Neville says he can recall many things vividly at the age of three and four, yet he cannot recall his mother except as a mature lady -- even though she must have been only twenty-one or twenty-two when she bore him (he was the fourth of a large family) and no more than about thirty when he himself was seven. Told in the lecture 'Christmas: The Gospel Proclaims an Event' (nid 1869, delivered 1969-12-08).
Date (happened)
between 1908 and 1909
unresolved
between 1908 and 1909
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
This passage (547487) is also cited by sibling hist_event:1716 ('Reflected on his mother's age when he was seven') for an adjacent remark in the same paragraph; the two events describe different parts of the same reminiscence, not a duplicate.
Reasoning
Neville states his own age (three and four) for these earliest vivid memories. Applying his birth year of 1905 (a well-established biographical fact, not asserted by this passage itself) gives an approximate span of 1908-1909 for that age range. Estimated, not stated, since the passage gives an age, not a calendar year, and 'three and four' is itself an approximate self-description of early childhood.
Told / reported
8 December 1969
stated
Reasoning
The preferred claim [d0] is only probable (a dateline read verbatim without a source entity); the non-preferred claim [d1] independently re-confirms the same date from the Pass-0 revision diff, resolves the rival 1967-12 estimate's unstated assumption, and is explicitly elevated to certain and 'confirmed' state -- so [d1], not the preferred [d0], is the stronger claim (the corpus's own trap-1 pattern).