common for women to be educated back then. Did you find that being a woman and being a probate judge you were a woman? Did they discriminate?Answer: No they didn't, not the people or the lawyers. They couldn't discriminate against me because they had to come to me for certain things. Question: Did you take part any other activities?Answer: Being a probate judge took up a lot of my time. Question: Did your mother like being a school teacher?Answer: Yes, she liked being a boss. Question: Was it acceptable for a woman to become a school teacher?Answer: Yes, Yes.