Bagillt,
January 6, 1854
Dear Children,
I take the pleasure of sending a few lines to you in the
beginning of this new year as the Almighty has presented us with great hopes
that it will be better than the old, but, thank God for it, I can inform you
that we don’t recollect such weather as it is at present hear [sic] not for
many years, that is for frost and snow.
We hope that these few lines will find you all enjoying the best of
health as these leaves us just as usual, thanks be to God for it, only I was
myself in more pain with my ___ before this ruff [sic] weather than I had been
for some months.
We were very glad to hear in yours of the 12 ult. that you
were all well in health, and as we have been sending backwards and forwards
about the house, we cannot give you greatly satisfaction upon the subject just
yet, for when I went to apply about the license I could not get it until such
time that the house was finished up, and then it was to be all in one house and
then open from one end to the other, and that I must set no part of it whatever. Therefore we shall try to let you know more in
our next, but he says that he must get five and twenty pounds for all,
therefore we think sometimes not to meddle with it at all for it is very large
and we could never furnish it up. For
one thing, it’s the finest house through the whole place by far. It looks more like a gentleman’s hall at
present than anything else, and as everybody calls it so stone finished in the
front and ruffcasted every inch of it all around, and we have eight large
windows in the front and a stone wall from our door all around up to Tom Evan’s
houses, and another from the corner of our house round the corner up to David
Jones the broker’s house. It will be a
comfortable house now to a certainty and all I should wish with all my heart
would be that I could find something for to do in it that would be a little
easyer [sic] for your mother than it is, for she works to hard as she is, but
howsomever we shall see if all is well, how things will get on after the place
is finished. Well I have told you a good
deal upon that subject.
Another thing I have, as I am sorry to relate to you, that
we have buried your uncle John Parry of Caerwys. He died on the 9th of December and
they buried him on Thursday 15th.
Your mother and your brother James was there in the funeral that we both
could not leave the house together, and Mr. Faulks was so kind as to send his
horse and dray the Sunday following to go there to church, and they were very
glad to see us for I myself was not there since we buried your
grandmother. And another thing, they
have buried old Robert Gavies, king of Coleshill. I could not go there for your brother was
endeavoring to bury your uncle for it was one day before they buried your uncle.
I have another thing that is a
little trouble on my mind. That is about
your brother James. That is he only
works three quarters and often stops a day now and then besides, and as far as
I can understand that they did not care if half the men was to go away anywhere,
and they are talking of turning most of them away but I don’t know. We have got him to walk home this week and we
have put him at the right school with Mr. Saunders and he talks sometimes of
going away somewhere, and we have persuaded to write to his brother Edwin to
see what he would say to him, and you can see what he says in that for I don’t
know, but we know this, that both your mother and myself could make ourselves very comfortable if it would be that
you and your brother could make it convenient and find him employment and send
for him out this next spring, for I can assure you that your mother has never
received one penny more from him since your brother came over, only 4/s one
week and ¼ after. So you can see how it
is. Therefore we should think it the
greatest of blessing if it was possible that it could be done.
I must conclude for the present, with
a great many blessings to you all from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
I must write a few lines to your
brother Edwin, and all your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects to
you all. Kisses o-o-o-o for little M. A.
Ellen and your mother sends a great big one for Elizabeth. So we wish you a
happy new year and a great many of them.
Write soon again.
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