As I am reviewing my English genealogy and going through old boxes of data I received and maybe looked at years ago, in preparation to a trip to England this fall, I am still finding new letters and data. Here are the latest letters [This post has 2 letters, the next will have 2 more] Thank goodness someone in the family kept all these!!!!! I'll post photocopies later.
1. Letter from Ann Sparks Holmes to her niece Elizabeth Sparks Edwards. Photocopy of letter received from Patsy Davies. Transcribed by Susan Fairchild Barry 23 Jul 2022 . As always my comments are in [ ] and any transcription unknowns are given. All spellings are as in the original....
Burley Dec 17 1892 [ Burley in Wharfedale?]
Dear Neice
I write these few
lines to you hoping
this letter will find
you and your family
all well. You have oft
wanted a letter from
me to know how I was
coming on. I am very well
to say at 70 years old
plenty to do to get on.
with the help of a few
good friends
[page 2]
Dear niece I could
like to hear from
you also. and you
will oblige me
cetainly by writing
to No 6 Iron Row
Burley -In- Wharfe
dale
Wishing you all
a merry Christmas
and a happy new
year when it comes
[page 3]
so no more at
present from
your Aunt
Mrs Ann Holmes
No 6 Iron Row
Burley in Warfdale
near Otley
Yorkshire
2. Letter from John Morell to his cousin Elizabeth Sparks Edwards . Letter photocopy received from Patsy Davies. Transcribed by Susan Fairchild Barry 23 July 2022. As always comments and unknowns are in [ ] .
Leeds England Feb 18th 1872
Dear Cousin
It is a pleasure for
me to write to you hoping it
will find you in good health as
it leaves us pretty well at present
Dear Cousin I dare say that
will not know me but I am
your Aunt Elizabeth's Son &
my name is John I am turned
18 years of age my father left us
when my grandmother Died &
was away 8 years [& 9 ?] months&
then they brought him home
ill & he had the Deliriums
& he recovered & was at home
about one year & he Died
but I am very happy to say
he was prepared for another
world I am the only one
[ page 2]
my mother [has?] but [ rest illegible]
we have had our share of trouble. I say
Cousin I never got your letter before the
11th day of February I was over at Burley
I went over to see my Aunt Jane for she
has been very ill in the Rhuematic but
she is on the recovering side again.
She showed me your letter & I read it
& I said that I would bring it
home and read it to my mother & then
I would answer it as I thought that
it was time some of us answered.
for I think you will think that
it is very bad behavior but I
never knew anything about it
until I saw it at Burley.
Dear Cousin you mention my
Cousin Thomas Footer I hope that
[page 3]
he is doing well it is such a long
period since I heard from him
do you ever see him if you do ask
him to write to us & let us know
how he is going on in America
& what he is doing. My Aunt Jane
desires me to give her kind regards
to you she cannot write herself
& when she wants a letter ^writing to us
at Leeds she has to ask other
people to write for her & they
think it too much trouble to
write a long letter & it is no
use to write a short letter into
America. My Aunt Ann is
quite well & she is living at
Burley & for my Uncle William
I never hear anything from
[Page 4]
him My aunt was very ill
about one year since & when
we went to see her my Mother
& me & when we came away
they said they would write to
us & let us know how she was
but they have never wrote
to us yet I think I have said
all me & my Mother sends
our best respects to you all hoping
that if we cannot meet in this
world we shall meet in
heaven at last. please to
answering this letter as soon
as you can Believe me Dear
Cousin to remain your ever
Affectionate Cousin John
{written up side of page 4]
PS Please to direct your letter
to Leeds as follows.
John Morell
please to excuse Lamberts Yard Briggate
all mistakes Leeds
& the writing Yorkshire
England
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