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Case 795

12. Letter from A's employer describing her service of almost 40 years with the same family 3 December 1927

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4 Costwold Road
Clacton on sea
3rd Dec. 1924

To the Secretary of The Church of England Society "Waifs Strays" London
Sir,

I am writing on behalf of A who entered the service of my father & mother forty years ago today - when they died, she remained on with me, so its forty years in one family, I think this is almost a record is it not? When she had completed fourteen years, your Society sent her a Certificate for faithful service, at twenty one years, they sent her a guinea. Mrs. Fitzgerald the Master at Wimbledon who trained her has unfortunately passed on, but I believe the Rev. Rudolf

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