Trowbridge June 5 1849
My Dear Brother and Sister
We received a letter from you in aprill 1848 and was very hapy to hear from you and that you and your wife and children was all well which this leaves us all at preasent thank God for it We are also hapy to hear that you are so well provided for in this world and preapering for the Eternal World for it is time for us all to preapere for in the midst of Life we are in Death My poor dear father died sudenlly on feby 19 1844 We have buried our dear blind boy He died in a decline after 15 months illness on the 27 of December 1845 and was buried the first Sunday in 1846 His funeral sermon was preached the next Sunday from the words Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth He died very hapy and there is no other doubt but what he is now with his Lord and Saviour uncle townsend died sudently aunt is liveing still Mrs Hintons Martha her daughter and all are dead your Mother is dead and
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left all she had to her sister We rote several letters to her but had no answer My Dear Brother we have been brought through a great maney trials and afflections since we saw you last but we are still alive and out of Hell which is a Mercy our William is returned to England again and has been home to see us twice He is now living in Liverpool Little Sarah is grown quite a woman she is biger than ever i was She was 22 ys old the last april very steady girl John is married and lives in Warminster he has got 2 boys and 1 girl he is working at the Cabinet trade Henery is married and living in Trowbridge his wife is lately confined with a little girl James is at work for the same Master as John Samuel is at home at preasent with his father and Alfred one you never saw and the 2 girls our youngest is 11 ys old and it is a great Blessing for us they all turn out very steady But trade is very bad in England and try how we will we can hardly get a liveing it was so bad in Frome we left and it is almost so bad here as it is there your Brother have tried
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every place he can think of and every thing and it is no good for we can hardly get a bit of bread and cheese and it is the openioun of maney people that it will never be aney better in England. and people are leaving England very fast and in particular old people because they wount be parted in the Workhouse in their old age your Brother have been trying for this year to get money enough to come to you but it is imposible here for trade is so bad and the wages so very low to what it was when you left England and i wish we had left than Dear Brother if you will be so kind as to lend us money enough to come to you we will come as quick as posible and you may depend on being paid the money again after we are there please God we should live through the journey for they all know the way to work there would be 6 or 7 of us that have made up our minds to come to you if posible we can dr Brer please to answer this letter as soon as it is conveniente as we received no answer from our last letter written in May 1848 in which i told you many things i have not in this Still i have much to say to you both but if it should please God that we should see other face to face it will
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be better than riteing the potatos are affected again this year this is the 4 year none hardly fit to eate poor rates 3 shillings to the pound We dread the Winter We should be glad to come to you this Sumer if we can and and if we come please to send us word what we had better bring with us for it depends entirely on you about our coming for we canot save aney thing in Engd for to go aney where or for old age Please to excuse your Brother for not riteing him self for you very well know that he wount rite to any one but he longs to see you both and the dear children My dr B and Sister I must conclude with each of our love to you Wishing the blessing of God may rest upon you all Some more from your every loving
Brother and Sister
Thos & Mary Shore
Please direct to
Thos Shore
Cabt Maker
Hilperton Road
Trowbridge
Wilts