Rain more or less all day.
The children here go to the farmers’ houses on St Valentine’s day singing
“Good morrow Valentine
Please give us a Valentine,
First it’s yours and then it’s mine
Please give us a Valentine.”
Girls’ Confirmation Class at Vestry at 3 pm. Several absent on account of the rain.
Brighter morning with occasional showers.
Divine Service with Sermon at 7 pm.
Harriet Colegrave fell down in a fit this evening on the hill between Burdrop and Sibford Ferris, was carried home to her sister’s Mrs Turner where she died very shortly without recovering consciousness. She had been ailing for some time. A sister of hers died suddenly in Pound Lane eleven or twelve years ago. Richard Wilks who died suddenly a few weeks back was a cousin of hers.
Miss Sarah Dix called. Visited Jane Legge who was taken in a fit about an hour after H. Colegrave.
Paid a visit of condolence to Mrs Turner and Mr Fox.
Drove Bell and Frank this afternoon round Epwell, Shutford and Lower Tadmarton.
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Read about the Rev Edward Stevens here.
