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Case 1294

6. Letter from Mrs Bere to Revd Edward Rudolf 6 November 1895

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and there is no one older in the parish who would undertake the charge with we should like to place her. L Peglar's son & his wife (E "Daddy" & "Auntie") would like to keep her & are most kind to her, but she is a Dissenter as are all her family who live with her. I feared there was no alternative but to return her to the Society, but I wrote to the grandmother, Mrs. -- I am glad she seems willing to take the child, but she asks if the Society will give her a little help towards her maintenance? Just at present I am afraid she & her husband are in a good deal of trouble, for when she wrote her husband's master for who he had worked for 25 years, had died a few

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