Lydia wished very much to return however Edw’d did not like it, and I believe her nerves would have been quite overcome. Regardless of this, Henry’s marriage was not lengthy delayed and on Tuesday twentieth January 1818 Edward Marsh data: ‘I walked with Lydia to church, and married Henry to miss Coldham. On sixth February, ‘I acquired a letter from Henry Williams, saying, “We commenced final evening our family devotions; and as my wife is equally anxious with myself for the observance, we again repeated them this morning.” He replied, saying, ‘It gives me nice pleasure to hear of your graduation of household-prayer, which (I belief) won’t ever meet with interruption.’ This seems to mark Henry’s formal conversion to anglicanism. Dr Wylde afterwards asked Mr Heathcote to fulfill him and take heed to the chimes, ‘of his personal accord, because it sho’d appear, & not at my suggestion,’ on which he then agreed to Mr Heathcote making the mandatory changes.
And for those who meet an American woman who’s into the anime, odds are she’s into pretty boy on fairly boy motion as nicely. We discovered your Uncle Marsh quite well and in good spirits; however your poor uncle Henry I feel a great deal altered. In the evening young Heathcote, the organist, who was now paying his addresses to my niece Catherine, got here in about 8. when we had some music, during which my nephew William sung the bass, through which method we spent the latter a part of many of the evenings I spent there.’ On the Sunday (22nd) Marsh went to the church service but was much put out by the best way the bells played the tune ‘God save great George’ and provided to change it to that of the 104th psalm or else to take out the superfluous notes in the present tune, however Dr Wylde, the prebendary in residence, declined his proposal.
The rationale for these continued attendances of Mr Heathcote, was not merely on account of his musical abilities, but due to his now being a obtained admirer of my niece Catherine, to whom he had transferred the addresses he had once paid to her Sister Mary (Rebecca). In May 1824, Marsh was staying in London and on Tuesday 18th, ‘I went to Islington & dined at my nephew J. Williams’s where my grandaughter Harriett was now staying whom my Sister had been obliged to dismiss from Southwell at the start of the 12 months, on account of her having been detected in flirting with one of the Hutchinsons, Son of the Surgeon there, & assembly him at evening within the garden. It seems counterintuitive: Early-morning sunlight helps you sleep at evening. If you’ve got some particularly fashionable associates or roommates, coax them into lending you some half-first rate threads for the night.
The letter is headed ‘Residence Home, Southwell. The George Hodgkinson that Mary Williams mentions in her letter was the son of George Hodgkinson junior. The Sutton Barrow that Mary Williams refers to above was the daughter of Mary, eldest daughter of George Hodgkinson senior and his wife Mary. The Barrows ultimately took over the legal follow founded by George Hodgkinson senior. However, as famous earlier, Mary Williams had vacated the Old Palace by early 1831 and her reference to Kate and Edward ‘on the inexperienced’ suggests that perhaps Mary had relinquished the reins by then, possibly following the wedding of Catherine to Edward Heathcote in October 1827. Her sojourn at ‘The Residence’ can only have been a brief one, so there remains an unexplained hole in her story. It would appear possible, subsequently, that when she wrote the letter she was staying with her daughter and son-in-legislation whilst E.G.Marsh was fulfilling his obligations as the Canon ‘in residence’ however, because of the alterations she describes at the Old Palace, she must have left there a while before.
