Z1656/7/2a

Letter from John Turner, Milton Ernest to Thomas Turner, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America

3 December 1839

From: 1839-12-03 To: 1839-12-03

Comments on the cost of postage and thanks him for writing to their father. Comments that now sleeps in the Old Back room and sleeps better there than he did at the Bakehouse Father's health is stable though "he continues lame without any prospect of being better." Comments on the health of Elizabeth who "...will take no exercise nor food only in the evening when she eats hearty." Death of the Duke of Bedford "...greatly lamented..." Death of Mr. Clayton aged 84 Death of Mr. John Fielding from Honeydon by injury from a chaff cutting machine. Weather has predominantly been rainy, and meadows have been almost continually flooded since Michaelmas Heard rumour that recipient has married Gives news of Queen Victoria summoning a Privy Council regarding intentions to marry Prince Albert Comments on the influence of Chartism on workers and wishes severe punishment on supporters. Whitbread Odell "...has become one of the most Drunken wretches in existence & both his own & his wife's family miserable." Complains that Whitbread Odell does not provide Ann and the children with enough money and abuses them. Ends letter stating that he has made a will and has given his property to Thomas and James Lamb upon trust for the use of Ann and the children, without control of husband, with James Lamb acting whilst Thomas is overseas.

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Turner, John,
Turner, Thomas,
Turner,
Russell, John (6th Duke of Bedford),
Fielding, John,
Odell, Whitbread,
Odell, Anne,
Lamb, James

MILTON ERNEST, New Brunswick, family correspondence, Honeydon, Chartists