Bagillt, Jan. 2, 1864
Dear John,
I send these few lines to you in hopes they will find you
and family all well as these leaves both, your mother and myself, but very
sorry indeed, and you must excuse us for not sending sooner for we was
expecting to hear from your brother Edwin after we received your letter, and we
received a letter from him on Saturday last and telling us that they were all
well in health and sent their likenesses both of them and the two little
children, and that was all and said in his letter. He expected to hear from us on the receipt of
his letter and then he should send soon again, and we are sending to him the
same time as to you and sending his letter in his thinking that you may have it
better, and I’m in hopes that you will receive this for we have sent a good many
letters to you and him and neither of you getting them.
PS – Now I am turning to ourselves to inform you how it is
with us at the present. We have been forced
to leave the old house, for Mr. Faulks himself and family to go and live there
themselves for their family is getting very large, and now we are in lodgings
and getting three shillings per week from the parish since the commencement of
the new year. But we expect to have a
little place after a while with a bakehouse to it for to help us to live, or
else we don’t know what to do, and we are letting you know all of our
circumstances, how all things are, but we don’t tell these things to Edwin for
fear his wife should see the letter and that it should harm him with his wife’s
family, should we live to receive a letter from him again. We happen should know better how to send to
him. And as you was talking about your
brother James and who he married, I cannot tell whether you knew the family or not. They did call her father Hugh Hughes. Panty Crabus, she lived in Liverpool with the
same family about ten years and a very nice girl she was to, poor thing.
And the children has been with us for some time but was obliged to send
them off from us on account of applying to the parish. If we kept them we should have nothing and we
got to send then to your sister Louisa to Mostyn, for Robert is a gaffer plasterlayer
on a piece at Mostyn and they live very comfortable, and your brother James
live out in Galway in Ireland . He
manages a mill in for a master there. And
your sister Soph has just buried her eldest son now lately and it is very lone
on her indeed. And you sister Charlotte
lives in the Kings Arms, that’s the house as Chesters built, but very little business
at the present for it is sorry for all at Bagillt. Humphrey has been very ill indeed now this
seven weeks back but getting a little better this week, but he has a good place
of it. When he is at work he works
bricklaying work at Walkering Parker at Chester going of twelve years.
I should wish very much if you could have the kindness as to
send to your brother Edwin if he could to assist us in our present circumstances. We would be very thankful for we cannot think
of troubling you upon the account of all your troubles, and thank God that you
have had your lives and that it is as it is with you and no worse.
I must conclude for the present with our kind regards to you,
Elizabeth, the children and all and shall expect to have something from the
children and you soon again . And your
mother is ready to come see you all any day if the week if it was possible. It is no use then of me thinking of going
anywhere for I am too clumsy. I was not
from the old house as far as Bagillt village until now this three or four years
and now obliged to bring me on a hand barrow.
You must allow us this time for we don’t know what to say to you much for
we have been disturbed so much for the present.
And this from your dutyful father & mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
PS
- Send soon again if you please. We have been in great trouble with your
mother about all this trouble being in the place four and twenty years.
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