In Search of a Glemsford Family
Susanna's Letters - 2
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March 5 1896 |
Hunts Hill |
Glemsford, Sk |
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My dear daughter, i received your letter and i am very glad that you are well and doing well.
Rillo rote and told us about his place it is a good one to start with i hope it will not turn out like the other.
I wish Alvah was in a place for he is so hearty so I cant get anything all that is what keep me so weak when I have anything
to eat of drink i feel better but your father dont like me to tell you but i cant help it i hear you have seen the big wheel
it is nice for him to have the Sunday to hisself so he can see you if you cant get out. My dear daughter I must now tell you
that you got a housemaid coming up with Mrs and Master on Satturday and it is Hannah Cook on the Hill so Father say you must
not say anything to her about the missus affairs to her so Mrs Savage told you about Ethel and Olive you would not know Olive
she grown out of things she hasnt got a pinniefore for her only what you sent her the 2/11 you sent me I bought a feather
bolster nice one for the money but it was cheap and they had a little oirn bedsted spring bottom all have seen it never saw
one like it i have got to give her 5/6 i paid 6d over it is well when one of you come home your Father says he would not take
10/- for it the children are about the same & the trade is the same when he earns it I have it. |
[The handwriting changes here] I shall have to get Gershom to finish the letter for I have nothing more to say at present,
by now I must conclude |
with love to you loving father and mother George Brown.
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- Hannah Cook is not immediately obvious on the 1891 Census, either in Glemsford or beyond. However, in 1881 Abraham and Harriet Cook, on Hunts Hill, had a 5 year old daughter Hannah, who may be a candidate.
- Unfortunately, Abraham and Harriet are also "missing" in 1891, but were resident on Hunts Hill in 1901, aged 74 and 68 respectively.
- We do not know exactly where Araminta was when this letter was written, but the reference to the Master and Mrs (George and Emma Savage) seems to
suggest she was working for them at their "hotel" in London.
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We do know that, in 1891, Araminta had been living at Brick Kiln, Glemsford, which, from the evidence of later letters, was the home of the Savages,
although they are recorded at 60 York Road, Waterloo - "The Trafalgar" - at the time of that census.
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We think this was Susannah's last letter to Minnie.
There are references to her being unwell.
Sadly, the Sudbury registers for the June quarter of 1896 refer
to the death of Susannah Brown.Tracey has also located 3 other Brown children: Mercy, born and died February/March 1883; Alice Maud, born September 1886, buried February 1887, and Herbert,
born 17 August 1894, buried 15 September 1894. Life, as they say, was hard. |
© Tracey Foulds, Sandra Poole and Stephen Clarke
September 5 2005
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